Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
“Earthquake Drive” is the third single from Counting Crows' 2014 album, Somewhere Under Wonderland. Adam Duritz told Team Rock most of the lyrics are “making fun of things”. Its music video follows a man throughout his day using stop-motion animation.
I was born again a little north of Disneyland
Somewhere under Wonderland
In Hollywood
But then I had to go
Skipping and diving and bouncing
Back to New York City
Straight through the heart of America
Where all the wild things grow
I wanna be an earthquake driver
I wanna be an aquarium diver
I just don’t wanna go home
I live alone,but I am hungry for affection
I just struggle with connection
Til the water calls me home
Down under the ocean
Among millions of other lonely people
Drowning among the only people
We are ever going to know
I wanna be an earthquake driver
I wanna be an aquarium diver
I just don't wanna go home
I wanna be like the people I see
They want a rover just like me
I wanna stay but what keeps me away is
I’m tied into the lightning line
I wanna see if the sun is shining
Long night’s just a waste of time
I don’t wanna see people like me
Just sleeping and waking and hoping and hating and…
You look at me like I’m a carnival attraction
You say “Love is an abstraction
Just some ghost that you chase”
Well, I am a cypher
I am a blank space
Filled up with words you remember
From whenever you see my face
I wanna be an earthquake driver
I don’t wanna be an aquarium diver
I just don’t wanna go home
I wanna be like all the people I see
They want a rover just like me
I wanna stay but what keeps me away
Is I’m plugged into the lightning line
I wanna be where the sun is shining all night
Chasing time
I don’t wanna be with people like me
Just creeping and waking and
Hoping and hating and…
What is the price for all this fame and self-absorption?
We turn ourselves into orphans
And then spend our nights alone
Living in fear of some imaginary consequence
Terror incognito
O-bla-di
Libido
I wanna be an earthquake driver
I don’t wanna be an aquarium diver
I just don’t wanna go home
Truth is, I don't wanna be no earthquake driver
And I do not want to be an aquarium diver
But hey, I just don't wanna go home
Oh man, just don't wanna go home
Oh, I do not wanna go home
Earthquake Driver was written by David Immergluck & Adam Duritz.
Earthquake Driver was produced by Brian Deck.
Counting Crows released Earthquake Driver on Tue Sep 02 2014.
Adam Duritz explained that the protagonist of this song is:
…a guy who can’t figure out whether he wants to be in a small pond or a big pond. He wants to make a difference, he wants his life to mean something, but he can’t decide whether it’s okay to do that.
Duritz also shared:
I kind of treated...