Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Sha la la la la la la uh huh...

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl

 Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer

She dances while his father plays guitar. She's suddenly beautiful

 We all want something beautiful, I wish I was beautiful

 So come dance this silence down through the morning

Sha la la la la la la la yeah uh huh...

Cut up, Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones

Believe in me. Help me believe in anything

 'Cause I want to be someone who believes

Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales

Stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."

Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo

 When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

I will paint my picture. Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray

All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful

 (you know) Gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday

If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me look into the future

Stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."

Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar

 When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

 I will never be lonely

 I will never be lonely

I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats

We All want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that.

Believe in me because I don't believe in anything

 And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio

 Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

 "She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."

I want to be Bob Dylan

 Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

 When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video

 When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.

We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.

 But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be.

Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.....