If you wanted to be free
There's just one thing you need to know
And that's that you can't count on me Counting Crows – You Can't Count On Me
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But hey, I got you down on your knees again Counting Crows – You Can't Count On Me
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Adam begins to paint a picture of this screwed up relationship by starting us off with rock ‘n roll’s own version of a double entendre!
The relationship’s problems (which are mostly the man’s fault) are hard to change, and they both realize that, but at the end of the day she’s going to be on her knees begging for him to stay due to their strong feelings for each other.
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The relationship has fallen from an emotional connection on both parts to a physical connection – sexually based. Their fury for each other after the fight turns into make up sex, which leads into her on her knees giving him a blow job.
All alone again, but I've been through all this shit before
Spend my nights in self defense, cry about my innocence
But I ain't all that innocent anymore, more, more Counting Crows – I'm Not Sleeping
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She tells me when you talk about me, she lays me on the floor
She tells me when you're whispering, she lies beside me naked
She tells me when you laugh at me and she locks all the doors Counting Crows – I'm Not Sleeping
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She comes to me when I'm alone
She comes to me, she holds my head when I'm crying
She comes to me, she shuts my eyes
She brings me home Counting Crows – I'm Not Sleeping
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The “other girl” of this story, who also happens to be his girlfriend’s most trusted friend, is the one that’s there for him when his girlfriends puts him through terrible shit.
At the end of the verse, his feelings for her are set in stone once he realizes that he feels more at home with her than his own girl.
You'll come down this way on your own Counting Crows – Time and Time Again
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And get the sensation of you coming home Counting Crows – Time and Time Again
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He wants the girl to retrace her steps and come back to him, i.e her coming home to him.
Staring back at me, but you were gone Counting Crows – Time and Time Again
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His penis is a bit large for the Trojan Magnum condoms and being in a sexual frenzy, Tech easily breaks the contraception.
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Odds are, the heartbroken ex in this song is drunk/high/both, so here we find ourselves diving into his mindless rantings of wanting to be in his own paradise, after destroying the terrible place he’s in now.