Discover the story of the song > American Girls – Counting Crows

The song is about a girl who goes out every Friday and stands in line, waiting for her partner. She feels like she could have been with anyone, but she waits a week to break down. The girl keeps her emotions hidden, locking herself away when she needs to, and she has something fragile inside of her. The lyrics also mention how she makes the protagonist feel incredible. The protagonist talks about how he could find something similar to what the girl gives him anywhere, so it's okay if she goes away. The girl asks the protagonist to come back again and he says he might go. The protagonist waits for her one night but she never shows up, and he realizes she took almost everything from him. He tries on her clothes everyday and wishes that he could have been anyone else. The song ends talking about pills and ashes under the protagonist's skin and how the girl plays the changes for all the boys. If the protagonist made her cry, she asks him to let her try again.