Earthquake Driver - Counting Crows

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 some kind of 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 saw my face

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

Hey man, 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 see people like me

Just creeping and waking and hoping and hating and

Now what is the price for all of 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, ob-la-di, li-bi-do

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 an earthquake driver

And I do not want to be an aquarium diver

But hey, I just don’t wanna go home

Oh man, I just don’t wanna go home

Oh, I do not wanna go home