Top 15 Elliott Smith Quotes

Elliott: "Do you want to hear a happy or a sad song?"
Crowd: "Happy!"
Elliott: "Old or new?"
Crowd: "Old!"
Elliott: "Happy and old, that's a strange choice."

The clock moved a quarter of a turn,
the time it took a cigarette to burn

Wearing clothes that clash
Wondering 'is this treasure, is this trash?'
Still trying to decide

I'm sorry you seem so stung,
and I'm sorry you feel you have to hold your tongue
when you're so pretty and smart

Here come your pride and joy
The comic little drunk you call your boy,
Making everybody smile

Your arsenal of excuses you never told her
when you walked out on the savannah shoulder
with your veins all full of beer
thinking 'well at least now everything is clear'

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.

I'd say you make the
perfect angel in the snow
all crushed out on the way
you are, I'd better stop before
it goes too far.

Next door, the TV's flashing
blue frames on the wall.
It's a comedy from the seventies
with a lead no one recalls.
He vanished into oblivion
it's easy to do
and I cried a sea when you talked to me
the day you said we were through.
But it's all right, some enchanted night
I'll be with you

And though you'd rather see me gone then to see there come the day,
I'll be waiting for you anyway

Shine on me, baby
cause it's raining
in my heart.

You disappoint me,
all you people raking in on the world.
The devil's script sells
you the heart of a blackbird.

My mama told me 'baby stay clean
there's no in between.'
but all you ladies and you gentlemen,
between is all you've ever seen or been.

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.

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 its dying.