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Elliott Smith Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Elliott Smith Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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Elliott Smith - Some Song (Help Me Kill My Time) Lyrics
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this song is very clearly about adult abuse to children.. one of elliotts most obvious on the topic... also, when asked about his tatoo ...
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Elliott Smith - Pitseleh Lyrics
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Pitseleh is a beautifully sad song - I can hear the fragility of Elliot Smith oozing out in this song. Pitseleh is apparantly a yiddish ...
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Elliott Smith - Miss Misery Lyrics
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Elliott's "Ms. Misery" is within him - it is the darkness from which he attempts to extricate himself. Sadly, this may not be possible ...
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Elliott Smith - Bled White Lyrics
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My interpretation is that he is a "color reporter"- someone who thrives on color, and yet he's in a city "bled white"- a city void of ...
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Elliott Smith - Amity Lyrics
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it's about a girl named Amity who Elliott knew and loved but didn't want to be in a relationship with because he was too depressed. if ...
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Elliott Smith - Say Yes Lyrics
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it's about making a huge mistake. about letting someone go, because you've become so used to being let down. "a happy day and then you ...
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Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 Lyrics
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To me, this song draws on images of the singer's guilt-ridden relationship to a remote, distant mother to evoke, simultaneously, the ...
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Elliott Smith - Happiness/The Gondola Man Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress ...
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Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie Lyrics
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Prolly the best line in the whole song is when he says hes tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint, meaning he cant keep ...
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Elliott Smith - Roman Candle Lyrics
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It's about brilliance flourishing through pain (specifically child abuse) and self-destructive behavior. The scene where Matt Damon ...
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Elliott Smith - Satellite Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos ...
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Elliott Smith - Son of Sam Lyrics
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Son of Sam is metaphor for being a fucked up product of abuse. You know he can't form relationships or hold relationships because of ...
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Elliott Smith - Between the Bars Lyrics
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It's about the power of addiction, the call of drink. He used to be someone else, someone with potential, but he knows he'll never live ...
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Elliott Smith - Speed Trials Lyrics
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This song is about a person's inability to confront herself and really look at the scary, introspective things that need to be looked ...
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Elliott Smith - Junk Bond Trader Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell Lyrics
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The "fond farewell", I think, refers to that feeling of missing a drug that a former addict always has, no matter how bad things were ...
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Elliott Smith - Alphabet Town Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress ...
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Elliott Smith - Either/Or (No More) Lyrics
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brave or bored, champion or chore, posing as harcore, up against and for - either or. Exactly. The choices in life, the polar opposites ...
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Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing Lyrics
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57 Comments ... ernt. wrong. you make your own decisions but the song is about drugs. ... "a tired man with only hours to go just waiting ...
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Elliott Smith - Christian Brothers Lyrics
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Christian Brothers by Elliott Smith relates to alcoholism and parental abuse. The title of the song is clever in the way that it ...
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Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay Lyrics
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It's about someone who's lost, and is jaded with life ("he's acting dumb, that what you've come to expect""you idiot kid, you don't ...
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Elliott Smith - 2:45 AM Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos ...
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Elliott Smith - King's Crossing Lyrics
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This is a song about Smith's regret over using his Good Will Hunting residuals/added fame on heroin and crack cocaine. The carnival ...
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Elliott Smith - Go By Lyrics
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"Seeing it in your eyes you're only passing by, go by" he's saying how he can tell that she's not there to stay, she's just visiting ...
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Elliott Smith - Bottle Up and Explode Lyrics
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Elliott Smith was a self confessed drug addict and alcoholic. "Bottle up and explode" refers to the tendency for alcoholics to hide their pain/intense emotions ...
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Elliott Smith - A Passing Feeling Lyrics
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In the beginning he talks about how a bullet was just fired. He has killed himself, and now he is waiting for something to happen. Obviously, no one knows what ...
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Elliott Smith - Placeholder Lyrics
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"a placeholder till you take up mine" - i think he is talking to god and pleading for him to take his soul "up" to Heaven when he passes.
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Elliott Smith - Can't Make a Sound Lyrics
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i think it's about slowly losing your spark. he's lost the will to go out and be exposed to the rest of the world. he doesn't like it necessarily, but life is ...
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Elliott Smith - Division Day Lyrics
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Division Day from my understanding is division of body and soul, the day you die. I believe the song is mostly about sexual abuse from his stepfather. Every ...
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Elliott Smith - Angeles Lyrics
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this song is about how elliot smith decided not to sell out and not to make music in los angeles where he would be sold. And he talks about the people scoutting ...
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Elliott Smith - L.A. Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Elliott Smith - Clementine Lyrics
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Relating loosely to the classic folk song Clementine, this is a folk song with a subtly sinister vibe. The lyrics are extremely folky as well as the melody, ...
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Elliott Smith - No Confidence Man Lyrics
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This whole song seems like a description of Elliott's life when he was being abused by his step father Charlie. There are descriptions of verbal and physical ...
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Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Big Star cover) Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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Elliott Smith - Going Nowhere Lyrics
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This song is about a couple splitting up and him feeling everything is falling apart. Sad but beautiful song. This song ...
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Elliott Smith - Twilight (Somebody's Baby) Lyrics
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Being caught between wanting to function like a normal person in a healthy, loving relationship but understanding that your addiction is your life... That deep ...
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Elliott Smith - Coast to Coast Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, ...
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Elliott Smith - New Disaster Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Elliott Smith - The Last Hour Lyrics
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It's a dreadfully sad lyrics. It reminds me of somneone thinking about all the beautiful and wonderful things in life that so many people get to experience, but ...
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Elliott Smith - Oh Well, Okay Lyrics
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"if you get a feeling 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." he's saying, if you ever ...
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Elliott Smith - New Monkey Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Elliott Smith - Single File Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Elliott Smith - Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Elliott Smith - Independence Day Lyrics
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The song is about drug abuse, and trying to quit unsuccessfully. He's writing about Independence from drug dependence. He is trying to quit drugs, but ...
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Elliott Smith - Good to Go Lyrics
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elliott's been quoted in an interview as saying that when he uses the phrase "good to go" or "ready to go" he's talking about being ready to walk out on his ...
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Elliott Smith - Alameda Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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Elliott Smith - Baby Britain Lyrics
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This is a song about self-destruction, but (obviously since he wrote the song) with an understanding of this. The speaker ends up questioning whether he will ...
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Elliott Smith - Shooting Star Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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Elliott Smith - Last Call Lyrics
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So it could mean 'I wish she had never had me if she was just going to bring me into this life'. And it could also mean 'Let me wallow in my depression and ...
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