High Life - Counting Crows
Transcribed by Don Ferlazzo (CountCrow4@aol.com) on 11/6/99


D D/G Cadd9 G5 (x4)

Verse: D D/G Cadd9 G5

I don't know why, but
All my friends got flowers in their eyes,
But I got none this season.
All of last year's blooms have gone and died.
Time doesn't give a reason.

Well, hey, maybe you ask yourself:
Sometimes what you need to be forgiven
Everything that you ever done wrong
Is the reason that I'm driven straight to tears.


F#m G A G
Waiting here for you.
F#m G A G
Wanting to tell you.
F#m G A G Cadd9 G5/B G5
How I get my ends and my beginnings mixed up,
F#m G A G
too. Just the way you do.
F#m G A G
I thought if I told you,
Cadd9 G5/B G5
You might want to stay for just another day or two.


Waiting for the trains that just never come
Beginning to believe in
The disappearing nature of the people we have been.
We have begun to change

Into the worst kind of people.
So what kind of apology?
No apologies.
This apology doesn't describe
The way it feels to feel for you.


Waiting here for you.
Wanting to tell you
How I find myself slowly disappearing, too.
Just the way you do
I thought if I told you
You might want to help me to remain with you.


I just wanna stay for a little while
I wanna stay a little while

Cause there's a night light just falling down on me.
I just feel like a change,
But if the southern summer sea of flowers
Won't bloom without the rain,
But, oh, this desert life.
This high life.

Here at the dying of the day,
I wasn't made for the scene, baby,
But I wasn't made in this scene, baby,
It's just my way.

I don't wanna go home alone.
I wanna come on home to you.


Waiting here for you.
Wanting to tell you.
How I line my sky with all the silver I can get.
Just the way you do.
I thought if I told you
You might want to stay for just another day or two.


Isn't that just like disappearing into the sum of yourself,
And the person you are disappearing into?
It's like one plus one equals nothing at all.
One plus two equals nothing at all.
One plus me equals nothing at all.
One plus you equals one plus you equals you equals.
You and you and you and
Nothing at all.

Odd Chords:
D/G: x20032
Cadd9: x32033
G5: 320033
G5/B: x20033