Hard Candy Lyrics - Hard Candy - Counting Crows

On certain Sundays in November 

When the weather bothers me 

I empty drawers of other summers 

An' where my shadows used to be 

She is standing by the water 

As her smile begins to curl 

In this or any other summer 

She is something all together different 

Never just an ordinary girl 

And in the evenings on Long island 

The colors start to fade 

She wears a silly yellow hat 

That someone gave her when she stayed 

I didn't think that she returned it 

An' we left New York in a whirl 

Time expands and then contracts 

When you are spinning in the grips of someone 

Who is not an ordinary girl 

An' when you sleep 

You find your mother in the night 

But she stays just out of sight 

So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming 

And when you wake 

The morning covers you with light 

And it makes you feel alright 

But it's just the same hard candy 

You're remembering again 

You send your lover off to China 

Then you wait for her to call 

You put your girl up on a pedestal 

Then you wait for her to fall 

I put my summers back in a letter 

And I hide it from the world 

All the regrets you can't forget 

Are somehow pressed upon a picture 

In the face of such an ordinary girl 

An' when you sleep 

You find your mother in the night 

But she fades just out of sight 

So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming 

And when you wake 

The morning showers you with light 

And it makes you feel alright 

But it's just the same hard candy 

You're remembering again again 

It's just the same hard candy 

You're remembering again 

Again an' again 

Again an' again 

Again 

And it's just the same hard candy 

You're remembering again 

Again an' again 

Again an' again 

Again 

And it's just the same hard candy 

You're remembering again 

Go ask her to come around 

And see me late after dark 

Don't ask me to come around 

Then wait to see if there's a spark 

Go ask her to come around 

And see me late after dark 

Don't ask me to come around 

Then make me wait to see the spark 

Go ask her to come around 

Later see me after dark 

Don't ask me to come around 

Then wait to see if there is a spark 

Go ask her to come around 

Later see me after dark 

Don't ask me