Possibility Days - Counting Crows

It was a cold 3 a.m. at JFK

I guess you stayed because you wanted to stay

And we went from zero to everything all in a day

And then Kennedy took you away

I thought of a short robe that was keeping you warm

And the moments that make up your life 'til you wake up

You sit on a swing in the dark with a girl

And she tells you she wanted to kiss you

And you know The worst part of a good day

Is hearing yourself say goodbye to one more possibility day

It goes on and on

I go west but your weather has changed

You’re just scared

I mistake it for strange

When you want me to leave

Then you start to believe I should stay

But I gotta get out of LA

It seems like the short days are over

'Cause you just don’t sleep in the daylight so I don’t sit up nights

I lie on my back on the top of a hill

And your body is breaking the sky

Cause you’re shaking

And the worst part of a good day is knowing it’s slipping away

That’s one more possibility day that is gone

We were waiting for winter this year

But you came and it never appeared

Me and you, we know too many reasons

For people and seasons that pass like they weren’t even here

Now «Living in smiles is better», you say

But we carry the burdens of all of our days

So I’m scared that you’ll leave and you’re scared that I’ll stay

It’s an impossibility day

And we only saw half the ballet

I said goodnight, goodbye

It seems like a good thing so you know it’s a good lie

You can run out of choices

And still hear a voice in your head when you’re lying in bed

And it says that the best part of a bad day is knowing it’s okay

The color of everything changes

The sky rearranges its shade and your smile doesn’t fade

Into a phone call and one bad decision we made

And the worst part of a good day is the one thing you don’t say

And you don’t know how but you wish there was some way

So you pull down the shades and you shut off the lights

Because somehow we mixed up «Goodbye» and «Goodnight»

And the one thing you won’t say is

«Everyone knows possibility days are impossible.»

It just feels wrong

So wrong

Still you’re gone

Long gone