Counting Crows - Hard Candy Lyrics

Finally! after 9 years i found this song.

Probably the last of bands with songs that had some meaning. However, its just another piece of hard candy.

The disinterest in this band displays the degredated state that artists endured as music died

The songs go from having really great lines to mediocre lines to just plain weird. If Counting Crows hung out with Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell and Rage Against the Machine maybe they'd be more relevant.

On certain Sundays in November 
When the weather bothers me 
I empty drawers of other summer's 
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 
When 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 
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 
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 summer's 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 
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 [4X]
It's just the same hard candy 
You're remembering again 
Again [4X]
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 if there's a spark 
[3X]

Movie Pa Pai brings me here.

To me this is Counting Crows best album, although I love August and Every After and Recovering the satellites just as much, but hard candy is a such joyful, mature and amazingly performed album, this whole album portrays everything that makes counting crows one of the best bands of my generation.

I agree with every word

@jj dogg Me too. It is their best.

This is one of my favorite songs by them.