Ten years ago in high school Id listen to this song, this version over and over throughout the duration of school. It brought me solace during tough times. I've shed many tears while playing it.. I find myself here again listening to it again, crying. I wish I could say it gets easier, but it doesn't.. You just find ways to cope.. I hope if you find yourself reading this now.. I hope you stay, despite everything telling you to leave. Please stay
This version is so powerful. Can you imagine the trillions of people missing out on this gem? Isn't it awesome, how Maria tells us so much about Adam? And how, on the other hand, Maria tells us so much about ourselves? While Maria is Adam's female incarnation he intereacts with her like she was a different person, he unwraps his deepest feelings, crude and uncensored, harsh and hurtful. Feelings that seem to envoke something in ourselves as we listen to this song. Because despite all this being a reflection of Adam's feelings, we all have them inside ourselves, too. How does it feel to be all alone under the sun, we ask ourselves? Especially in this version, so early indeed, 1994, this song had just developed into something that powerful, Maria exposes herself like never before. Underneath the stars she said, tell me that you love me. Do what you wanna do, she said. I don't wanna be like you, she said. Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone. She reveals herself, naked, undisguised and yet he is incapabable of seeing her. Incapable, in fact, of seeing all the things in life that really matter. Until they are gone. And while Maria sits in the back crying, he doesn't understand. Because we all got shit to deal with, we are all tired of something, right? Some things you keep, some things you were never meant to lose, Adam sings in another rendition of this song. Because we want to be seen, but no one can ever see us the way we do. Trapped in this slippery slope we may get dismayed that, no matter how desperate we look for something that caters to our every need, nothing will match to the things in our souls. Can't you see my walls, they are crumbling? Can't you see my moon stopped flashing around? Can't you see the sky all green, black, brown and grey. Where is this place where we all stand up straight and we all carved out our names that mean something? I can stay up very late and nobody makes me frickin' wait because I don't frickin see anyone anymore. I cannot see nothing around here. So maybe kiss me if I am leaving, catch me when I am falling, hold me because I am lonely without you? How stupid I never utter these wishes directly. How inconvenient I am a victim of my own feelings that fade endlessly.
This is a beautiful comment but Maria was a real person and a dysfunctional relationship he was in. Although upon thinking about it, it does actually make your case more relevant - what do those relationships that we will never forget (e.g Mrs. Jones - "there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing") our interactions with those individuals, both then and how we recall over time - say about us emotionally and psychologically?
@@searchingfororion Thank you for your comment, you made me come back here after three years. Some of what you say is indeed true, Maria is based for a part on a friend of his that he admired. But I think it was an episode of Story Tellers where he said that Maria is this character he came up with for Round Here and she is him in many ways. It is a song about him, he adds, before the band starts off playing. He says it in a more recent video where he is directly asked about her. Maria is the personification of the feelings that make him write songs ruclips.net/video/3lkr-bhXv2M/видео.html. By the way, in A Murder of One, he sings about a dysfunctional relationship of a good friend of his. A marriage that turned to horror but her being too afraid to leave. How much of that contains Maria? As a side note for you to fall in love with this album even more: Every song starting from Round Here, to Mister Jones and Sullivan Street are about leaving, running away, becoming a star. How to get out of where you are or how you got out of there (I am long, long gone from there - Sullivan Street) and reminisce about the past. And Murder of One, the last song on the album, is all about staying. Staying for you don't want to be alone, she sees no value in her beyond the destructive relationship she is in. This comes out very poignantly in the acoustic version of the song of over eight minutes where she says 'How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people, how does it feel to be under the sun?' So, in August and Everything After, it comes down to running away and getting lost in the search for oneself but it ends in staying for the wrong reasons. His profoundness hits me hard whenever I try to make sense out of all of it. As you also quoted so well, a little bit of her is in every song that he sings. In the 2014 album Somewhere Under Wonderland in the song 'John Appleseed's Lament' he starts off with 'I step out the front door into winter...' very similar to Round Here. And later Maria appears, he calls the wind Maria because he does not her face. He came back to this song from 1993 11 years later and he tells us how he does not know what her face looks like. Maria says she's dying, through the door I hear her crying, why? I don't know... Isn't it great how much we can relate because we all have this Maria in stronger or less strong variations? A part of us that screams and that asks for being loved and understood, yet we cannot even hear let alone understand that part of...us? How Maria strives to leave far, run away to see highways and sunsets and admire long summer nights. We grow old and we see the world around us lose its shimmering light that we saw it in as a child and for some a world shatters. And it comes down to the most basic of needs. A kiss when you are leaving, a hug when you are falling into the sheer bottomless mess of your feelings. So crude, so genuine, so heart-wrenching. But of course in the end, Maria may be something else for you than for me. And that's great. Because that's what music is for. Take care!
@@Punkgurly15 Thank you so much for your appreciation for this song. It's so great to see people come back to this version and fall in love again. I just re-read my comment while the song was running in the back and I was sucked in again by the wave of emotions. So many things have changed in my life and I am staying up very late sometime, but what is it around me...? Take care!
@@Rollonator I really wish that I could add more to this fantastic thread and reply - but you've obviously done far more research on Adam than I have. I do know that he had/has some serious psychological issues that he finally "came out" about midway through his career and finally sought treatment for it. For me, my "Maria" goes to two things: the piece of someone that's in everything I write is a friend of mine who passed when we were in our teens and, (to go back to Mrs. Potter again) "I can bleed like anyone but I need someone to help me sleep".
"Round Here" simply has to be the best written song of all time. Adam can sing it with a hundred different lyrics a hundred different ways and it takes on new meaning each and every time you hear it. No other song can come close to it.
He stood up straight. My pilot son Zack was playing this on his guitar the night before he crashed into the sea in rain under a low cloud base and died on Friday 11 January 2002. Killed by the substandard maintenance of his employer.
So long ago but time never heals all the wounds. Pain remains. Is there anything we can hold onto, she said? Is this life to me, she said. Sorry to hear you suffered such a terrible loss. Around here, we all should stand up straight together.
That gasping.... Goosebumps every time for over 11 minutes. How can one have so much pain and put this pain in so much love, into such a tremendous song. I love Counting Crows.
He did a version of Goodnight Elisabeth in particular that made me feel that way too. "Goes boom boom, boom boom, boom boom..." singing his own heart beat. Heart breaking in fact.
Adam Duritz is the reason I kept writing, And the reason why I improve songs to this day...He was the greatest at making up new lyrics to songs in concert off the top and making it still feel emotional...and he never sang the same song the same way during shows, Who here is waiting for the new album rumor we keep hearing about!!!
This has been one of my all time favorite songs from the day it came out. This is an excellent version. Every live version of this song has something new to offer. I can't express how powerful Round Here is. This is a song is filled with so much emotion that it spills out of my mind.
This is THE version!!! Thanks!! I got this version once on a Pinkpop Sampler cd, from what year, I don't know... The CD got stolen and I never heard it eversince :D
For anyone wondering this is Live At Elysée Montmartre, Paris, 1994. 'A murder of one' from the same show is also really cool. You can actually find the songs on the August and everything after (Deluxe version)
Hungry hungry hippos. Male or female. ❤ I love how he says “everybody is tired of something”. It’s a great song. Love how he takes all this time to sing from any female perspective. I guess we’re all just waiting for mothers and fathers to be mothers and fathers.
@horrabletypoe -- Actually, I do read comments and no, I had no idea this version was on the deluxe version of August and Everything After. Thanks for the info!
The live version from Sydney is also amazing. I also like the version from the Howard Stern show. When Adams says, "Just tell me one thing.....you will remember....about me" it kills me.
Thank you SO much. I downloaded this as you did years ago but it was incomplete, I've listened to the mp3 for more than 10 years even though it cuts out at 9:20. I stopped looking after a few years... You've filled a little hole in my heart :)
@ColinKatz -- OOH! You should upload some of the other songs from that show. I would love to hear others from the night. I'm going to subscribe to your videos
You can find this song and more from the Montmartre concert on the August and everything after deluxe edition. Amazing song(s)/CD's/Band/Singer/lyrics....
here underneath the stars she said... well i am naked in front of you... you do what you want to do... but i want to be like you... tell me that you love me...
![Counting Crows - Round Here [Live at the Sydney Opera House, 10/04/13]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6PMxpdPLm-k/mqdefault.jpg)
Ten years ago in high school Id listen to this song, this version over and over throughout the duration of school. It brought me solace during tough times. I've shed many tears while playing it.. I find myself here again listening to it again, crying. I wish I could say it gets easier, but it doesn't.. You just find ways to cope.. I hope if you find yourself reading this now.. I hope you stay, despite everything telling you to leave. Please stay
This is such an amazing and incredible comment.
Me too
Epic version of an amazing song, brings back sad memories of opportunities wasted.
This version is so powerful. Can you imagine the trillions of people missing out on this gem?
Isn't it awesome, how Maria tells us so much about Adam? And how, on the other hand, Maria tells us so much about ourselves? While Maria is Adam's female incarnation he intereacts with her like she was a different person, he unwraps his deepest feelings, crude and uncensored, harsh and hurtful. Feelings that seem to envoke something in ourselves as we listen to this song.
Because despite all this being a reflection of Adam's feelings, we all have them inside ourselves, too.
How does it feel to be all alone under the sun, we ask ourselves?
Especially in this version, so early indeed, 1994, this song had just developed into something that powerful, Maria exposes herself like never before.
Underneath the stars she said, tell me that you love me. Do what you wanna do, she said.
I don't wanna be like you, she said. Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone.
She reveals herself, naked, undisguised and yet he is incapabable of seeing her. Incapable, in fact, of seeing all the things in life that really matter. Until they are gone.
And while Maria sits in the back crying, he doesn't understand. Because we all got shit to deal with, we are all tired of something, right?
Some things you keep, some things you were never meant to lose, Adam sings in another rendition of this song.
Because we want to be seen, but no one can ever see us the way we do. Trapped in this slippery slope
we may get dismayed that, no matter how desperate we look for something that caters to our every need, nothing will match to the things in our souls.
Can't you see my walls, they are crumbling? Can't you see my moon stopped flashing around? Can't you see the sky all green, black, brown and grey.
Where is this place where we all stand up straight and we all carved out our names that mean something?
I can stay up very late and nobody makes me frickin' wait because I don't frickin see anyone anymore. I cannot see nothing around here.
So maybe kiss me if I am leaving, catch me when I am falling, hold me because I am lonely without you?
How stupid I never utter these wishes directly. How inconvenient I am a victim of my own feelings that fade endlessly.
This comment is 2 years old. I liked it 1 year ago. And it's still the best fucking comment.
This is a beautiful comment but Maria was a real person and a dysfunctional relationship he was in.
Although upon thinking about it, it does actually make your case more relevant - what do those relationships that we will never forget (e.g Mrs. Jones - "there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing") our interactions with those individuals, both then and how we recall over time - say about us emotionally and psychologically?
@@searchingfororion Thank you for your comment, you made me come back here after three years.
Some of what you say is indeed true, Maria is based for a part on a friend of his that he admired. But I think it was an episode of Story Tellers where he said that Maria is this character he came up with for Round Here and she is him in many ways. It is a song about him, he adds, before the band starts off playing. He says it in a more recent video where he is directly asked about her. Maria is the personification of the feelings that make him write songs ruclips.net/video/3lkr-bhXv2M/видео.html.
By the way, in A Murder of One, he sings about a dysfunctional relationship of a good friend of his. A marriage that turned to horror but her being too afraid to leave.
How much of that contains Maria?
As a side note for you to fall in love with this album even more:
Every song starting from Round Here, to Mister Jones and Sullivan Street are about leaving, running away, becoming a star. How to get out of where you are or how you got out of there (I am long, long gone from there - Sullivan Street) and reminisce about the past.
And Murder of One, the last song on the album, is all about staying. Staying for you don't want to be alone, she sees no value in her beyond the destructive relationship she is in. This comes out very poignantly in the acoustic version of the song of over eight minutes where she says 'How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people, how does it feel to be under the sun?'
So, in August and Everything After, it comes down to running away and getting lost in the search for oneself but it ends in staying for the wrong reasons. His profoundness hits me hard whenever I try to make sense out of all of it.
As you also quoted so well, a little bit of her is in every song that he sings.
In the 2014 album Somewhere Under Wonderland in the song 'John Appleseed's Lament' he starts off with 'I step out the front door into winter...' very similar to Round Here. And later Maria appears, he calls the wind Maria because he does not her face. He came back to this song from 1993 11 years later and he tells us how he does not know what her face looks like. Maria says she's dying, through the door I hear her crying, why? I don't know...
Isn't it great how much we can relate because we all have this Maria in stronger or less strong variations? A part of us that screams and that asks for being loved and understood, yet we cannot even hear let alone understand that part of...us? How Maria strives to leave far, run away to see highways and sunsets and admire long summer nights. We grow old and we see the world around us lose its shimmering light that we saw it in as a child and for some a world shatters. And it comes down to the most basic of needs. A kiss when you are leaving, a hug when you are falling into the sheer bottomless mess of your feelings. So crude, so genuine, so heart-wrenching.
But of course in the end, Maria may be something else for you than for me. And that's great. Because that's what music is for.
Take care!
@@Punkgurly15 Thank you so much for your appreciation for this song. It's so great to see people come back to this version and fall in love again.
I just re-read my comment while the song was running in the back and I was sucked in again by the wave of emotions.
So many things have changed in my life and I am staying up very late sometime, but what is it around me...?
Take care!
@@Rollonator I really wish that I could add more to this fantastic thread and reply - but you've obviously done far more research on Adam than I have. I do know that he had/has some serious psychological issues that he finally "came out" about midway through his career and finally sought treatment for it.
For me, my "Maria" goes to two things: the piece of someone that's in everything I write is a friend of mine who passed when we were in our teens and, (to go back to Mrs. Potter again) "I can bleed like anyone but I need someone to help me sleep".
"Round Here" simply has to be the best written song of all time. Adam can sing it with a hundred different lyrics a hundred different ways and it takes on new meaning each and every time you hear it. No other song can come close to it.
Beautiful, beautiful song. If all live covers of ANY song had that intensity, we'd be in music heaven.
Damn it's good.
He stood up straight. My pilot son Zack was playing this on his guitar
the night before he crashed into the sea in rain under a low cloud base and died
on Friday 11 January 2002. Killed by the substandard maintenance of his
employer.
So long ago but time never heals all the wounds. Pain remains.
Is there anything we can hold onto, she said? Is this life to me, she said.
Sorry to hear you suffered such a terrible loss. Around here, we all should stand up straight together.
This is pure GOLD and everything that speaks to why I have loved Adam Duritz since I was 14.
That gasping.... Goosebumps every time for over 11 minutes. How can one have so much pain and put this pain in so much love, into such a tremendous song. I love Counting Crows.
He did a version of Goodnight Elisabeth in particular that made me feel that way too. "Goes boom boom, boom boom, boom boom..." singing his own heart beat. Heart breaking in fact.
@@theinqov Oh wow, by chance can you share that version?
@@Rollonator I just posted on your channel page under discussions, left a link for you, I'll remove that later, let me know if you get it :)
This is an amazing version … one of my fav live songs to listen to
Adam Duritz is the reason I kept writing, And the reason why I improve songs to this day...He was the greatest at making up new lyrics to songs in concert off the top and making it still feel emotional...and he never sang the same song the same way during shows, Who here is waiting for the new album rumor we keep hearing about!!!
This has been one of my all time favorite songs from the day it came out. This is an excellent version. Every live version of this song has something new to offer. I can't express how powerful Round Here is. This is a song is filled with so much emotion that it spills out of my mind.
love this version, so much emotion
Makes my skin crawl everytime i hear it..They've proven by far they're the best band ever..Love it..
There will is not or never will be any band that is greater than the counting crows
Well I don't know about all that but I do love them...
this is my favorite version of this song!!!
best version by far. 'ethereal' is the word for this version
the best version ever, i belive that never can ear it again, thanks for share...
Great! One of my favourite 90's songs that also brought me to tears. Thanks for upload - now I can cry again with extended version ...
Best version
This will always be my favorite version. The guitar riff at 5:16 fits perfectly
This is THE version!!! Thanks!! I got this version once on a Pinkpop Sampler cd, from what year, I don't know... The CD got stolen and I never heard it eversince :D
This is THE version!!! Thanks! I had this on a Pinkpop Sampler CD for I don't know... what year.
I know its been 9 years. But i just bought that pinkpop sampler at the thrift store, hence why im here. Its from 1997. Bit late, but better than never
this is just awesome, thanks for sharing such masterpiece
I am so glad you posted this thank you so much! This version gave me the goosebumps and made me so happy thank you.
the crows always beautiful...truly beautiful
For anyone wondering this is Live At Elysée Montmartre, Paris, 1994. 'A murder of one' from the same show is also really cool. You can actually find the songs on the August and everything after (Deluxe version)
Such a great performance.thank u4sharing
I love every version of this song!
Just wow..."Round here we walk like lions but we sacrifice just like lambs."
Ypu are ALL instruments of God with a very specific and special gift , each different in which pertaining to life. Tun3 your body's to God.
Best version ever!!!!! Love it so much!!
Hungry hungry hippos. Male or female. ❤ I love how he says “everybody is tired of something”. It’s a great song. Love how he takes all this time to sing from any female perspective. I guess we’re all just waiting for mothers and fathers to be mothers and fathers.
@horrabletypoe -- Actually, I do read comments and no, I had no idea this version was on the deluxe version of August and Everything After. Thanks for the info!
I heard this version in 1999 wif modem 356kbs lol. Thanks for bringing it back!
I remember this from Napster lol best version
Omg limewire
@TonyDracon also win mx?
i too found this version back in 2007. so glad that you posted it. thanks
Thank you so much, I've been looking for this one. Best version of this already incredible song.
this is the best version of any song ever
The live version from Sydney is also amazing. I also like the version from the Howard Stern show. When Adams says, "Just tell me one thing.....you will remember....about me" it kills me.
i downloaded this song from napster back in 1999. Just put CC on and then remembered.... 'paris 94 live'..... and here it is. AMAZING!
By far the best version of this song.
Still back here in 2021 :)
There is nothing that is better than this
Thank you so very much for sharing x
Best version ever...
thanks, this version is so perfect.
Yea, I got this bootleg
my favourite version.
Thank you SO much. I downloaded this as you did years ago but it was incomplete, I've listened to the mp3 for more than 10 years even though it cuts out at 9:20. I stopped looking after a few years... You've filled a little hole in my heart :)
This performance totally freaked me out like no performance has ever freaked me out before.
Aaaaarrrrgh, lol. That cracked me up. Thanks for posting though! Favorite version of this song
So good!
Incredible concert
best version by far! any other songs from this concert!?!?!?!?!?!?
ha... glad I could help.
Perfection.
LOVE THIS WORSHIP SONG! MAKES ME THINK OF MY FIRST LOVE JESUS!
fuck off with your gee gee shit
@ColinKatz -- OOH! You should upload some of the other songs from that show. I would love to hear others from the night. I'm going to subscribe to your videos
You can find this song and more from the Montmartre concert on the August and everything after deluxe edition.
Amazing song(s)/CD's/Band/Singer/lyrics....
It's on the deluxe version of August & Everything After, from iTunes.
top-two version of "round here." the 10-minute "across teh wire version" is also good! thx!!
want to see the video, best music.
marvellous
Amazing version,,Ever ...For Fucking Sake..!!
4:00 onwards, perfection
Well I'm on top of everything
"aaahhhhhhhrrrrgggggggggg"
"GASP GASP GASP GASP"
Is it true that this particular performance came the night he discovered Kurt Cobain had died?
The year is 1994 by the way.
wanna freak yourself out? Look at ANY counting crows video and there ericsson123abc is with the exact same comment madness. It's stunning, really.
0 dislike as of post = win
@ericsson123abc -- Why are you spamming the video with broken English comments?
“Aaarrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhh”
here underneath the stars she said... well i am naked in front of you... you do what you want to do... but i want to be like you... tell me that you love me...
Thank you for this! This is the version I've been looking for, for quite some time.