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I Wish I Was a Girl

Counting Crows
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Intro

    

Verse 1

The devil's in the dreaming, he tells you I'm not sleeping in my hotel room alone
With nothing to believe in, you dive into the traffic rising up, and it's so quiet
You're surprised and then you wake

Pre Chorus

For all the things you're losing you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling
round my brain

Chorus

I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say, "Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days"

Solo

    

Verse 2

The devil's in the dreaming, you see yourself descending from a building to the ground
You watch the sky receding, you spin to see the traffic rising up and it's so quiet
You're surprised and then you wake

Pre Chorus

For all the things you're losing you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling
round my brain

Chorus

I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say, "Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days"

Solo

 

Bridge

And in one of these dreams
You forgive me
It makes me think of the bad decisions
That keep you at home, how could anyone else have changed?
But these are wrong conclusions
That leave you alone, How could everyone rearrange?
How could everyone else have changed? What I see, I believe  

Pre Chorus

For all the things you're losing you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling
round my brain

Chorus

I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me
And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep
I wish for all the world that I could say, "Hey Elizabeth, you know, I'm doing alright these days"

Solo

   
   
   

Outro

Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght
Well I can't sleep at ni-ght

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