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By: Brent Warnken
 
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Counting Crows never seemed to be too happy with where they were at the moment. While not all of their songs are about moving on to a new place, some of the band's best work was inspired by a spirit ofrestlessness , unease with their current place in the world and anxiousness to set out for somewhere different. Here are the top three Counting Crows songs for the restless hearts of this world.
3. "Round Here"
After "Mr. Jones," Counting Crows' 1993 breakout hit, the band released their second single, "Round Here." Lead singer and songwriter Adam Duritz once said that the song was about a man who keeps leaving people behind, but "the more he begins to leave people behind in his life, the more he feels like he's leaving himself behind as well." It opens with the lyrics: "Step out the front door like a ghost/ Into the fog where no one notices/ The contrast of white on white."
The fact that he uses a ghost as a metaphor for the song's main character seems to suit the restless theme, as ghosts are often spirits caught between one world and the next, full of unfinished business. Ghosts are lonesome souls who want to stay but need to go, stirring sleeplessly in their former yet current homes. Ghosts are restless. They're always slamming doors, moving about on creaky floors in the middle of the night and offering veiled, unsolicited warnings. The main character in "Round here" is around here, but he's mentally or spiritually somewhere else.
2. "Long December"
Off the 1997 album Recovering the Satellites, "Long December" topped out at No. 5 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks at No. 5. It was one of Counting Crows biggest hits to date. The lyrics of "Long December" bring to mind a melancholy feeling right out of the gates. AdamDuritz begins with, "A long December and there's reason to believe/ Maybe this year will be better than the last/ I can't remember the last thing you said as you were leaving." December can be a long month if you're thinking about a loved one you miss, and it's a time of the year when you do a lot of reflecting on the events of the past 12 months.
The narrator of the song can't tell whether he wants his love interest to come to him or if he needs to see her. The chorus alternates between "And it's one more day up in the canyons/ And it's one more night in Hollywood/ If you think you might come to California...I think you should" and "And it's one more day up in the canyon/ And it's one more night in Hollywood/ It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should." Will the narrator of the song stay in the canyons or stay in Hollywood, stay in California and wait, or go see the ocean?
1. "Hanginaround"
"Hanginaround" is the Counting Crows' signature song about being restless. With lyrics like "Well, you know I gotta get out But I'm stuck so tight/ Weighed by the chains that keep me.../hanginaround this town on the corner." It's a song that's essentially about hanging out in a town for too long. It certainly seems like the narrator of the lyrics needs a change in scenery. "Hanginaround" continues, "Well, I got all this time to be waiting for what is mine/ To be hating what I am after the light has faded." At some point in our lives we've all been hanging around for too long and need to get the gumption to move onto something newer. Whether it's with our locations, our careers, outrelationships , sometimes people get into a comfortable yet self-numbing rut that we need to be extracted from, physically.
Sometimes it's good to be restless. Hopefully when you get Counting Crows tickets online for one of their upcoming shows, you can use these songs to figure out some area of your own life that needs to ship up, ship out and move on. |
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