Palisades Park Lyrics - Somewhere Under Wonderland - Counting Crows

Somebody screaming on Jim Jeffries' dreams 

Explode into a black fist 

He falls to the floor 

He stares up at the sky 

And he may wish he knew why 

But you can't go back there no more 

The future sounds so crazy 

We all heard that song before 

Tomorrow's a name that changed from yesterday to blame 

When a train just don't stop here anymore 

I got starry eyed 

On a coaster ride 

Andy said, "Man, I need a break from the world outside" 

And these days my life just careens 

Through a pinball machine 

I could do so much better 

But I can't get off the tilt 

And there's a photograph on a TV, black and white 

And Andy says something to you 

Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like 

She says I could get myself sometimes, too 

But out past the doorways 

Where we are sleeping 

Well, the white queen's creeping 

The time cat's beeping 

Now I'm not breaking 

The train's just shaking 

I never made it here before 

And there's a wide mouth spinning the girls around 

Till they can't take it any more 

I used to dream in the dark, in Palisades Park 

Up over the cliffs and down among the spark 

It's a long life 

Been a long night 

But it's not what I was waiting for 

Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore 

It's a miracle they don't make them anymore 

So make up ladies 

Wake up baby 

You walked into the bar like some Saturday star 

Studs straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves 

And you're a downtown pride, fully amplified Clyde 

Gin-tied and Asian, but well preserved 

Remember Annie outside your bedroom window 

Saying, "Come on, let's drive across to the Palisades" 

Keep going till we hit Reno, Nevada 

I don't see it all that much these days 

Still there are pages in back of the action stacks 

Where the white queen's creeping 

The time cat's beeping 

The train's not breaking 

The track's just shaking 

I never made it here before 

And there's a sky rocket turning the world around 

Still I can't take it any more 

And you can carry that spark from Palisades Park 

Down over the cliffs and out into the dark 

It's a long life 

For a long night 

But it's not what I was looking for 

Everybody dreams of horses flying 'round the shore 

It's a bad dream we're not having anymore 

Man, have you seen Andy? 

Hey man, hey man 

Have you seen him around? 

Hey man, have you seen my Andy? 

Hey man, have you seen him have you seen her have you seen him have you seen her 

Have you seen Andy around? 

Dressed up in a pirate vest 

All leathers and feathers and pearls 

Andy said, "Look at me, man, I'm cooking 

These hands are gonna figure out this whole world" 

He said, "Come outside 

Climb out your bedroom window 

Shimmy down the fire escape 

And say goodbye 

Come outside" 

Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie 

Changing all the time 

My leopard spots to polka dots 

Say goodbye 

Come outside 

Where maybe we can move to California 

Just meet me at the subway 

And say goodbye 

Come outside 

The cops all think we're crazy 

If you steal, just get married 

To a girl who'll never know you 

And then say goodbye" 

Hey man, have you seen Andy? 

I lost her in the cirque 

I was high as a kite 

On a lovely and white 

Man, you can lose anyone 

Hey hey man, have you seen Andy? 

I don't know where she's gone 

Real love outlives teenage lust 

We could get wet and it keeps us warm 

Love is like angel dust 

Lovely sometimes changes us 

Sometimes we're not 

Have you been aching with trust or just 

Have you been waking yourself with lust 

Have you been making us up or just 

Taking us home 

It's a long wait 

And a long life 

Cars frozen in flight 

All the traffic stops to stare 

At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada 

Where nothing but air 

And a pair of gray paper wings 

Andy thinks, "I have got nothing to wear" 

We got nothing to wear 

We got nothing to wear 

We got nothing to wear 

We got nothing to wear