Lyrical Spotlight - Counting Crows

To read what Adam Duritz had to say about this song, you can link over to here.

I WIsh I Was A Girl

The devil's in the dreaming
He tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
With nothing to believe in
You dive into the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised and then you wake

For all the things you're losing
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling round my brain

I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elisabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."

The devil's in the dreaming
You see yourself descending from a building to the ground
You watch the sky receding
You spin to see the traffic rising up
And it's so quiet
You're surprised and then you wake

For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change

But I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling round my brain

I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elisabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."

In one of these dreams, you forgive me
It makes me think of the bad decisions that keep you at home
How could anyone else have changed?
All these wrong conclusions that leave you alone
How could everyone rearrange?
How could everyone else have changed?
What I see I believe

For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
Well, I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling around my brain

I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep

I wish for all the world that I could say,
"Hey Elisabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days."

But I can't sleep at night ...

Comments

[Alicia]

Im sorta glad youre a boy. The spikey hair, dave bryson look alike comments might be a little insulting if youre a girl.

Any thoughts on "shake this static everytime I try to sleep" means?

[david]

I always thought that he meant that if Elisabeth had believed him, he would be able to sleep at night. But her unbelieving (non-believing?) was breaking his heart, and he was out on the road so he couldn't do much about the tour schedule anyways.

[gina]

i have a thought on the "shake this static everytime i try to sleep" line.

i think it's like when you are alone, laying in bed, in a zone, etc, and you mind wanders off thinking about all these things that you should have done. you replay parts of life over and over trying to figure out what happened.

[Jeff Scott]

Funny, I just thought he should use dryer sheets when he washes his bed sheets. Personaly, I hate static cling.