A Murder of One

Infobox Single
Name = A Murder of One


Artist = Counting Crows
from Album = August and Everything After
Released = 1995
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Geffen
Writer = Adam Duritz, David Bryson
Producer = T-Bone Burnett
Last single = "Rain King"
(1995)
This single = "A Murder of One"
(1995)
Next single = "Angels of the Silences"
(1996)

"A Murder of One" is a song by the Counting Crows, released as the fourth single from their debut album, "August And Everything After".

Frontman Adam Duritz explained the song's meaning:

"I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, 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."Fact|date=October 2007

The song was featured in a 2004 episode of "Scrubs", entitled "My Porcelain God."