JUEVES - LYRICS ("Mr. Jones")

- Mr. Jones – Counting Crows

Sha, la, la, la, la, la, la

Mmm

Uh huh

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,

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 that Spanish dancin'.

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,

smilin' 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 is my favorite color.

I felt so symbolic yesterday

if I knew 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 wanna be a lion.

Yeah, everybody wants to pass as cats.

We all wanna be big, big stars,

Yeah, but we got different reasons for that.

Believe in me,

'cause I don't believe in anything,

and I wanna 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 love you.

Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

Mr Jones and me,

starin' at the video,

when I look at the television, I wanna see me

staring right back at me.

We all wanna be big stars

but we don't know why, and we don't know how,

but when everybody loves me.

I'm wanna be just about as happy as I can be.

Mr Jones and me

we're gonna be big stars.

- Notas: 

La canción (que no hay narices a entender sin mirar la letra) va sobre dos amigos en un bar llamado el “New Amsterdam” que miran a una cantante rubia (“yellow-haired girl”) e intentan autoconvencerse de que esa mujer les haría caso si fueran alguien importante y no unos don nadie y se ponen a imaginar que ella les hace caso y de ahí lo de “me ha mirado a mi” “de eso nada, me ha mirado a mi” y esas tonterías que suele decir quien no se atreve ni siquiera a intentar acercase a una mujer que le gusta.

- 1. “…strike up'…” = Bonito phrasal verb que se usa para hablar de iniciar algo, principalmente una conversación o una amistad.

- 2. “…fairy tales…” = Los “fairy tales” son los cuentos de hadas que se cuentan a los niños, pero aquí se usa de modo metafórico para hablar de las fantasías imposibles que tienen los dos protagonistas de la canción.

- 3. “…spotlight…” = “Spotlight” es el foco que se usa para iluminar un escenario aunque también se puede usar en sentido figurado para hablar de algo que se convierte en actualidad o que centra nuestra atención. Así “to be in the spotlight” es “estar en el candelero”.
- 4. “…funky…” = El “funky” es un tipo de música, pero aquí se usa con otro sentido más coloquial, algo así como “enrrollado”, “en la onda”, etc. Se usa un poco como opuesto a “pasado de moda, gris y aburrido”.