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
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
And we all want something beautiful
Man I wish I was beautiful
So come dance the silence down through the morning
Sha la la la la la la la yeah,
Uh huh, yeah
Cut up Maria!
Show me some of them Spanish dances and
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
Cause I want to be someone who believes, yeah
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales and we
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you
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
Well I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Yeah well you know gray's my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew a Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
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 will never be lonely...
I will never be lonely
Said I'm never gonna be,
Lonely
I want to be a lion
Eh, Everybody want to pass as cats
We all want to be big big stars yeah but
We got different reasons for that
Believe in me, cause I don't believe in anything
And I, I want to be someone
To believe, to believe, to believe yeah
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, aw son,
That's just about as funky as you can be
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television I want to see me
Staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars but we don't know why
and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me, I wanna be
Just about as happy as can be
Mr. Jones and me,
We're gonna be big stars....
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