The Tall Grass - Counting Crows lyrics

“Come outside,” she said to me As if I knew just what she’d say “Come outside, we’ll watch tomorrow Pull the curtain on today” “Come outside into the tall grass And the old corn and the sh*t Come outside o child Into the wild and weep for it” And all along I know I don’t know the why And it takes me through the meadows And I have got a rifle on my arm And the rabbit won’t stop shaking But the life is gone And there is blood upon the clover And, oh god, his eyes are open wide Staring up at me and infinity And the shrinking English sky And all along I tell myself I don’t know thе why And as the idea ossifies I can’t bеlieve it’s mine I make a change He is wordless and silent and He says “Just close my eyes.” “I have one eye open to the rain And one pressed to the ground again And I don’t know why… And I don’t know why… And I don’t know why…” No they don’t know why No they don’t know why No they don’t know, don’t know don’t know, don’t know… Oh, she takes a train to Paris For a weekend with a friend They take you places Trains and summers At 200 miles an hour That you’ve never been Did I ever say The way your breath Takes mine away As I start out at the grassland Past the living and the dead Matter forming and decaying A perpetual uprising Let there be a revolution And a light to lead us on Just a ball of souls revolving Spinning circles round the sun For the infinite and ageless For the meaningless and painless For the times we shook like rabbits Felt like children Made us ask this Can you see me? Can you see me? Can you see me? Can you see me? Can you see me? For I am changing But all the same things Come back to haunt me There are trains that can take a girl to Paris There are planes that can bring you home There are some of us get broken when we’re children And you never get it back once that is gone And I don’t know why No, I don’t know why No, I don’t know why No, I don’t know why