Elliott Smith Quotes

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, and it's beautiful, but I'm already somebody's baby. And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too.

Gimme one good reason not to do it
(because we love you), so 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.

The scraping subjects, ruled by fear, they told me
whiskey works better than beer.

Veins full of disappearing ink
Vomitting in the kitchen sink.

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.

I met a girl, snowball in hell she was hard and as cracked as the liberty bell.

So I wait for confirmation
That you're never gonna use your starting gun.

I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chart
And I take what's given me, most cooperatively
I do what people say and lie in bed all day
Absolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied

This is the place you end up when you lose the chase,
Where you're dragged against your will from a basement on a hill,
And all anybody knows, is you're not like them,
So they kick you in the head...and send you back to bed.

The first true love that folded at the slightest touch,
brought down like an old hotel,
people digging through the rubble for things they can resell.

What I used to be will pass away, and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me.

Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries

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.

I waited for a bus
To separate the both of us
And take me off far away from you
'Cause my feelings never change a bit
I always feel like shit
I don't know why; I guess that I "just do"