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Elliott Smith - 10. 14. 99 1 - lyrics

The big problem is the main attraction
Dominoes are falling in a chain reaction
The scraping subject ruled by fear told me
Whiskey lifes better than beer
The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final
And nobody gets a reprieve
And everyway this title if you hang around
Youre going to get well
I cant prepare for death any more than I already have
All you can do now is watch the shelves
The game looks easy thats why it sells
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
Are going to stand and deliver talk instead
The method acting that pays my bills
Keeps the fat man pheening in beverly hills
I got a heavy metal mouth in hilltop city
And I get my check from the trash treasury
Cos I took my own insides out
It dont matter cos I had no sex life
All I want to do now is eject my ex wife
Ive seen the movie and I know what happens
Its a christmas time
And the needles on the tree
A skinny santa is bringing something to me
His voice is overwhelming, but his speech is slurred
And I only understand every other word
Open your parachute and grab your gun
Falling down like an omen, my setting sun
Read the part and we turn out fine
Its a hell of a role if you can bring it alive
But I dont care if I ***** up
Im going on a date with a rich white lady
Aint life great?
Give me one good reason not to do it
This is a place where time reverses
Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses
Instruments shine on a silver train
Dont let me be carried away
Dont let me be carried away
Dont let me be carried away

Elliott Smith - 10. 14. 99 2 - lyrics

The sweet hot(? ) of the passing hour
My make ups starting to crack
People talk behind my back
And I dont like that
See the man of the moment
Trying to get himself in my shot
Telling everyone hes not
Confidence artist
Theres so many people
Theres so many people
Theres so many people
You gotta settle the score
Look a little bit closer now
See if the side you can take
The suspense has to got break
And it will someday
Still life in a darkened room
Will be flooded with light
And it might make you uptight
But you wont die from exposure
Theres so many people
Theres so many people
Theres so many people
You gotta settle the score
Theres so many people
Too many people
No no no
Im just enchanted now
Some other time
If youre seeing something
That youre not supposed to see
Youll be charged a penalty
And youll pay forever
I been working night and day
Building sets on a lot
In a land that time forgot
Captured here in my camera
Theres so many people
Theres so many people
Theres so many people
You gotta settle the score
Theres so many people
Too many people
No no no
Im too enchanted now
Some other time
Some other time

Elliott Smith - 7. 17. 94 - lyrics

They come here alone and they leave in twos
Except for you and me who just come to use if
Youre all done like you said youd be
What are you doin hangin out with me?
Why do you tell me stuff thats so plainly untrue?
If youll be straight with me, Ill be straighter with you
And if youre all done like you said youd been
What are you doin hangin out with me?
I havent wanted to do anything for a long time
But whatever you got right
Now, would probably suit me fine
And if youre all done like you said youd be
What are you doin hangin out with me?
I havent wanted to do anything for a long time
But whatever youre doin now
Would probably suit me fine
And if youre all done like you said youd be
What are you doin hangin out with me?
What are you doin hangin out with me?

Elliott Smith - 1. 4. 98 - lyrics

Youll make the scene like you always do.
Goin upstream down the ave. to ***** some
Trophy boy that youll win tonight at the bar.
So bad, so far. youll make him sad, shooting star.
When it was me, I was mementarily proud;
Full of dreams now Im glad
I didnt say out loud, hoping youd be for real
When I dont believe that you are.
So bad, so far. you make me sad, shooting star.
Distant and cold and a sight to behold.
Everybody sighs. no one gets on
With you very long, cus you dont feel bad
When you lie.
Im goin to sleep now,
Which I guess would be step 1.
Step 2 is where I can deal with the thing
Youve just done.
It wont be soon, to say the least its gonna
Be hard.
So bad, so far. you made me sad, shooting star.

Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell - lyrics

the litebrite's now black and white
cause you took apart a picture that wasn't right
pitch burning on a shining sheet
the only maker that you want to meet
a dying man in a living room
who's shadow paces the floor
who'll take you out in the open door
this is not my life
it's just a fond farewell to a friend
it's not what i'm like
it's just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn't get things right
fond farewell to a friend
he said really i just wanna dance
good and evil matched perfect it's a great romance
i can deal with some physic pain
if it'll slow down my higher brain
veins full of disappearing ink
vomiting in the kitchen sink
disconnecting from the missing link
this is not my life
it's just a fond farewell to a friend
it's not what i'm like
it's just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn't get things right
fond farewell to a friend
i see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy
the cold comfort of the in between
a little less than a human being
a little less than a happy high
a little less than a suicide
the only things that you really tried
this is not my life
it's just a fond farewell to a friend
it's not what i'm like
it's just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn't get things right
fond farewell to a friend
this is not my life
it's just a fond farewell to a friend

Elliott Smith - Alameda - lyrics

You walk down alameda shuffling your deck of trick cards over everyone
Like some precious only son
Face down, bow to the champion
You walk down alameda looking at the cracks in the sidewalk
Thinking about your friends
How you maintain all them in a constant state of suspense
For your own protection over their affection
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you cant finish what you start
Walk down alameda brushing off the nightmare you wish
Could plague me when Im awake
And now you see your first mistake was thinking that you could relate
For one or two minutes she liked you
But the fix is in
Youre all pretension
I never pay attention
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you cant finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you cant finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own because you cant finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
If youre alone it must be you that wants to be apart

Elliott Smith - 2: 45 Am - lyrics

Im going out sleepwalking
Where mute memories start talking
The boss that couldnt help but hurt you
And the pretty thing he made desert you
Im going out now like a baby
A nave unsatisfiable baby
Grabbing onto whatevers around
For the soaring high or the crushing down
With hidden cracks that dont show
But that constantly just grow
Im looking for the man that attacked me
While everybody was laughing at me
You beat it in me that part of you
But Im gonna split us back in two
Tired of living in a cloud
If youre gonna say shit now youll do it out loud
Its 2:45 in the morning
And Im putting myself on warning
For waking up in an unknown place
With a recollection youve half erased
Looking for somebodys arms to
Wave away past harms
Im walking out on center circle
The both of you can just fade to black
Im walking out on center circle
Been pushed away and Ill never go back

Elliott Smith - A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free - lyrics

I'm floating in a black balloon
OD on Easter afternoon
My momma told me,
"Baby stay clean, there's no in between."
All you ladies and you gentlemen
Between's all you've ever seen or been,
Fit poorly and and arrange the sight
Doll it up in virgin white.
You disappoint me
You people raking in on the world
The devil's script sells
You the heart of a blackbird.
Shine on me baby
'Cause it's raining in my heart.
Sun rising on a chopping glare
Rain dropping acid blotter in the air
Distorted reality's now a necessity
To be free.
So disappointing,
First I put it all down to luck
God knows why my
Country don't give a ***** (*****).
Shine on me baby
'Cause it's raining in my heart.
Shine on me baby
'Cause it's raining in my heart.

Elliott Smith - A Living Will - lyrics

Time to kill ? living will and gave it to
The man in the moon
But Im gonna get by? soon this happy
Face is watching me die
Elevate me to another world
All that I can do on my own
Is leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone
Circumstance dropped by uninvited and
Demanded ? ? ?
But Ive already gone to bed theres nothing
You can see from inside
My spirit arose and put on my clothes
And helped me disconnect to the phone
To leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone
? ? ? I cant figure out this line at all ? ? ?
First its all a reaction, now its all ?
? by the stations stop and realitys invading
My brain
The cops gonna search the train theyll take
Away whatever they find
But I dont have the thoughts you want, just a
Memory of ? ? ?
A vision that turns to stone
Leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone
Leave well enough alone

Elliott Smith - A Passing Feeling - lyrics

Everything is gone but the echo of the burst of a shell
And I'm stuck here (I'm) waiting for a passing feeling
In the city I built up and blew to hell
I'm stuck here (I'm) waiting for a passing feeling
Still I send all the time
My request for relief
Down the dead power line
Though I'm beyond belief
In the help I require
Just to exist at all
Took a long time to stand
Took an hour to fall.
I'm stuck here (I'm) waiting for a passing feeling
Stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
Still I send all the time
My request for relief
Down the dead power line
Though I'm beyond belief
In the help I require
Just to exist at all
Took a long time to stand
Took an hour to fall

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