Counting Crows - August And Everything After Chords

[Verse 1]
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They're waking up Maria because everybody else has got someplace to go
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She makes a little motion with her head, rolls over, says she's gonna sleep for a couple minutes more
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I said I'm sorry to Maria for the cold-hearted thing that I have done
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I've said I'm sorry by now, at least once, to just about everyone


[Pre-Chorus 1]
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She says, I have forgotten what I'm supposed to do today
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It slips my mind what I'm supposed to say
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We're getting older and older and older and older
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And always a little further out of the way


[Chorus 1]
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You look into her eyes and it's more than your heart will allow
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In August and everything after, you get a little less than you expected somehow


[Verse 2]
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Well I stumbled into Washington Square, just as the sun began to rise
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And I walked across the lawn to the cathedral and I lay down, in the shadow of St. Mary's in the sky
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I'm just one of these late-model children waiting for the king
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There ain't no sign of Elvis in San Francisco, it's just me, and I'm playin' this rock and roll thing


[Pre-Chorus 2]
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And she wants to be just like me
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And I want every damn thing that I can see
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You know one day, you're daddy's little angel
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The next day you're everything he wanted you to be


[Chorus 2]
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They dress you up in white satin and they give you your very own pair of wings
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In August and everything after, I'm after everything
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[Verse 3]
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Well I got my reservations and I got my seven million dollar home
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I got, I got the number of some girl in North Dakota

Who's always wide awake so I never have to spend the night alone
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I got this nasty little habit of peeking down the shirts of all the little girls as they pass me by
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And I know you wonder, when it all catches up to me
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And they finally bring me down, do you think I'm gonna cry?


[Pre-Chorus 3]
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Well listen, I already got my disease
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So get your f**king filthy hands off of me
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I hope you weren't expecting me to be crucified
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The best that they can do is just to hang me from the nearest tree


[Chorus 3]
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Yeah it's midnight in San Francisco and I am waiting here for Jesus on my knees
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In August and everything after, I need somebody else to bleed for me, yeah
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In August and everything after, I need somebody else to bleed for me
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[Verse 4]
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Well I came down from San Francisco because I had confidence in a military mind
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But now everyone I know is turning showgirl and dancin' with their shirt off in some Las Vegas hotel line
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So I'm goin' to New York City 'cause it got a little sleazy here for me
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And when I find myself alone, you know I'm never goin’ home
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You make the changes, the changes that you need


[Pre-Chorus 4]
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But I no longer know how to pray
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I live in dogtown and it's a Dalmatian parade
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I changed my spots over and over
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But they never seem to fa-ee-a-ee-ade away


[Chorus 4]
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I am the last remaining Indian lookin' for the place where the buffalo roam
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In August and everything after, man them buffalo ain't never comin' home, no
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In August and everything after, man them buffalo ain't, they ain't never comin' home, no
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In August and everything after, man them buffalo ain't never comin' home


[Outro]
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La-la-la-la la-la-laaaaa, ah-la-la-laa-la 
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La-la-la-la la-laaaaa, la-laaaaa-la-la 
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