Four Reasons Why This Song by Counting Crows is Extraordinary

The last song on their latest album, “Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings” is called “Come Around.”

It’s killer.

A minute into this song, I knew it would be a favorite of mine, stored in my memory forever like some of James Taylor’s and Joni Mitchell’s.

Wow.

Holy wow.

The soul-sacredness of great art.

Very strong emotion in this song, and I didn’t even know what it was about…

Then I found the lyrics.

I think this may be the Counting Crows’ best song ever.

Thank God the Counting Crows have come back to life!

So cool to see resurrections.

Renaissances.

How can a song fill your soul with joy and melancholy at the same time? A “melanc-holy” that somehow increases the joy.

Holy wow.

You gotta hear this one before you go, no kidding.

The CD is on Repeat right now and I’ve played it about fifteen times in a row already.

The truth of this song is that pieces of you are in the memories of other people and pieces of other people’s lives are in you, for the good, for laughter and for joy. For your soul. For love.

Forever.

Laughter and tears.

Memories.

Never gonna die.

An old girlfriend of mine told me once that she still loved other guys she spent huge pieces of her life with. They were part of her forever, even though she was no longer “in love with them.”

You know, this didn’t bother me at all, and it guaranteed my immortality also in her immortal soul, it guaranteed ~meaning~ no matter what happened after that–and the no matter what did happen, also, of course…

Rose DeWitt Bukater said that a woman’s heart is an ocean of deep secrets.

Then she dropped the heart of the ocean into the heart of the ocean.

Compared to love, the largest diamond in the world is just–a rock.

Love never dies.

For anyone.

Love and everything good never dies.

All the loving people I have ever known are still with me–aren’t yours with you also, even though they are gone, even though they are dead?

Evil and evil people, loveless people, you start forgetting right away, just like pain

But love never dies.

You gotta ~hear~ this song!!

“Come Around” by The Counting Crows

lThe song’s lyrics are below.

(I don’t think I have plumbed the depths of those last lines… curious what you see…)

“Come Around” by Counting Crows

Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been?
Little pieces blowing’ gently on the wind
They have flown down California
They have landed in L.A.
Little pieces slowly settling on the waves
I’m one of a million pieces fallen on the ground
It’s one of the reasons when we say goodbye
We’ll still come around We will come around
I have waited for tomorrow from December ’til today
I have started loving sorrow along the way
I am calling from some city
And I won’t be there too long
I could wait and I could waste away
But what comes back is I hear you say we’re gone
For all of the times that I go spinning up and down
When all of the things have died between us
Well, we’ll still come around We will come around
After I’ve been missing for a while
And you hear that summer’s song
Haven’t all the fading lines lingered on?
What I know is: she’s going
When you know it, it’s alright
So you put yourself between you and your pride
If you wait for what’s coming
And you listen to her lies,
Then she’ll say the things you need to hear
And the only one who’ll disappear is you
And one of the million lies she said
Is “All of the things you love are dead.”
But I’ve seen what she thinks is love
And it leaves me laughing so we’ll still come around