I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen

When the lights go up
I wanna watch the way you take the stage by storm
The way you wrap those boys around your finger
Go on and play the leader

'Cause you know it's what you're good at
The low road for the fast track, make every second last

'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen

Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd

Doesn't that mean
You'll be the showgirl of the home team
I'll be the narrator
Telling another tale of the American dream

I see your name in lights
We could make you a star
Girl, we'll take the world by storm
It isn't that hard

'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen

Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd, whoa

Take a breath, don't it sound so easy?
Never had a doubt, now I'm going crazy
Watching from the floor

Take a breath and let the rest come easy
Never settle down 'cause the cash flow leaves me
Always wanting more

'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen

Make it count
When I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd

'Cause I got your picture, I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle



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Track duration: 03:03

"Dear Maria, Count Me In" as written by Jack Bassam Barakat, Robert Ryan Dawson, Alexander William Gaskarth, Zachary Steven Merrick

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    Memory:I'm good friends with this guy, and he would always ask me what I was going to do when I got out of high school. I told him that i'd become a stripper, and we laughed about it. A few weeks later we were driving and we heard this song and he goes "This is about you!" and now it's our song :) lol
    Flag Cheer101on September 07, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:its about a striper =)
    Flag shutupforgoodgodon July 28, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i absolutely love all time low and this song is amazing, so are most of their others
    so far i havent found a song from them that i dont like
    and i love the fact that they have almost no slow songs.
    you got to admit that fast songs are so much more fun to listen to and most of the time easier to dance to! :D

    my friend hates all time low cause she thinks they write songs only about one night stands and that their music sux but i think that she is
    damn wrong!!!!!! :D

    Flag hypersaraon April 28, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:You idiots this song is about a stripper.
    Flag leaderofthegangstercrewon June 20, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:a girl in his high school or something become a stripper
    Flag canofan360on April 16, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This song is about a good friend of Alex, she told him she was going to become a stripper, Alex thought it was hilarious but he was willing to help her get huge. Hence,


    Girl, we'll take the world by storm
    It isn't that hard

    Because ATL was already famous by then and he has experience
    Flag randommusicon October 28, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:The lyrics are right except it's "when the lights go UP", not "OFF".

    I love how this song is about a stripper. Ha. And yet they gave it a good message ((making her into something more)).

    These lyrics are so much better than the original ones Alex came up with... ha. (("You take the chorus, I've got you covered on the hook, just take a look at all the lights in this town, they'll drown you out"))

    I love ATL. <33
    Flag kelsilouon October 19, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i watched an interview and they said that its about a girl in their town that confided in them that she was a stripper, so they wrote a song about it.
    Flag punkrocker9997on August 18, 2009   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:hi everyone.

    i like this song's video so much. but i don't understand some part of the lyrics, which is...

    There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
    And I'm the pen


    what does "the pen" mean? why a story is at the bottom of this bottle?

    i'm not native speaker. please help me.
    Flag nitorantion June 30, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:For the record I have kept quiet about it because I didn't care and I wanted to see what people wrote about me, I did not date Alex, and I NEVER told him I was a stripper, he found out from a friend, I am not famous. and I had to disappear off the face of the earth because I had too many people coming in to find me and basically stalk me, Thanks
    Flag MiaBaltimoreon May 16, 2009   Link

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