Round Here Lyrics - August And Everything After - Counting Crows

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 

Maria says she's dying. 

Through the door, I hear her crying 

Why? I don't know 

'Round here we always stand up straight 

'Round here something radiates 

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand 

She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis 

And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land 

Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus 

She parks her car outside of my house, takes her clothes off, 

Says she's close to understanding Jesus 

She knows she's more that just a little misunderstood 

She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous 

'Round here we're carving out our names 

'Round here we all look the same 

'Round here we talk just like lions 

But we sacrifice like lambs 

'Round here she's slipping through my hands 

Sleeping children got to run like the wind 

Out of the lightning dream 

Mama's little baby better get herself in 

Out of the lightning 

She says, "It's only in my head." 

She says, "Shh, I know it's only in my head." 

But the girl on the car in the parking lot 

Says: "Man, you should try to take a shot 

Can't you see my walls are crumbling." 

Then she looks up at the building 

And says she's thinking of jumping. 

She says she's tired of life; 

She must be tired of something. 

'Round here she's always on my mind 

'Round here (hey man) I got lots of time 

'Round here we're never sent to bed early 

And nobody makes us wait 

'Round here we stay up very very very very late 

I can't see nothing, nothing 

Around here 

You catch me if I'm falling 

You catch me if I'm falling 

Will you catch me because I'm falling down on here 

I said " I'm under the gun" 

'Round here. 

Oh man I said "I'm under the gun" 

'Round here. 

And I can't see nothin', nothin'. 

'Round here.