Counting Crows "Mr Jones" Am F Dm G Sha la la la la la la . I was down at the New Amsterdam . Staring at this yellow-haired girl . Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation . With a black-haired flamenco dancer . She dances while his father plays guitar . She's suddenly beautiful . We all want something beautiful . Man I wish I was beautiful . So come dance this silence . Down through the mornin' . Sha la la la la la la la yeah . A Cut up, Maria! . Show me some of that Spanish dancin' . Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones . Believe in me . Help me believe in anything . 'Cause I wanna be someone who believes C F G Mr. Jones and me Tell each other fairy tales . And we stare at the beautiful women . "She's looking a . Ah, no, no, she's looking at me" . Smiling in the bright lights Coming through in stereo . When everybody loves you . You can never be lonely Am F Dm G Well, I'm paint my picture . Paint myself in blue and red . Black and gray . All of the beautiful colors . Are very, very meaningful . Yeah, well, . You know gray is my favorite color . I felt so symbolic yesterday . If I knew Picasso . I would buy myself . A gray guitar and play C F G Mr. Jones and me . Look into the future . Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women . "She's looking at you . I don't think so. She's looking at me" . Standing in the spotlight . I bought myself a gray guitar . When everybody loves me . I'll never be lonely F7M AM G I'll never be lonely . Son, I'm never gonna be lo___nely . I wanna be a lion . Everybody wants to pass as cats . We all wanna be big, big stars, yeah, . But we've got different reasons for that . Believe in me . 'Cause I don't believe in anything . And I, I wanna be someone to believe . To believe, to believe C F G Mr. Jones and me . Stumbling through the barrio . Yeah we stare at the beautiful women . "She's perfect for you . Man, there's got to be somebody for me" . I wanna be Bob Dylan . Mr. Jones wishes he was someone . just a little more funky . When everybody loves you . Oh, son . That's just' bout as funky as you can be C F G Mr. Jones and me . Staring at the video . When I look at the television . I wanna see me staring right back at me . We all wanna be big stars . But we don't know why and we don't know how . But when everybody loves me . I'll be just' bout as happy as I could be . Mr. Jones and me . We're gonna be big stars .