Scarecrow - Counting Crows

Mary steers clear of the men from space

Back alley kid with an American face

She wants the wine

He brings a case

To carry them on through

You know what I know about the bedroom boys

Undercover Russians in a pink Rolls-Royce

They bang the drum

She sets the beat

They carry Miss America out into the street

She sings «Snowman!

Scarecrow!

John Doe!

Buffalo!»

I wish you wouldn’t go

I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Snowman sideshow

I fell out of love in the snowbound days

Riding the subway in a Valium haze

I need the whites

She gets the blues

It carries us on through

All these American boys at the Park ‘n' Shop

Selling their memories for a dollar a pop

Ivan the ancient spaceman race fan

Corners the market on American tastes

And says «Spaceman!

Scarecrow!

Peepshow!

Freakshow!»

I wish you wouldn’t go

But I got the arms to reach you

I am a scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

That I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Punk rock video

All the sudden light inside you dies

Maybe you’re going on alone

Maybe you’re going all alone

She dreams of sunlight

Sings of smaller things

White sugar bowls and wedding rings

You’re going on from me alone

You’re going on

You’re on your own

She was married alive in a Moscow surgery

Hoping to die in a cold war nursery

All of the kids back home believe in much more than we do

It’s a memory play where the memory fades

Into pictures you took

Into records we played

Spy vs Spy

Scarecrow and I

Out across the darkness where the bomberjets fly

Singing «Spaceman!

Smokeshow!

Scarecrow!

Geronimo!»

I wish you wouldn’t go

I got the arms to reach you

I am a scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Snowman Freakshow

I wish you wouldn’t go

But I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

That I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Listen on the midnight radio