Lyric discussion by tc1988 

I went to see counting crows play a concert the other day, in which they played this song. And as the intro started Adam told the audience what the song meant to him.

He said that he was saw a magazine with a pretty actress on the front who had been recently divorced and that it said Adam was her new boyfriend. Which made him wish he had met her before.

So he thought about what she must be going through and what it must feel like to have the press make up lies about your personal life for other people's entertainment. And he wished he could talk to her, not that he would be the best person to talk to or that he would know what to say but just to talk to her as he knows how it feels to be isolated.

That's what he said anyway. Make of it what you will...

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