I Wish I Was A Girl
Counting Crows

The devil's in the dreaming
He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
With nothing to believe in
You dive into the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake
For all the things you're losing
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days.
The devil's in the dreaming
You see yourself descending from a building to the ground
You watch the sky receding
You spin to see the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised
And then you wake
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
But I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days.
In one of these dreams, you forgive me
It makes me think of the bad decisions that keep you at home
How could anyone else have changed?
All these wrong conclusions that leave you alone
How could everyone rearrange?
How could everyone else have changed?
What I see I believe
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
Well, I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find
crawling around my brain
I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days.
But I can't sleep at night


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Sheryl Crow   Amie   Amie (Pure Prairie League cover)   Amy Hit the Atmoshere   Amy Hit The Atmosphere   Angels In America   Angels of The Silences   Angels of the Silences [Live]   Angels of the Sliences   Anna Begins   Anna Begins [#]   Another Horsedreamer's Blues   Another Horsedreamers' Blues   Another Horsedreamers' Blues   Anyone But You   Atlantic City   August & Everything After   August And Everything After   Babies   Baby Blue   Baby I'm A Big Star Now   Baby, I'm A Big Star Now   Baby, I'm A Big Star Now   Back to Baltimore   Bad Time   Barely Out of Tuesday   Big Yellow Taxi   Big Yellow Taxi [*]   Big Yellow Taxi [Multimedia Track]   Big Yellow Taxi"(feat. 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