Shallow Days

Counting Crows

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 Mary-Jaine says its alright, she's just around the corner from the main line
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 Any day now, its alright. She's standing on the precipice of big time
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 And I know I'm a little up tight. I got to go before the sun shine
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 We're just a couple small people squeezing out a life. We need a little good time
 
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 Its not far from here.  Mary comes and goes.  Drifting through the 
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 scenery of shallow days below. And then as everybody knows you follow 
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 trains out of town and they vanish somewhere under the horizon Yeah well I saw 
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 Mary-Jaine drag her shadow down the tracks, stair of into the distance. 
 
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 Its not far from here.   Mary waves hello. Smiling though she's 
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 sinking in the shallow days below
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      I can't find the way out of here, out on the road again 
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 I'm much much too concerned about Mary-Jaine. I'm all alone again and
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      I like what she said, but not what it means. She leaves me drowning through the 
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 shallow days,    down below
           
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 I know I heard a band playing waltzes in a grange hall, the sun is sinking lower
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 People stair at Mary-Jaine humming softly to herself. Ain't nobody really knows her
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 And any day now its alright. She tells herself that this will be the last time
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 And Mary-Jaine pulls her hair back and wonders what she'll do with all the free time
 
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 Not too far from here.  Mary turns to go. Smiling while the 
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 waltz begins to dancin down the road, hey, hey
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 Hey hey Mr. Freedom, what are we supposed to think?
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 Cause I'm a very tiny person, and it worries me, out all alone again and
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      I like what she said but not what it means, she leaves me drowning in the 
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 shallow days      way down below
 
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 Hey, yeah yeah yeah...ooooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeeah yeah yeah yeah
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 I'm sorry. She said "I know, its not the kind of thing you want. I'm falling, falling 
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 down" I'm sorry. She said "I know, I'm not the kind of girl you want We're 
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 falling,   ooooooh
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 Falling,   oooooooooh
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 Falling,  falling down...