WHAT THE FUCK ANYONE WHO KNOWS A DAMN THING ABOUT MUSIC KNOWS THIS IS A COUNTING CROWS 
 SONG, AND IT PISSES ME OFF CUZ IM A BIG FAN AND THEY 9999999 BETTER THAN THE SPIN DOCTORS THEY ONLY HAD THAT ONE HIT WONDER 2 PRINCES I HOPE NO DUMBASS SEES THIS AN THINKS ITS A SPIN DOCTOR SONG CUZ IT AINT GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
{Intro}  
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Am     F     Dm     G                 Am      F         G  
                      sha la la la la la la      oooh     uh huh  
  
  
  
{Verse 1}  
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Am                    F          Dm                     G  
   I was at the New Amsterdam       staring at this yellow haired girl  
  
       Am                        F             G  
   Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black haired flamenco dancer  
  
            Am                   F              Dm                     G  
   You know she dances while his father plays guitar  she's suddenly beautiful  
  
           Am                 F           G  
   And we all want something beautiful      man I wish I was beautiful  
  
  
  
{Bridge}  
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            Am                F                       Dm  
   So come dance the silence down through the morning  
  
          G              Am         F        G  
   sha la la la la la la la  yeah              uh huh   yeah  
  
  
  
{Verse 2}  
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Am           F      Dm                         G  
   Cut up, Maria       show me some of them Spanish dances  
  
  Am              F                G  
   And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones  
  
Am             F      Dm                     G  
   Believe in me         help me believe in anything  
  
         Am              F               G  
   Cause I, I wanna be someone who believes     yeah  
  
  
  
{Chorus 1}  
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C      F             G  
   Mr. Jones and me    tell each other fairy tales  
  
      C                           F  
   And we stare at the beautiful women  
  
           G  
   'She's looking at you   Ah, no, no, she's looking at me'  
  
C                    F            G  
   Smiling in the bright lights     coming through in stereo  
  
        C           F          G  
   When everybody loves you,     you can never be lonely  
  
  
  
{Verse 3}  
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            Am                   F        Dm                   G  
   Now well I'm gonna paint my picture       paint myself in blue and red and black and gray  
  
Am                       F                 G  
   All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful  
  
                     Am                   F        Dm              G  
   Ya well you know gray is my favorite color I...... felt so symbolic yesterday  
  
Am              F                 G                              
   If I knew Picasso     I would buy myself a gray guitar and play  
  
  
  
{Chorus 2}  
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C        F            G  
   Mr. Jones and me      look into the future  
  
         C                          F  
   Yeah we stare at the beautiful women  
  
             G  
   'She's looking at you  I don't think so  She's looking at me'  
  
C                     F         G  
   Standing in the spotlight       I bought myself a gray guitar  
  
        C              F       G                        Am  
   When everybody loves me,      I will never be lo...nely  
  
  
  
{Interlude}  
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                      F  
   I will never be lonely  
  
                     Am              G  
   I said I'm never gonna be lo......nely  
  
Am                        F  
   I want to be a lion     Everybody wants to pass as cats  
  
Am                                         G  
   We all wanna be big big stars, yeah but   we got different reasons for that  
  
Am                        F  
   Believe in me because I don't believe in anything  
  
      Am                                G  
   And I, I wanna be someone to believe,  to believe,  to believe   yeah  
  
  
  
{Chorus 3}  
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C       F            G  
   Mr. Jones and me    stumbling through the barrio  
  
         C                          F  
   Yeah we stare at the beautiful women  
  
            G  
   'She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me'  
  
 C                    F  
   I wanna be Bob Dylan  
  
          G  
   Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky  
  
  C                 F              G  
   When everybody loves you, ah son,   that's just about as funky as you can be  
  
  
  
{Chorus 4}  
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C      F             G  
   Mr. Jones and me    staring at the video  
  
         C                 F                G  
   When I look at the television, I wanna see me staring right back at me  
  
C                  F                 G  
   We all wanna be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how  
  
            C              F                G  
   But when everybody loves me,   I wanna be   just about as happy as I can be  
  
  
  
{Ending}  
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C      F              G  
   Mr. Jones and me,    we're gonna be big stars