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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
something's happening don't
speak to soon i told the boss off and made my move got nowhere to go son of sam son of the shining path the clouded mind the couple killer each and every time i'm not uncomfortable feeling weird lonely leeved options disappear but i know what to do son of sam son of a doctor's touch a nurse's love acting on orders from above king for a day son of sam son of the shining path the clouded mind the couple killer running out of time shiva opens her arms now to make sure i don't get too far i may talk in my sleep tonight 'cos i don't know what i am i'm a little like you more like son of sam |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
I had tender feelings that you made hard
but it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred so when I go home I'll be happy to go you're just somebody that I used to know you don't need my help anymore it's all now to you, there ain't no before now that you're big enough to run your own show you're just somebody that I used to know I watched you deal in a dying day and throw a living past away so you can be sure that you're in control you're just somebody that I used to know I know you don't think you did me wrong and I can't stay this mad for long keeping ahold of what you just let go you're just somebody that I used to know |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
the imitation picks you up
like a habit riding in the glow of the tv static taking out the trash to the man give the people something they understand mistake a nervous flash for a fine line smile junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a stock rich man in a poor man's clothes the permanent installment of the daily dose and you tell me fool you tell it like it is your wall's gone wider than your head trip is checking into a small reality void as a drug you take too regularly the apple needs to laugh the broken crutch the first two folded at the slightest touch brought down like an old hotel people digging through the rubble for things they can resell happy holidays said sid the saviour believe in love i still favour I won't take your medicine I don't need a remedy to be everything i'm supposed to be I don't want nobody else I can do it by myself we're meant to be together now i'm a policeman directing traffic keeping everything moving everything static I'm the hitchhiker you recognize passing on your way to some everlasting better sell it while you can better sell it while you can better sell it while you can better sell it while you can |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
I never really had a problem because of leaving But everything reminds me of her this evening So if I seem a little out of it, sorry Why should I lie? Everything remends me of her The spin of the earth impaled the silhouette of the sun on the steeple And I got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people Why are you staring into outer space, crying? Just because you came across it, and lost it Everything reminds me of her Everything reminds me of her Everything reminds me of her
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
Someone found the futureas a statuein a fountian at attentionlooking backwardin a pool of water wisheswitha bluesongbird on his shoulder whokeeps singing over everythingEverything Means Nothing to MeEverything Means Nothing to MeEverything Means Nothing to Mei picked up the song and foundmy picturein the paper the reflectionin the water showed an iron manstill trying to salutepeople from a timewhen he was everything he'ssupposed to beEverything Means Nothing to Me
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
The gentleman's in the lane
spinning his hat on a cane stepping out out for a change good morning all it's a beautiful day the general's are winning a war seemed suicidal before you come along now I'll protect you long as you stay LA morning had to come I'd be walking in the sun living in the day but last night i was about to throw it all away if patience started a band I'd be her biggest fan look at me I'm talking to you I don't want the lead in your play The star's just a part of the scene the gentelman in green paying off out on the street I can't go home it's not on my way LA things I'd never done cars parked in the sun living in the day but last night i was about to throw it all away last night i was about to throw it all away last night i was about to throw it all away last night i was about to throw it all away |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
He held his breath
to hold your hand to walk the stairsteps in paris climbing up the slippery slope I'm in love love I hope don't go home angelina stay with me hanging around in the lost and found Kissed you quick feeling weird lonely leaved and disappeared this is such a simple place passing time can't erase don't go home angelina paint tomorrow blue Day breaks and every morning when he wakes he thinks of you I'm alone that's okay I don't mind most of the time I don't feel afraid to die she was here passing by don't go home agelina stay with me hanging around in the lost and found stay with me hanging around in the lost and found |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
Got a foot in the door
God knows what foor And he'll cut me down to size Stupidity tries Everything here is free Everything but you and me This painting never dries Stupidity tries Savannah shoulder raised a cheer Color in the sky with ash Because they found some privateer To sail across a sea of trash The enemy is within Don't confuse me with him The truth is otherwise Stupidity tries And so I go from floor to floor Looking for a port of call Another drunk conquistador Conquering the governor's ball I couldn't think of a thing That I hope tomorrow brings Oh what a surprise Stupidity tries |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
You'll take advantage 'til you think you're being used
Cause without an enemy your anger gets confused I got stuck on the side you know, i never chose But it's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose There's no escape for you except in someone else Although you've already disappeared within yourself The invisible man who's always changing clothes It's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose Well i don't want you making mistakes I wish you luck i really do But the problem with the puzzle Whatever's left to you I heard you found another audience to bore A creative thinker who imagined you were more A new body for you to push around and pose It's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose It's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
The question
is wouldn't mama be proud There's a silver lining in the corporate cloud And the pretty post that you're taking as an NCO of the great pretender I should sure think so Wouldn't mama be proud Can I take your order asked the heavenly host ticket to the jet stream blowing coast to coast The long stem glasses a movie and a pleasent dream in mid air You gotta tell me quickly cos we're almost there Wouldn't mama be proud Pointed out of the window at the sky gone black Kid you're on the right track If I send you a postcard from the side of the road photographs of moving parts about to implode If I crawl to keep it together like you say you know I can do to transmit the moment from me to you wouldn't mama be proud wouldn't mama be proud wouldn't mama be proud wouldn't mama be proud |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
I see color bars when I come
sergeant rock broke the key off in the lock to where I come from sir, no sir, we have no power in the air the battle's on the ground laying low again, high on the sound Bruno S. is a man to me you're just some dude with a stilted attitude that you learned from TV you'll undo, but I'll be connecting everything the traffic in my town riding high again, high on the sound everyone wants me to ride into the sun but I ain't gonna go down laying low again, high on the sound |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
Activity's killing the actor
And a cop's standing out in the road Turning traffic away There was nothing she could do until after When his body'd been buried below Way back in the day Oh my Nothing else could have been done Made his life a lie so He might Never have to know anyone Made his life the lie you know I told him that he shouldn't upset her And that he'd only be making it worse Involving somebody else But I knew that he'd never forget her While her memory worked in reverse To keep her safe from herself And oh my Nothing else could have been done She made her life a lie so She might Never have to know anyone Made her life the lie you know What I used to be will pass away And then you'll see That all I want now is happiness For you and me What I used to be will pass away And then you'll see That all I want now is happiness For you and me What I used to be will pass away And then you'll see That all I want now is happiness For you and me All I want now is happiness For you and me |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
almost forgot
started to say rode into the sun past everyone hallelujah pretty mary k i found faith in the infirmary there's a soldier lying in bed with a wound to the head calling out to pretty mary k here's what you get for things that haven't happened yet i happened upon pretty mary k but a soldier's uniform waved you away i walk round the dock and talk to st. james though i'm already done and ask everyone "have you seen her?" pretty mary k have you seen her? pretty mary k |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
wish you gave me a number
wish i could call you today just to hear a voice i got a long way to go getting further away if i didn't know the difference living alone would probably be ok it wouldn't be lonely i got a long way to go getting further away a lot of hours to occupy it was easy when i didn't know you yet things i'd have to forget but i better be quiet now i'm tired of wasting my breath carrying on getting upset maybe i have a problem but that's not what i wanted to say i prefer to say nothing i got a long way to go getting further away had a dream as an army man with an order just to march in my place but a dead enemy screams in my face but i better be quiet now i'm tired of wasting my breath carrying on not over it yet wish i knew what you were doing why you want to do it this way so i can't go the distance i got a long way to go i'm getting further away i got a long way to go getting further away |
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4:19 | ||||
from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
I have become a silent movie
The hero killed the clown Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Nobody knows what he's doing Still hanging around Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Can't make a sound The slow motion moves me The monologue means nothing to me Bored in a role but he can't stop Standing up to sit back down And lose the one thing found Spinning the world like a toy top Till there's a ghost in every town Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Can't make a sound Eyes locked and shining Can't you tell me what's happening Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
because the world is round, it turns me on because the world is round
because the wind is high, it blows my mind because the wind is high love is old, love is new love is all, love is you because the sky is blue, it makes me cry because the sky is blue |
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from Keeping The Faith (키핑 더 페이스) by Elmer Bernstein [ost] (2000)
pitseleh
i'll tell you why i don't want to know where you are i got a joke i been dying to tell you a silent kid is looking down the barrel to make the noise that i kept so quiet i kept it from you, pitseleh i'm not what's missing from your life now i could never be the puzzle pieces they say that god makes problems just to see what you can stand before you do as the devil pleases and give up the thing you love but no one deserves it the first time i saw you i knew it would never last i'm not half what i wish i was i'm so angry i don't think it'll ever pass and i was bad news for you just because i never meant to hurt you |
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from The Royal Tenenbaums [Expanded] (로얄 테넌바움) by Mark Mothersbaugh [best, ost] (2001)
your hand on his arm
the haystack charm around your neck strung out and thin calling some friend trying to cash some check he's acting dumb that's what you've come to expect needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay he's wearing your clothes head down to toes a reaction to you you say you know what he did but you idiot kid you don't have a clue sometimes they just get caught in the eye you're pulling him through needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay now on the bus nearly touching this dirty retreat falling out 6th and Powell a dead sweat in my teeth gonna walk walk walk four more blocks plus the one in my brain down downstairs to the man he's gonna make it all OK I can't beat myself I can't beat myself and i don't want to talk I'm taking the cure so i can be quiet whenever I want so leave me alone you ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay needle in the hay |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Cut this picture into you and me
Burn it backwards kill this history Make it over make it stay away Or hate'll say the ending that love started to stay There's a kid a floor below me saying brother can you spare Sunshine for a brother old man winter's in the air Walked me up a story asking how you are Told me not to worry you were just a shooting star Sweet adeline Sweet adeline My clementine Sweet adeline It's a picture perfect evening and i'm staring down the sun Fully loaded deaf and dumb and done Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head Or any situation where i'm better off then dead |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Everybody knows which way
you go straight to over no one Wants to see you inside of me straight to over i heard the Hammer at the lock say you're deaf and dumb and done give Yourself another talk this time make it sound like someone the Noise is coming out, and if it's not out now, then tomorrow Tomorrow they took your life apart and called you failures art They were wrong though they wont know 'til tomorrow i got Static in my head the reflected sound of everything tried to go To where it led but it didn't lead to anything the noise is Coming out, and if it's not out now, i know it's just about to Drown tomorrow out |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
First the mic then a half cigarette
Singing cathy's clown That's the man that she's married to now That's the girl that he takes around town She appears composed, so she is, i suppose Who can really tell? She shows no emotion at all Stares into space like a dead china doll I'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow Now she's done and they're calling someone Such a familiar name I'm so glad that my memories remote 'cos i'm doing just fine hour to hour, note to note Here it is the revenge to the tune "you're no good, You're no good you're no good you're no good" Can't you tell that it's well understood I'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow I'm here today and expected to stay on and on and on I'm tired I'm tired Looking out on the substitute scene Still going strong Xo, mom It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong Tell mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone In the place where i make no mistakes In the place where i have what it takes I'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow I'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow I'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Baby britain feels the best floating
over a sea of vodka Separated from the rest Fights problems with bigger problems Sees the ocean fall and rise Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her Water pouring from her eyes Alcoholic and very bitter For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art You put yourself apart And i can't help until you start We knocked another couple back The dead soldiers lined up on the table Still prepared for an attack They didn't know they'd been disabled Felt a wave a rush of blood You won't be happy 'til the bottle's broken And you're out swimming in the flood You kept back you kept unspoken For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art You put yourself apart And i can't help until you start You got a look in your eye When you're saying goodbye Like you wanna say hi The light was on but it was dim Revolver's been turned over And now it's ready once again The radio was playing "crimson and clover" London bridge is safe and sound No matter what you keep repeating Nothing's gonna drag me down To a death that's not worth cheating For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art You put yourself apart And i can't help until you start For someone half as smart you'd be a work of art You put yourself apart |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
I'll tell you why i don't want to know
where you are I got a joke i been dying to tell you A silent kid is looking down the barrel To make the noise that i kept so quiet I kept it from you, pitseleh I'm not what's missing from your life now I could never be the puzzle pieces They say that god makes problems Just to see what you can stand Before you do as the devil pleases And give up the thing you love But no one deserves it The first time i saw you i knew it would never last I'm not half what i wish i was I'm so angry I don't think it'll ever pass And i was bad news for you just because I never meant to hurt you |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Future butterfly gonna spend the day higher than high
You'll be beautiful confusion Ooh once i was you I saw you caught between all the people out making the scene And a bright ideal tomorrow Ooh, don't go too far Stay who you are Everybody knows Everybody knows Everybody knows You only live a day But it's brilliant anyway I saw you in a perfect place It's gonna happen soon but not today So go to sleep and make the change I'll meet you here tomorrow Independence day Independence day Independence day |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
I'm a color reporter
But the city's been bled white And the doctor orders drinks all night to take away this curse But it makes me feel much worse Bled white So i wait for the f-train And connect through a friend of mine To a yesterdaydream 'cos i'll have to be high to drag the sunset down And paint this paling town Bled white So here he comes with the blank expression Especially for me 'cos he knows i feel the same 'cos happy and sad come in quick succession I'm never going to become what you became Don't you dare disturb me While i'm balancing my past 'cos you can't help or hurt me Like it already has I may not seem quite right But i'm not fucked, no quite Bled white Bled white |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Everytime the day darkens
down and goes away Pictures open in my head of me and you Silent and cliche, all the things we did and didn't say covered up by what we did and didn't do, going through Every hour I used to cop to make the repetition stop What was I supposed to say? Now I never leave my zone, I'm all alone I'm going home I wish I'd never seen your face ... |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Amity amity amity amity amity
amity amity caught stars in her Arms hello hello kitty happy in new york city amity walking like a Lucky charm i'm a neon sign and i stay open all the time So let's go, go go go Amity amity god don't make no junk but it's plain to see he still Made me he told me so: i'm good to go I'm ready to go 'cos you laugh and talk and 'cos you make my world rock I'm so, so so so Amity amity amity amity amity amity amity good to go |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Here's the silhouette the face
always turned away The bleeding color gone to black, dying like a day Couldn't figure out what made you so unhappy Shook your head to say no no no And stopped for a spell And stayed that way Oh well, okay I got pictures, i just don't see it anymore Climbing hour upon hour through a total bore With the one i keep where it never fades In the safety of a pitch black mind An airless cell that blocks the day Oh well, okay If you a get a feeling the next time you see me Do me a favor and let me know 'cos it's hard to tell It's hard to say Oh well, okay Oh well, okay Oh well, okay |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Bottle up and explode over
and over keep the troublemaker below Put it away and check out for the day And in for a round of overexposure The thing mother nature provides to get up and go Bottle up and explode seeing the stars surrounding you Red white and blue You look and him like you've never known him But i know for a fact that you have The last time you cried who'd you think was inside? Thinking that you were about to come over But i'm tired now of waiting for you You never show Bottle up and go, if you're gonna hide it's up to you I'm coming through Bottle up and go, i can make it outside I'll get though becoming you Becoming you Becoming you |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
I got a question mark
A got a need to always take some shoot in the dark I don't have to make pretend the picture i'm in is totally clear You think that all things have a way they ought to appear 'cos you know you know you know you know You know you know you know you know you know I don't I dream Don't know what you mean Panic called you out and took you in Giving you an easy game and letting you win You're giving back a little hatred now to the world 'cos it treated you bad 'cod you couldn't keep the great unknown from making you mad 'cos you know you know you know you know You know you know you know you know you know I don't I dream Don't know what you mean Said your final word, but honesty and love could've kept us together One day you'll see it's worth it after all If you ever want to say you're sorry you can give me a call |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
everybody cares, everybody understands
Yes everybody cares about you Yeah and whether or not you want them to It's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head To a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally And a quiet lie that makes you wanna scream and shout So here i lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun Raining it's guiding light upon everyone For a moment's rest you can lean against the banister After running upstairs again and again from wherever they came to fix You in but always fear the city's finest follow right behind You got a pretty vision in your head A pencil full of poison lead And a sickened smoke illegal in every town So here i lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun Raining its guiding light upon everyone Here i lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun Raining its guiding light upon everyone You say you mean well, you don't know what you mean Fucking OUGHT to stay the hell away from things you know nothing about |
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
Thought you'd be looking for the next
in line to love then ignore Put out and put away And so you'd soon be leaving me alone like i'm supposed to be tonight, Tomorrow and everyday There's nothing here that you'll miss I can guarantee you this is a cloud of smoke Trying to occupy space What a fucking joke What a fucking joke I waited for a bus to separate the both of us and take me off far away From you 'cos my feelings never change a bit i always feel like shit i Don't know why i guess that i "just do" You once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of A never-neverland and i could've gone to that place But i didn't understand I didn't understand I didn't understand |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
He's pleased to meet you underneath the horse
In the cathedral with the glass stained black Singing sweet high notes that echo back To destroy their master May be a long time til you get the call-up But it's sure as fate and hard as your luck No one'll know where you are It's just a brief smile crossing your face Running speed trials still standing in place When the socket's not a shock enough You little child what makes you think you're tough When all the people you think you're above They all know what's the matter You're such a pinball yeah you know it's true There's always something you come back running to To follow the path of no resistance It's just a brief smile crossing your face Running speed trials standing in place It's just a brief smile crossing your face Running speed trials all over the place |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
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 can't finish what you start Walk down alameda brushing off the nightmare you wish Could plague me when i'm 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 You're all pretension I never pay attention Nobody broke your heart You broke your own because you can't finish what you start Nobody broke your heart You broke your own because you can't finish what you start Nobody broke your heart You broke your own because you can't finish what you start Nobody broke your heart If you're alone it must be you that wants to be apart" |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
Throwing candy out to the crowd
Dragging down the main The helpless little thing with the dirty mouth who's always got something To say you're sitting at home now waiting for your brother to call I saw him down at the alley Having had enough of it all Said you can do what you want to whenever you want to You can do what you want to there's no one to stop you All spit and spite you're up all night and down every day A tired man with only hours to go just waiting to be taken away Getting in to the back of a car for candy from some stranger Watching the parade with pinpoint eyes full of smoldering anger You can do what you want to whenever you want to You can do what you want to there's no one to stop you Now you can do what you want to whenever you want to Do what you want to whenever you want to Do what you want to whenever you want to though it doesn't mean a thing Big nothing |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
Drink up, baby, stay up all night
The things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be that you'll never see The promises you'll only make Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days Do what i say and i'll make you okay and drive them away The images stuck in your head People you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still Drink up, baby, look at the stars, i'll kiss you again Between the bars where i'm seeing you There with your hands in the air waiting to finally be caught Drink up one more time and i'll make you mine Keep you apart deep in my heart separate from the rest Where i like you the best And keep the things you forgot The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
Start stop and start
Stupid acting smart Flirting with the flicks You say it's just for kicks You'll be the victim of your own dirty tricks You got yourself to tease and displease Doors swinging wide You walked in to hide Looking at your feet Failure's complete Saw you and me on the coin-op tv Frozen in fear every time we appear I'm not surprised and really, why should i be? See nothing wrong See nothing wrong So sick and tired of all these pictures of me Completely wrong Totally wrong Go walking by Here come another guy Jailer who sells personal hells Who'd like to see me down on my fucking knees Everybody's dying just to get the disease Hey hey hey hey I'm not surprised and really, why should i be? See nothing wrong See nothing wrong So sick and tired of all these pictures of me Completely wrong Totally wrong I'm not surprised and really, why should i be? See nothing wrong See nothing wrong So sick and tired of all these pictures of me Oh everybody's dying just to get the disease Everybody's dying just to get the disease Everybody's dying just to get the disease |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
Got bitten fingernails and a head full of the past
And everybody's gone at last A sweet sweet smile that's fading fast Cause everybody's gone at last And you don't get upset about it No not anymore There's nothing wrong That wasn't wrong before Had a second alone with a chance let pass And everybody's gone at last Well i hope you're not waiting Waiting around for me Because i'm not going anywhere Obviously Got a broken heart and your name on my cast And everybody's gone at last Everybody's gone at last |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
They asked me to come down
and watch the parade And to march down the street like the duracell bunny With a wink and a wave from the cavalcade Throwing out candy that looks like money To people passing by that all seem to be going the other way Said won't you follow me down to the rose parade? Tripped over a dog in a choke-chain collar People were shouting and pushing and saying And when i traded a smoke for a food stamp dollar A ridiculous marching band started playing And got me singing along with some half-hearted victory song Won't you follow me down to the rose parade? Won't you follow me down to the rose parade? Won't you follow me down to the rose parade? The trumpet has obviously been drinking Because he's fucking up even the simplest lines I'd say it's a sight that's quite worth seeing It's just that everyone's interest is stronger than mine And when they clean the street I'll be the only shit that's left behind Won't you follow me down to the rose parade? Won't you follow me down to the rose parade? Won't you follow me down to the rose parade? |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
A wallflower punch talks to judy
In a crowded corner where anybody can listen in But they don't read page to page or speak easy Now they're gonna go say the words In the wrong order again They walk in a circle Through all the sidewalk scenes they used to be apart of one time Now everybody just stares and whispers Driving around up and down division street I used to like it here It just bums me out to remember Can't you ever treat anyone nice? I think i'm gonna make the same mistake twice They draw the curtain Wait for a call Pretty lucky if they get any kind of response at all Can't you ever treat anyone nice? I think i'm gonna make the same mistake twice I'm gonna make the same mistake twice |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
Someone's always coming around here
trailing some new kill Says i seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill And what's a game of chance to you, to him is one of real skill So glad to meet you Angeles Picking up the ticket shows there's money to be made Go on and lose the gamble that's the history of the trade That you add up all he cards left to play to zero And sign up with evil Angeles Don't start me trying now Cos i'm all over it Angeles I could make you satisfied in everything you do All your 'secret wishes' could right now be coming true And be forever with my poison arms around you No one's gonna fool around with us No one's gonna fool around with us So glad to meet you Angeles |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
She's shaking down
I'm absent and numb from shock Reaching around for the hands of the clock Should've lied Lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up Cupid's trick comes Down to shake and deal The stupid kick that makes me real Should've lied Lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up She's shaking down It's never over and done. So, kick me, cane me Then i'll know Why Lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up, it's my lie Should've lit me up |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
I'm going out sleepwalking
Where mute memories start talking The boss that couldn't help but hurt you And the pretty thing he made desert you I'm going out now like a baby A naïve unsatisfiable baby Grabbing onto whatever's around For the soaring high or the crushing down With hidden cracks that don't show But that constantly just grow I'm looking for the man that attacked me While everybody was laughing at me You beat it in me that part of you But i'm gonna split us back in two Tired of living in a cloud If you're gonna say shit now you'll do it out loud It's 2:45 in the morning And i'm putting myself on warning For waking up in an unknown place With a recollection you've half erased Looking for somebody's arms to Wave away past harms I'm walking out on center circle The both of you can just fade to black I'm walking out on center circle Been pushed away and i'll never go back |
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from Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after We broke up a month ago and i grew up i didn't know I'd be around the morning after It's always been wait and see A happy day and then you pay And feel like shit the morning after But now i feel changed around and instead falling down I'm standing up the morning after Situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later And i could be another fool or an exception to the rule You tell me the morning after Crooked spin can't come to rest I'm damaged bad at best She'll decide what she wants I'll probably be the last to know No one says until it shows and you see how it is They want you or they don't Say yes I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl Who's still around the morning after |
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from Music For Paul Auster [omnibus] (2004)
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be that you'll never see The promises you'll only make Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days Do what I say and I'll make you okay and dive them away The images stuck in your head People you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still Drink up baby, look at the stars, I'll kiss you again Between the bars where I'm seeing you There with your hands in the air waiting to finally be caught Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine Keep you apart deep in my heart seperate from the rest Where I like you the best And keep the things you forgot The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll Keep them still |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
(pushy preachy)
last stop for a resolution end of the line, is it confusion? so go. go see whats there for you nothing new, nothing new for you to use i've got no new act to amuse you i've got no desire to use you, you know but anything that i could do, would never be good enough for you if you can't help it then just leave it alone (leave it alone) leave it alone, yeah, just forget it it's really easy i believe i'll forget it too still you're keepin' me around til i finally drag us both down pulling feathers out your hat yes i believe that's where it's at you belong tagging along and i belong in your zoo so i wait for confirmation that you're never gonna use your starting gun unless its me it sounds like being him just wasn't that much fun anything that i could do would never be good enough for you if you can't help it then just leave it alone (leave it alone) leave me alone, yeah, just forget it it's really easy i'll just forget it too coast to coast, coast to coast i'll do what i can so you can be what you do coast to coast, coast to coast i'll do everything i can so you can be what you do coast to coast, coast to coast circuit rider comes every fifth sunday oh my lord, i fell asleep one day anything that i could do is there anything that i could do that someone doesn't do for you that someone didn't do for you that i have already done for you |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
There are signs
Dividing in That I couldn't abide I wouldn't miss it again Burning every bridge that I cross To find some beautiful place to get lost I had true love But made it die Pushed out of the way She said please stay Burning every bridge that I cross To find some beautiful place to get lost To find some beautiful place to get lost I don't know where I'll go now And I don't really care who follows me there But ill burn every bridge that I cross To find some beautiful place to get lost To find some beautiful place to get lost |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
Sunshine, been keeping me up for days
There is no night time, it's only a passing phase And I feel pretty, pretty enough for you I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do Sometimes is all I feel up to now But it's not worth it to you Cos you gotta get out somehow It's the destruction that you require to feel Like somebody wants you, someone that's more for real Sunshine, been keeping me up for days There is no night time, only a passing phase And I'll feel pretty, another hour or two I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do I felt so ugly before, I didn't know what to do Ugly before |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
I met a girl
Snowball in hell She's as hard And as cracked as a liberty bell And I got her to Come on move in with me And I said I'll find a better place Where we can spend eternity Don't go down Don't go down Stay with me baby stay Her mother called me a thief And her dad called himself Commander and chief I fall in love with my love But I knew the kind of worthless ness we have to raise above Don't go down Don't go down Stay with me baby stay Don't go down Don't go down Stay with me baby stay She had a dream Woke up in shock She had seen Her own body outlined in chalk No fingerprints were found on the gun And her ghost leaned down to kiss me With a message from the sun Don't go down Don't go down Stay with me baby stay Don't go down Stay with me baby stay Don't go down Stay with me baby stay |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
You get what you see
I saw a rich fuck giving charity Saw an evil emperor wearing my clothes Their far from the best But they might suit you better than the rest Just looking in the mirror Will make you a brave man I know my place Hate my face I know how I begin, and how I'll end Strung out again Was a parliament of owls Flying over a city of canals Floating on the body Floating in the dalles You get what you see Some things they just change invisiabally I don't know where I'm going I don't even want to know I know my place Hate my face I know how I begin and how I'll end Strung out again Standing, smiling on some fantasy island Waving at my lost reflection again But a tide coming in And I'm strung out again Strung out again |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
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 |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
The king's crossing
is the main attraction Dominoes are falling in a chain reaction The scraping subject ruled by fear told me Whiskey works better than beer The judge is on vinyl decisions are final And nobody gets a reprieve And every wave is tidal if you hang around You're going to get wet I can't prepare for death any more than i already have All you can do now is watch the shells The game looks easy that's why it sells Frustrated fireworks inside your head Are going to stand and deliver talk instead The method acting that pays my bills Keeps a fat man feeding in beverly hills I got a heavy metal mouth that hurls obscenity And i get my check from the trash treasury Because i took my own insides out It don't matter cos i have no sex life All i want to do now is inject my ex wife I've seen the movie and i know what happens It's 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 a setting sun Read the part and we turn out fine It's a hell of a role if you can keep it alive But i don't care if i fuck up I'm going on a date with a rich white lady Ain't life great Give me one good reason not to do it This is the place where time reverses Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses Instruments shine on a silver tray Don't let me get carried away Don't let me get carried away Don't let me be carried away |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
haven't laughed this hard in a long time
i better stop now before i start crying go off to sleep in the sunshine i don't want to see the day when it's dying she's a sight to see, she's good to me i'm already somebody's baby she's a pretty thing and she knows everything but i'm already somebody's baby you don't deserve to be lonely but those drugs you got won't make you feel better pretty soon you'll find it's the only little part of your life you're keeping together i'm nice to you, i could make it through that you're already somebody's baby i could make you smile if you stayed a while but how long will you stay with me baby because your candle burns too bright well, i almost forgot it was twilight even if i think that you are right well, i'm tired of being down, i got no fight you're wonderful, when it's beautiful but i'm already somebody's baby and if i went with you i'd disappoint you too well, i'm already somebody's baby already somebody's baby thanks to james and mike |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
Everything is gone but the echo of the burst of a shell
And i'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling In the city i built up and blew to hell I'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling Still i sinned all the time My request for relief Down the dead power lines 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 waiting for a passing feeling Stuck here waiting for a passing feeling |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
Here's the army
That you mowed to the ground And the bodies you left lying around Talking it out The last hour I'm through trying now It's a big relief I'll be staying down Where no-one else gonna give me grief Mess me around Just make it over Your opinion was the law of the land A single thing that i couldn't always understand I lived it out from hour to hour The only thing that never really changed You ran me all around And dragged me down At the end of the day Don't keep me around Just make it over I've been thinking of the things that i missed Situations that i passed up for this One way love i took for ours I'm through trying now It's a big relief I'll be staying down I wasn't good at being a theif More like a clown Make it over |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
you'll make the scene like you always do going up stream down the ave. to fuck some trophy boy that you'll win tonight at the bar so bad, so far. you'll make him sad, shooting star. when it was me i was momentarily proud drunk on dreams now i'm glad i didn't say out loud you said you'd be for real but i don't believe that you are so bad, so far. you make me sad, shooting star you're distant and cold and a sight to behold everybody just sighs. but no one gets on with you very long, cos you don't feel bad when you lie i'm going to sleep now going back to find square one square two be where i can deal with the shit you've just done it won't be soon say the least it's gonna be hard so bad, so far. your love is sad, shooting star your love is sad, shooting star |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
this is the place
you'll end up when you lose the chase where you're dragged against your will from a basement on the hill and all anybody knows is you're not like them and they kick you in the head and send you back to bed isolation pulled you pass a tunnel to a bright world where you can make a place to stay but everybody's scared of this place they're staying away your little house on memory lane the mayor's name is fear his voice patrols the pier from a mountain of cliche that advances everyday the doctor spoke a cloud he rained out loud you'll keep your doors and windows shut and swear you'll never show a soul again but isolation pushes you ‘til every muscle aches down the only road it ever takes but everybody's scared of this place they're staying away your little house on memory lane if it's your decision to be open about yourself be careful or else be careful or else uncomfortable apart it's all written on my chart and i take what's given to me most cooperatively i do what people say and lie in bed all day absolutely horrified i hope you're satisfied isolation pushes past self hatred, guilt and shame to a place where suffering is just a game but everybodys scared of this place they're staying away your little house on memory lane your little house on memory lane |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
One more little one
I'll go down stay down Sleep the rest of the day Dream new music to calm down Stay down and keep evil away I can hear you asleep Changing your shape Dissolved in some dream As a new one appears To take you along where you've never been One, two, three, four, five, six ? The moonlight tonight seems to belong to me Cause i even though some can't sleep They need some company One hit wouldn't hurt a bit at all Slow down sleep What's ? If it's good shit you won't know And i won't know the fact that i'm dying If i seem to be reckless with myself It's the fault of no one All things have a place Under the moon as well as the sun One more Little one i love you |
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from Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (2004)
O'm floating in a black balloon
O.D. on easter afternoon My mama told me baby stay clean There's no in between And all you ladies and you gentlemen Between is all you've ever seen or been Fit poorly and arrange the sight Doll it up in virgin white You disappoint me You people rakin' in on the world The devil's script sells You the heart of a blackbird Shine on me baby cause it's rainin' in my heart Sun is rising on a chopping glare Rain dropping acid blotter in the air A distorted reality's now a neccessity to be free So disappointing So first i put it all down to luck God knows why my country don't give a fuck fuck Shine on me baby cause it's rainin' in my heart Shine on me baby cause it's rainin' in my heart |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997)
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be that you'll never see The promises you'll only make Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days Do what I say and I'll make you okay and dive them away The images stuck in your head People you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still Drink up baby, look at the stars, I'll kiss you again Between the bars where I'm seeing you There with your hands in the air waiting to finally be caught Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine Keep you apart deep in my heart seperate from the rest Where I like you the best And keep the things you forgot The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll Keep them still |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997)
Someone's always coming around here
trailing some new kill Says I seen your picture on a hundred dollar bill And what's a game of chance to you, to him is one of real skill So glad to meet you Angeles Picking up the ticket shows there's money to be made Go on and lose the gamble that's the history of the trade You add up all the cards left to play to zero And sign up with evil Angeles Don't start me trying now 'Cos I'm all over it Angeles I could make you satisfied in everything you do All your 'secrert wishes' could right now be coming true And be forever with my poison arms around you No-one's gonna fool around with us No-one's gonna fool around with us So glad to meet you Angeles |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997)
* No Name #3 -- Elliott Smith
We arrived too late Our mouths were opening I turned off the light So come on night You're a witness you You've seen me interrupt A good old fashioned fight So come on night Everyone is gone Home to oblivion Home to Oblivion Home to Oblivion Watched the dying day Blushing in the sky Everyone is uptight So come on night Everyone is gone Home to oblivion Home to Oblivion Home to Oblivion I know we're not Illegitimate In our hearing So come on So come on night |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997)
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might The potential you'll be that you'll never see The promises you'll only make Drink up with me now and forget all about the pressure of days Do what I say and I'll make you okay and dive them away The images stuck in your head People you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll keep them still Drink up baby, look at the stars, I'll kiss you again Between the bars where I'm seeing you There with your hands in the air waiting to finally be caught Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine Keep you apart deep in my heart seperate from the rest Where I like you the best And keep the things you forgot The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore That push and shove and won't bend to your will I'll Keep them still |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997)
Say Yes
by Elliott Smith I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl who's still around the morning after we broke up a month ago and I grew up I didn't know I'd be around the morning after it's always been wait and see a happy day and then you pay and feel like shit the morning after but now I feel changed around and instead falling down I'm standing up the morning after situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later and I could be another fool or an exception to the rule you tell me the morning after crooked spin can't come to rest I'm damaged bad at best she'll decide what she wants I'll probably be the last to know no one says until it shows and you see how it is they want you or they don't say yes I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl who's still around the morning after |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997)
Miss Misery
i'll fake it through the day with some help from johnny walker red send the poison rain down the drain to put bad thoughts in my head two tickets torn in half and a lot of nothing to do do you miss me, miss misery like you say you do? a man in the park read the lines in my hand told me i'm strong hardly ever wrong i said man you mean you had plans for both of us that involved a trip out of town to a place i've seen in a magazine that you left lying around i don't have you with me but i keep a good attitude do you miss me, miss misery like you say you do? i know you'd rather see me gone than to see me the way that i am but i am in the life anyway next door the tv's flashing blue frames on the wall it's a comedy of errors, you see it's about taking a fall to vanish into oblivion is easy to do and i try to be but you know me i come back when you want me to do you miss me miss misery like you say you do? |
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from Good Will Hunting (굿 윌 헌팅) by Danny Elfman [ost] (1997) | |||||
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from Elliott Smith - Xo (1998)
here's the silhouette,
the face always turned away the bleeding color gone to black, dying like a day couldn't figure out what made you so unhappy shook your head to say no, no, no and stopped for a spell and stayed that way oh well, okay - I got pictures, I just don't see it anymore climbing hour upon hour through a total bore with the one I keep where it never fades in the safety of a pitch black mind an airless cell that blocks the day oh well, okay if you a get a feeling the next time you see me do me a favor and let me know 'cause it's hard to tell it's hard to say oh well, okay oh well, okay oh well, okay - |
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from Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2000)
Wish you gave me your number
Wish I could call you today Just to hear a voice I got a long way to go, I'm getting further away If I didn't know the difference Living alone would probably be okay It wouldn't be lonely I got a long way to go, I'm getting further away A lot of hours to occupy, it was easy when I didn't know you yet Things I'd have to forget But I better be quiet now, I'm tired of wasting my breath Caring on and getting upset Maybe I have a problem But that's not what I wanted to say I'd prefer to say nothing I got a long way to go, I'm getting further away Had a dream as an army man with an order just to march in my place While a dead enemy screams in my face But I better be quiet now, I'm tired of wasting my breath Carrying on, not over it yet Wish I knew what you're doing And why you want to do it this way So I can't go the distance I got a long way to go, I'm getting further away I got a long way to go I'm getting further away |
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from Elliott Smith - Baby Britain [single] (2000)
Baby Britain
baby britain feels the best floating over a sea of vodka separated from the rest fights problems with bigger problems sees the ocean fall and rise counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her water pouring from her eyes alcoholic and very bitter for someone half as smart you'd be a work of art you put yourself apart and i can't help until you start we knocked another couple back the dead soldiers lined up on the table still prepared for an attack they didn't know they'd been disabled felt a wave a rush of blood you won't be happy 'til the bottle's broken and you're out swimming in the flood you kept back you kept unspoken for someone half as smart you'd be a work of art you put yourself apart and i can't help until you start you got a look in your eye when you're saying goodbye like you wanna say hi the light was on but it was dim revolver's been turned over and now it's ready once again the radio was playing 'crimson and clover' london bridge is safe and sound no matter what you keep repeating nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating for someone half as smart you'd be a work of art you put yourself apart and i can't help until you start for someone half as smart you'd be a work of art you put yourself apart |
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from Elliott Smith - Baby Britain [single] (2000)
Waltz 1 -by Elliott Smith
Everytime the day darkens down and goes away pictures open in my head of me and you silent and cliché all the things we did and didn't say covered by what we did and didn't do going through every out i used to cope to make the repetition stop: what was i supposed to say? now i never leave my zone we're both alone i'm going home i wish i'd never seen your face |
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from Elliott Smith - Baby Britain [single] (2000)
You got your head turned around
Walking upside down Through the sunken dream Through the crushing crowd You don't know what it means Because you're a broken machine You won't lisp it out You're dressing up your man It's all second hand It's all hindsight You don't understand It's just an empty scene It's still an empty scheme You want to block it out But I know what I'm going to do With this big doubt I'm going to make it go away When you go walking out in The rose city Without a fucking clue With an attitude Knowing what you need What you will not do The enemy is you You beat up on yourself Because there ain't no one else Who feels quite as good To put straight through hell You know yourself well You know what you're about Just want to block it out Well, I know what I'm going to do With this big doubt I'm going to hide my face away Block it out Well, I know what I'm going to do With this big doubt I'm going to make it go away |
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from Elliott Smith - Baby Britain [single] (2000)
Bottle Up and Explode! by Elliott Smith
bottle up and explode over and over keep the troublemaker below put it away and check out for the day and in for a round of overexposure the thing mother nature provides to get up and go bottle up and explode seeing the stars surrounding you red white and blue you look and him like you've never known him but I know for a fact that you have the last time you cried who'd you think was inside? thinking that you were about to come over but i'm tired now of waiting for you you never show bottle up and go, if you're gonna hide it's up to you I'm coming through bottle up and go, I can make it outside I'll get though becoming you becoming you becoming you |
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from Elliott Smith - Division Day/ No Name #6 [single] (2005)
There was grown man dying from fright
So surprised by the things he'd say With a giant fantasy life Running 'round on feet of clay Naked except for a perpetual debt That couldn't be stripped away An unrightable wrong that moved him Along closer to division day Spent a long time living with that Never could give it a name And when you don't know what you're Looking at it makes it much harder to take Mostly they'd meet when he was Asleep and have some sick exchange That stuck him as wrong and moved him Along closer to division day I can't make an exception for a bad Connection that only goes one way Sell out for a song where I don't belong With you on division day The moon stood up on the ridge Looking down where the water shines And a man looking over the bridge Like he done so many times Thinking about how to stay out Out of troubles way and Flying to fall away from you all It's over division day Beautiful division day Thinking about how to stay out Out of troubles way Flying to fall away from you all It's over division day Beautiful division day |
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from The Royal Tenenbaums (2002)
7. 건초 속의 바늘 (Needle in the Hay)
네 손이 그의 팔 위에 네 목에 감긴 것은 건초더미 장식 우울하고 메마른 상태에서 친구에게 전화해 약간의 수표를 현금으로 바꾸려는 그의 움직임은 둔해보여 이것이 결국 네가 예상하게 된 결과겠지만 건초더미 속의 바늘 X4 그는 네 옷을 입고 있군 머리부터 발끝까지 너와 똑같아 넌 말한다 그가 무슨 짓을 했는지 안다고 하지만 이 멍청한 인간아 넌 뭐가 뭔지 아무것도 모르잖아 가끔씩 그것들이 눈에 잡히고서야 너는 그를 회복시키려 한다 건초더미 속의 바늘 X4 지금은 버스 안 가까스로 근접한 이 지독한 추락의 느낌 6번가와 파월 애비뉴에 떨어진 채 내 이빨에는 무감각한 땀 한 방울 네 블럭을 더, 그리고 내 머리속의 한 블럭까지 더한 거리를 걷고 또 걷고 또 걷고 네 블럭을 더가고, 내 기억속에 있는 한 블럭을 더가면 아래층에 사는 그 남자가 모든 걸 해결해 줄 것이다 나는 나를 이겨낼 수 없다 나는 나를 당해낼 수 없다 말하고 싶지도 않아 나는 치료를 받고있다 내가 원할 땐 언제나 조용히 있을 수 있겠지 그러니 이제 날 내버려둬 내 점수가 점점 좋아지는 것에 대해 자랑스러워 해야만 할거야 건초더미 속의 바늘 X4 |
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from Up In The Air (업 인 디 에어) [ost] (2009)
i'd say you make a perfect angel in the snow all crushed out on the way you are better stop before it goes too far don't you know that i love you sometimes i feel like only a cold still life that fell down here to lay beside you don't you know that i love you sometimes i feel like only a cold still life only a frozen still life that fell down here to lay beside you |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
your hand on his arm
the haystack charm around your neck strung out and thin calling some friend trying to cash some check he's acting dumb that's what you've come to expect needle in the hay he's wearing your clothes head down to toes a reaction to you you say you know what he did but you idiot kid you don't have a clue sometimes they just get caught in the eye you're pulling him through needle in the hay now on the bus nearly touching this dirty retreat falling out 6th and Powell a dead sweat in my teeth gonna walk walk walk four more blocks plus the one in my brain down downstairs to the man he's gonna make it all OK I can't beat myself and I don't want to talk I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet whenever I want so leave me alone you ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks needle in the hay |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
Christian Brothers
no bad dream fucker's gonna boss me around christian brothers gonna take him down but it can't help me get over don't be cross it's sick what I want i've seen the boss blink on and off fake concerns is what's the matter, man and you think I ought to shake yourr motherfucking hand well I know how much you care don't be cross it's sick what I want i've seen the boss blink on and off come here by me i want you here nightmares become me it's so fucking clear nightmares become me it's so fucking clear |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
* Clementine - Elliott Smith
They're waking you up to close the bar The street's wet you can tell by the sound of the cars The bartender's singing clementine While he's turning around the open sign Dreadful sorry clementine Though you're still her man It seems a long time gone Maybe the whole thing's wrong What if she thinks so but just didn't say so? You drank yourself into slo-mo Made an angel in the snow Anything to pass the time And keep that song out of your mind Oh my darling Oh my darling Oh my darling clementine Dreadful sorry clementine |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
* Southern Belle - Elliott Smith
Killing a southern belle is All you know how to do that And give other people hell It's what they expect from you too But I wouldn't have you how you want I don't wanna walk around I don't even want to breathe I live in a southern town Where all you can do is grit your teeth But I wouldn't have you how you want How come you're not ashamed of what you are? And sorry that you're the one she got? Aint nobody talking now Nobody nothing's said No one's about to shout Nobody's seen red But I wouldn't have you how you want You're killing a southern belle Killing a southern belle Killing a southern belle |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
Single File
here in line where stupid shit collides with dying shooting stars all we got to show what we really are is the same kind of scars and looking at you all i see is your waiting for something single file you're a murder mile you idiot kid your arm's got a death in it if your choking up take this paper cup but there's a price you'll pay for trying hard to become whatever they are and saying whatever they say so help yourself to this bitter pill or somebody else will single file you're a murder mile you idiot kid your arm's got a death in it single file single file single file single file |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
* Coming Up Roses
I'm a junkyard full of false starts And I don't need your permission To bury my love under this bare light bulb The moom is a sickle cell It'll kill you in time You cold white brother riding your blood Like spun glass in sore eyes While the moon does its division you're buried below And you're coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses follow The things that you tell yourself They'll kill you in time You cold white brother alive in your blood Spinning in the night sky While the moon does its division you're buried below And you're coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows And you're coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
* Satellite - Elliott Smith
While the gands are pointing up midnight You're a question mark coming after people You watched collide You can ask what you want to the satellite Cos the names you drop put ice in my veins And for all you know you're the only one Who finds it strange When they call it a lover's moon The satellite Cos it acts just like lovers do The satellite A burned out world you know Staying up all night The satellite |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
Alphabet Town by Elliott Smith
Alphabet city is haunted constantina feels right at home she probably won't say you're wrong but you're already wrong you're already wrong and you threw up whatever she shot down said show me around this alphabet town said show me around there's a name you keep repeating you got nothing better to do and you're with someone who'll hear you say it and just nod her hand on your arm her hand on your arm she put her hand on your arm and told you her name you can't pronounce it I'll show you around this alphabet town I'll show you around this alphabet town I know what you are I just don't mind I won't say you're wrong I know what you want and it's what i want so let's go out I'm ready to go out I'll show you around this alphabet town I'll show you around this alphabet town |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
St. Ides Heaven
everything is exactly right when i walk around here drunk every night with an open container from 7-11 in st. ides heaven i've been out haunting the neighborhood and everybody can see i'm no good when i'm walking out between parked cars with my head full of stars high on amphetamines the moon is a lightbulb breaking it'll go around with anyone but it won't come down for anyone you think you know what brings me down that i want those things you could never allow you see me smiling you think it's a frown turned upside down cos everyone is a fucking pro and they all got answers from trouble they've known and they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do though they don't have a clue high on amphetamines the moon is a lightbulb breaking it'll go around with anyone but it won't come down for anyone and i won't come down for anyone |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
Good To Go - Elliott Smith
A low riding junkie girl rode down south to yr little world like a dream you can do it if you want to you can do it if you want to you can do it if you want to be like me I wouldn't need a hero if i wasn't such a zero If i wasn't such a zero good to go all i ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around It's all i ever see around here she kicked new york like a curse and you traced her footsteps in reverse up to queens you can do it if you want to you can do it if you want to you can do it if you want to be like me I wouldn't need a hero if i wasn't such a zero If i wasn't such a zero good to go all i ever see around here is things of hers that you left lying around It's all i ever see around here some empty envelopes from some other town It's all i ever see around here I'm waiting for something that's not coming |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
the white lady loves you more
keep your things in a place meant to hide but i know they're there somewhere and i know that's where you'll go tonight i'll be thrown over just like before the white lady loves you more need a metal man just to pick up your feet it's a long time since you cared enough for me to even be discrete i know what this metal is for the white lady loves you more i'm looking at a hand full of broken plans and i'm tired of playing it down you just want her to do anything to you there ain't nothing that you won't allow you wake up in the middle of the night from a dream you won't remember flashing on like a cop's light you say she's waiting and i know what for the white lady loves you more the white lady |
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from Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995)
the biggest lie
i'm waiting for the train the subway that only goes one way the stupid thing that will come to pull us apart and make everybody late you spent everything you had wanted everything to stop that bad and now i'm a crushed credit card registered to smith not the name that you call me with you turned white like a saint i'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint oh we're so very precious, you and i and everything that you do makes me want to die oh i just told the biggest lie i just told the biggest lie the biggest lie |
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from Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
i'd say you make a perfect angel in the snow all crushed out on the way you are better stop before it goes too far don't you know that i love you sometimes i feel like only a cold still life that fell down here to lay beside you don't you know that i love you sometimes i feel like only a cold still life only a frozen still life that fell down here to lay beside you |
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from Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
Talkin' to Mary, you know you don't have to shout.
She can hear what you're thinkin' like you were sayin' it right out loud. I'm sure she sees behind that dirty look. It was her that followed down every stupid turn that you took. One day she'll go, I told you so. One day she'll go, I told you so. Saw the one big problem you keep under your hat, And it's pretty unlikely that anybody else will be cool with that. You've got bus fare in your pocket and more money down in your sock. But she can't tell you how to contact her if you won't listen to her talk. One day she'll go, I told you so. One day she'll go, I told you so. It's no problem, I'll just keep quiet if it's easier for you, To make believe, then, that I don't love you as much as I do. One day she'll go, I told you so. One day she'll go, I told you so. I told you so, I told you so. |
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from Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
Here come the sidewalk boss again Telling me how I can't cave in That I'm a study in black Need a pat on the back I looked up and smile A picture of dissatisfaction That he can only see as a junkie Though I might be straight as an arrow He's busy shaking hands with my monkey Busy shaking hands with my monkey Well I go in the car Straight to the bar Where my sweetie pours the beer For the millions of fans ignoring the bands He's in my ear Wants me to live in denial Says you've gotta settle for something Though it might not be really living Anything is better than nothing Anything is better than nothing No actor action man gonna move in to take my place I'll be pumping out the product Just a total waste Look at your hands unoccupied Look at the lengths you'll go to hide You're under the veil Pretending to fail Gotta whole lot of empty time left to go Now you've gotta fill it with something I know what you can do don't you know Anything is better than nothing No actor action man gonna move in to take my place I'll be pumping out the product Just a total waste I'm here with my cup Afraid to look up This is how I spend my time Lazin' around, head hangin' down Stuck inside my imagination Busy making something from nothing Pictures of hope and depression Anything is better than nothing Anything is better than nothing Anything is better than nothing Anything is better than nothing |
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from Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
Wiped out and the city's lit
Another sick rock and roller Acting like a dick Needing cash Rooting through the trash That piles up in this place And fills up behind my empty face Full of things we are not to do You come over with all of your friends And all their opinions I don't want to know And I'm looking over my shoulder Booking away with nowhere to go I run down to the corner lot It's forty-five past two I almost forgot to show I got a date to make with Mr So and So After which I won't care when you all start to bitch And moan about being alone You come over with all of your friends And all their opinions I don't want to know And I'm looking over my shoulder Booking away with nowhere to go Why can't you just leave me alone You've already thrown All the sticks and stones You had to send my way Why can't you just leave it at that And spare us both the bother Cuz I just bounce back anway I got nothing that I want to do More than make another Sonic fuck you to play Whenever you make my life cliche So to fit in some little box With all the made up shit you say To keep confusion away You come over with all of your friends And all their opinions I don't want to know And I'm looking over my shoulder Booking away with nowhere to go You come over with all of your friends And all their opinions I don't want to know And I'm looking over my shoulder Booking away |
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from Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
It's to reveal that fucked up cop
Amped up on prescription pills That brought my heart to a stop And i want to tell you there's a riot coming Like a drug in the water A punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters I met a girl on the square Who showed me how to kill my cares But once that's done, man, there's nothing to do Time's running backwards from me and you There's a riot coming Like a drug in the water A punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters My body's running but i don't see why it bothers Sat down in jail with this friend of mine Who'd never close both his eyes But one was shut all the time To cover the thing he was scared of While he watched with the other There was a riot coming Like a drug in the water A punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters There's a riot coming There's a riot coming There's a riot coming |
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from Elliott Smith - New Moon (2007)
Here come your pride and joy,
The comic little drunk you call your boy, making everybody smile. Who takes your pretty plan, And then becomes a disappearing man, After a little while. I saw you with your makeup running down, Now what's that all about? You say you don't want anyone around, 'Cause you're all cleaned out. You toss the empty beer, Not really as composed as you appear, An icicle inside. Wearing clothes that clash, Wondering, is this treasure, is this trash? Still trying to decide. Now about five o'clock here comes your clown, With the foot he's throwing down. But all you say is you don't want anyone around, No, not right now. There ain't nothing to dream, You don't wanna think about it. I'm sorry you seem so stung, And I'm sorry you think you have to hold your tongue, When you're so pretty and smart. I'm seeing you caving in, Becoming afraid of all these men, That you've given your heart. I saw you with your makeup running down, Now what's that all about? You say you don't want anyone around, 'Cause youre all cleaned out. All cleaned out, All cleaned out. |