Counting Crows > Quotes

“Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white,
and in between the moon and you,
the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
I walk in the air,
between the rain,
through myself and back again
where?
I don't know.”
― Counting Crows

“There's things I remember and things I forget. I miss you; I guess that I should.”
― Counting Crows

“If dreams are like movies, the memories are films about ghosts.”
― Counting Crows, Counting Crows - August & Everything After

“When everybody loves you. Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be!”
― Counting Crows, Counting Crows - August & Everything After

“Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings. And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring. And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything.”
― Counting Crows

“If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.”
― Counting Crows

“Rain King"

When I think of Heaven, deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of flying down in your sea of pens and feathers
And all other instruments of faith and sex and God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to feed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

And I belong in the service of the queen
And I belong anywhere but in between
She's been crying and I've been thinking
And I am the rain king

And I said, "Mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone"
'Cause I can't go outside, I'm scared I might not make it home
Well I'm alive, I'm alive, but I'm sinking in
If there's anyone at home at your place, darling
Why don't you invite me in?

Don't try to feed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

And I belong in the service of the queen
And I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying and I've been sinking
And I am the rain king

Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Henderson is waiting for the sun
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
After all the dreaming, I come home again

When I think of Heaven, deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of dying, lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to feed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

And I belong in the service of the queen
And I belong anywhere but in between
She's been dying and I've been drinking
And I am the rain king

Well I said that "I am the rain king"
Well I said, "I, I, I, I, I, well I am the rain king", yeah
Counting Crows, August & Everything (1992)”
― Counting Crows, Counting Crows - August & Everything After