I was down at the New Amsterdam
Staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
You know, she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
Man, I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Cut up, Maria, show me some of them Spanish dances
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me, help me believe in anything
'Cause I want to be someone who believes, yeah
Mr. Jones, and me tell each other fairy tales
And we 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
Well, I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
Yeah well, 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
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you, 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, said I'm never gonna be lonely
I want to be a lion, everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big, big stars
Yeah, but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me 'cause I don't believe in anything
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe, yeah
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 wanna be just about as happy as I can be
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars