Counting Crows - Scarecrow Lyrics

we need more songs like this. just random stuff that ryhmes to good ol rock music. not that crap about love and drunken regrets

Brilliant chalk drawing of the artwork too

Genius and love it
Gets better the more you listen
Awesome return to form

love this song it's my favorite and you are never to old to have a excellent album even the irish rovers had a hit when they did there retirement tour

Amazing album, amazing!

Tough thing for any band to do, capture the magic 20 years after their "peak"... this track is a good as anything they ever did. I think it would fit in well on Recovering the Satellites

Buffalo Wild Wings always plays this song! i love it!

I remember standing next to some guy in dreads at Saratoga Winners (a bar back in the 90s) thinking "who's this guy?" ..he got served before me...it was Adam.  20+ years later this guy can write lyrics like no other! This song is a testament to that. Keep writing man!

Is excellente for example counting crows.......The best..

Yeah! Super, enjoyed the video ! Music is the prime invention of our species isn't it? I'm very happy to be a musician!

This is sweet home alabama...

its all good but the riff is a tom petty look alike

I think I've had this on repeat for 3 hours straight. Whatever forever.

+Lynn Scott your comment makes me wanna be your friend

Jesus Loves You

"All the sudden"?  Come on, CC!  Why is this non-phrase becoming a phrase!?!  It's "all of a sudden"!  Always has been!  READ A BOOK, KIDS!

(P.S. love the song)

lol songs aren't supposed to teach you proper grammar 

I'm a total grammar nazi, and the best I can hope for is that he's saying "All the 'sudden light' inside you dies..."  as in a light that came on suddenly then dims suddenly, too.

@Mike Wood
"she don't want nobody near" 

Hey now, come on... that's different! That's a conscious use of colloquial type of speech... using double negatives for emphasis makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than just mishearing a phrase and spouting it incorrectly out of ignorance.

@Mike Wood

I really like this song, it sounds a little like a lost B-side from August. That said, the only complaint I have with it is when they all say "BUFFALOOOOO!". It makes me picture in my mind them driving and seeing a buffalo and they're all slapping high fives and shouting about how rad that buffalo is

You're complaining about having that image!?  Now I have it, too, and I think it makes the song better!  LOL

@Mike Wood I agree and can't get enough of this song.  It took a little while ,but, it has really grown on me

The buffalo is the key to all of this.

I'm glad they're back.

If you don't like this song, don't worry.. it's the worst song off of the new album.  It's all up from here.

I don't agree - the songs I keep skipping over (but may come to enjoy later, I'm sure) are God of Ocean Tides and Cover Up The Sun.  I love Scarecrow and for a moment there, it was my favorite track on the album.

lol God of Ocean Tides is my favorite from the album, and I think it may be the best song Adam has written.

I'm sure it'll grow on me, but it slows everything down for me.  I like the upbeat songs.

Nice song :3 congratulations C: 

Human beings continue to impress me. You either like the song or don't. lol

Counting Crows new album out and the 5 days later Deacon Blue's new album!! Mr Marc Cohn news something new and I'm the happiest guy around!!
Crazy Lyrics Adam but I guess it helps! love it

I think there are several issues with their new sound on this record. Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to buy it of course and listen to it more and more. They have been my favorite band for 10 years strong afterall.

The problem is these new songs are too impersonal with unrelatable, often nonsensical lyrics. They have pretty melodies, but they just don't hit you as well as songs on past records, especially AAEA or This Desert Life.

Also, I really don't like the push to a more classic rock sound. It sounds like they are too inspired by Bruce Springsteen to me. They've been kind of moving more towards this sound over the past years, but I really prefer their alternative/pop produced sound they were tweaking with on their first 4 records. Oh well, I suppose those records will always be there for me too. I'm sure this will help them tap into a different audience.

Dig deeper. The new songs are just as relatable as the old ones if you let them in  and create your own interpretations. This new album is no doubtably one of their best ever. 

I can agree on the Bruce Springsteen comparisons lyrically quite a bit, which is something I love, Bruce is arguably the greatest American Artist ever. Yet, when Bruce would, in his first two albums, use his vocabulary in I feel a more organized and less abstract way than Adam Duritz is doing on this album. Like Bruce would use crazy rhyme schemes and A LOT OF WORDS, he practically rapped Blinded By The Light, yet would also be contained and make sure people could get the idea. This album is rather cryptic, and I may be digging to deep into it but still.What I like on this album, that this is a mix of more Van Morrison(Counting Crows have always been Morrison lovers) and later Beatles Records. Sergeant Pepper and White Album influences are rather apparent if you listen carefully.

the guitar Brian? Sounds like Tom Petty circa "Mary Jane's Last Dance" during the verses and Grant Lee Buffalo "Jubilee" era (also very Petty-esque) and it's no bad thing either. This is the first time I've looked forward to one of their records since "This Desert Life", I have the others but just not as good for me.

The intro really reminds me of a another songs but I can't think which one.

It reminds me of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Mary Jane's Last Dance intro.

sweet home alabama

Love it and I can't wait between the new Weezer and new counting crows, I may start buying CD' s again!

I really love this song.

Not gonna lie.  I watched this because I like to watch people do art, not so much because of the song.

Amazing song, amazing artwork....
Just wow!

Not a crow but has crow in the name. UHHGG

Listening to this and Palisades Park has become a daily routine for me =p

Just.. Awesome

I ♡ adam

The guitar kind of reminds me of "Hanging Tree".

Except, you know, infinitely worse.

I don't know about "worse".  I think the song's more abstract and less personal than anything they've done before, and it'll take some getting used to, but worse?  I don't know.

@njl4515 not true.

@njl4515 Totally untrue.  This is a great song.  You're just here to troll.  Be gone wit' ye!

THIS. Is music. More great work by a amazing song writer. Adam Duritz is extremely under appreciated. 

I'm REALLY liking what I'm hearing from them recently. The new album's gonna be pretty tight if it lives up to this and Palisades Park.

Really good...... back to your strengths - love it! Roll on the new album.

Its  a grower but lovely as always

incredible.. as always

Lo mejor es escuchar la música de couting crows

Can't wait for the new album

Opera d'arte, l'ennesima

great song, great video from a great band

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