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Artist: Elliott Smith
Suggested Track: Between the Bars

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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 drive them away
The images stuck in your head

People you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
They 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
They push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still
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Elliott Smith – Twilight
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Elliott Smith – Christian Brothers
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Elliott Smith – Roman Candle
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Elliott Smith – 2:45 AM
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Elliott Smith – Pitseleh
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Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay
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Elliott Smith – Ballad of Big Nothing
A tongue-in-cheek song about a disenchanted, drug-addicted loser.
Elliott Smith – Speed Trials
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Elliott Smith – Clementine
“Clementine” tells a deceptively simple story – a man gets drunk and worries about his relationship – using beautiful imagery. It’s also based on the imagery from the folk poem “
Elliott Smith – Punch and Judy
[Verse 1] / 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
Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell
“A Fond Farewell” is the sixth track on Elliott Smith’s posthumous album From a Basement on the Hill. The track’s instrumental palette is sparse, consisting of bass, vocals, and a
Elliott Smith – Coming Up Roses
[Verse 1] / I'm a junkyard full of false starts / And I don't need your permission / To bury my love under this bare light bulb / [Pre-Chorus] / The moon is a sickle cell / It'll
Elliott Smith – Rose Parade
“Rose Parade” is the seventh track off of Elliott Smith’s celebrated album, Either/Or. While the song seems to be a reference to the annual Portland Rose Festival, Elliott
Elliott Smith – Amity
[Verse 1] / 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
Elliott Smith – Because
[Intro] / Ah-ah / [Verse 1] / Because the world is round / It turns me on / Because the world is round / Ah-ah / [Verse 2] / Because the wind is high / It blows my mind / Because
Elliott Smith – Last Call
“Last Call” is one of the more produced songs on the mainly four-track debut album of the late Elliot Smith, with blaring electric guitar and a more powerful Heatmiser-like vocal
Elliott Smith – Trouble
Trouble / Oh trouble set me free / I have seen your face / And it's too much too much for me / Trouble / Oh trouble can't you see / You're eating my heart away / And there's
Elliott Smith – No Name No. 5
[Verse 1] / 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 / Don't
Elliott Smith – Son of Sam
[Verse 1] / Something's happening / Don't speak too soon / I told the boss off and made my move / Got nowhere to go / [Chorus 1] / Son of Sam / Son of the shining path, the clouded
Elliott Smith – Tomorrow Tomorrow
[Verse 1] / 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
Elliott Smith – Cupid's Trick
Elliott purposely left the lyrics to this track off of the lyric sheet on the vinyl copies.
Elliott Smith – St. Ides Heaven
[Verse 1: Elliott Smith and Rebecca Gates] / Everything is exactly right / When I walk around here drunk every night / With an open container from 7-Eleven / In St. Ides heaven / [
Elliott Smith – Placeholder
Looking at all the rows / All these records look like big zeroes / Got your picture on the back of a 45 / A placeholder till you take up mine / A placeholder till you take up mine
Elliott Smith – The Biggest Lie
[Verse 1] / I'm waiting for the train / The subway that only goes one way / The stupid thing that'll come to pull us apart / And make everybody late / [Verse 2] / You spent
Elliott Smith – Single File
[Verse 1] / 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
Elliott Smith – Baby Britain
[Verse 1] / 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
Elliott Smith – Alphabet Town
[Verse 1] / 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
Elliott Smith – No Name #1
This is a song of inner struggle Elliott feels. The lyrics represent inner dialog he is wrestling with. He sees himself as someone who doesn’t belong at this event. He
Elliott Smith – I Didn't Understand
Originally called ‘Watch the Worlds Collide’, which has different, more telling lyrics that show Elliott sees love as more complex than it would appear, saying: “When people talk
Elliott Smith – Happiness
…and this is what Smith sounds like at his most optimistic. Off his fifth studio album, 2000’s Figure 8
Elliott Smith – Pretty (Ugly Before)
[Verse 1] / Sunshine / Been keeping me up for days / There is no nighttime / It's only a passing phase / [Refrain] / And I feel pretty / Pretty enough for you / I felt so ugly
Elliott Smith – Independence Day
[Verse 1] / Future butterfly / Gonna spend the day higher than high / You'll be beautiful confusion / Ooh, once I was you / [Verse 2] / I saw you caught between / All the people
Elliott Smith – Almost Over
You think I'm unkind / But people aren't the way you think they are / They can't remember all the time / What it was you wanted / They paint you out in straight silhouette / Don't
Elliott Smith – Waltz #1
[Verse] / Every time 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 up by what we
Elliott Smith – Oh Well, Okay
A man is looking through photos of an estranged lover whom he still cares about. He feigns nonchalance (“Oh well, okay”), but it’s clear that he’s pretty torn up.
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