Mr. Jones

"this is a song that has been misinterpreted greatly. Um, to say the least. I think people too often look for symbolism in songs when they're simplier than they seem. This in particular, is much simpiler than it must seem to a lot of people. I've heard everything from it being about some Ancient Blues man who taught me music, which is ridiculous but like somebodies movie fantasy. But i've also heard it was about my dick, which is even more ridiculous . Why do people go there? When we did the interview to Rolling Stone I walked with David Wild into the muse del se in paris one day and the first thing that happened was the two kids ran up to us and said "hey you're the guy from counting crows right?" and i was like yea. "is mr. jones about your dick?" i wanted to kill the guy cuz i knew where that was going to end up which is the first paragraph in rolling stone. it's really a song about my friend marty and i. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a flamenco guitar player who lived in spain. He was in san francisco in the mission playing with his old flamenco troop and after the gig we all went out to this bar called the new amsterdam in san francisco on columbus and we got completely drunk. Marty and I sat at the bar staring at these two girls wishing there was some way we could go talk to them. But we were too shy, and we thought, we kept joking to each other you know hey if we were big rockstars instead of such loser low budget musicians. We'd be able to, this would be easy. I went home that night and I wrote a song about it and i mean i joke about it, that story. But it's really a song about all the dreams and all the things that make you want to go into, doing whatever it is that seizes your heart. Whether it's being a rockstar or being a doctor or whatever it is you know. And those things run from all of the things that are pent up inside of me to i wanna meet girls. you know. cuz i'm tired of not being able to. And it is a lot of those things, it's about all of those dreams. But it's also kind of cautionary because it's about how misguided you may be about some of those things, and how hollow they may be too. The character in the song keeps saying, "when everybody loves me i'll never be lonely" and you're supposed to know thats not the way it way it's going to be probably. I mean I knew that even then and uh, this is a song about my dreams." Adam Duritz

It's not about his penis indiana jones, moron.