Round Here
Round here we're never sent to bed early
And nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late
歌前面有8秒左右的空白，随后雨滴一样的吉他声响起。事实上歌里正是一个满是白茫茫大雾还下着雨的夜晚，某个人从小镇酒吧的前门出来，可能，像所有阴郁的电影画面表现的那样，他把帽子拉上来罩住脑袋，双手插在夹克口袋里，幽灵般地消失于雨雾中。这是座他成长的小镇，他却不知道自己在哪。他回忆起一个女孩，那女孩一个人从纳什维尔来，跟他说，她想遇见一个像猫王那样的男孩。可是当他刚才出门前，他听见昔日的那女孩正坐在座位上哭泣。为什么？他不知道。
这是一首关于成长、梦想和现实沮丧、疲惫与失败的歌。那个叫做玛丽亚的女孩永远滑脱了他的双手，他自己也离人群愈来愈远，与此同时，离自己也是愈来愈远。在这儿，成长的所在地，大家看起来都一模一样，说起话来总是那么理直气壮，却不能摆脱消磨人生的命运，像羔羊一样交由无所谓对无所谓错的岁月打磨迟钝。一个神经质的外来女孩，像刀锋一样嵌入这种平庸的生活里，她反射出的短暂光亮，曾经映亮了另一个人的双眼和世界，然而稍纵即逝。
他终究还是记住了她，记住她行在海陆交界处的孤单身影，那让他想到这个女孩的人生其实是在一条钢索上。
他在这个奇异又凡庸的小镇里充满疼痛地成长。许多年后，他回忆起这座小镇，除了想起那个叫玛丽亚的女孩，还知道了在故乡这里，人们总是迟迟入睡的原因。他想起那些迟迟不能成眠的成长夜晚，心里明白，自己其实无人可等待，但总是像在等待着什么，一直到夜很深很深。
Round Here
演唱：Counting Crows
出自：1993年乐队专辑August and Everything After
Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white.
And in between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
I walk in the air between the rain
through myself and back again
Where? I don't know
Maria says she's dying
through the door I hear her crying
Why? I don't know
Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates
Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
she said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
she parks her car outside of my house
takes her clothes off
says she's close to understanding Jesus
she knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
she has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands
Sleeping children better run like the wind
out of the lightning dream
Mama's little baby better get herself in
out of the lightning
She says It's only in my head
She says Shhh I know it's only in my head
But the girl in car in the parking lot
says "Man you should try to take a shot
can't you see my walls are crumbling?"
Then she looks up at the building
and says she's thinking of jumping
She says she's tired of life
she must be tired of something
Round here she's always on my mind
Round here hey man got lots of time
Round here we're never sent to bed early
And nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late
