A Murder of One
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"A Murder of One" is a song by Counting Crows, released as the fourth single from their debut album, August and Everything After.
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"One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck.
A Murder of One
…with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow." "Murder" is a term used to refer to a group of crows. The band's name, Counting Crows, and a line from this song…
Three magpies in a tree
One magpie at the birth of Jesus, perhaps presaging sorrow for Mary: Piero della Francesca's The Nativity
Children's game hopscotch played in Lancashire, England with lyric close to the 1846 version of the rhyme