| Elliott Smith – A Passing Feeling Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think that this song is more appropriately about waiting for the craving to go away. He's been trying to recover for so long and its so hard and it took so much work and now he just wants to shoot up again. For me, being in recovery meant that if you were having a craving, you feel like you have to chain yourself to a bed so you won't do anything stupid. So, rather than being about drugs, I believe its about relapse. | |
| Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I don't believe in elliott smith's songs being solely about such shallow things as drugs or suicide, etc. He was, and still is, one of the most intelligent and talented artists of this generation, and I think that there is a deeper meaning to pretty much all of his songs. This song, in my opinion, was probably written originally for the sake of letting go of his addiction, and in his voice you can tell its a sort of weak happiness--like most of his songs, where they're song in high spirit and somewhat fast-paced as if they were happy but it has a very sad ora to it, behind the words and the music and the voice. So in this song, with the obvious valediction to his heroin-consumed Elliott, he expresses a lot of mixed emotions. He's proud to be clean, of course, but again doesn't really want to let it go. Elliott probably didn't know he was going to die. When I first started listening to this song, I thought that it was an eerie public suicide note. But now, I think that it's probably just a subconcious thing. He wanted to explain how hard it was to leave the old him behind, hence his referrals to "good and evil" and "taking up with the enemy" I think that the drug verse "i can deal with some..." and the flashback verse "a little less..." are things that sort of sum up his old self, though I am not aware of any suicide attempts prior to his death? One more thing--when I have said to leave his old self, I think what fits better is meeting his new one. From experience, I know it's really hard to go back to being and functioning like a normal person after you've been on another extreme for a long time. All in all, I love this song more than I can really express in words. I guess that's how I feel about all of Elliott Smith's art. So, congrats to me this was my first comment yay!! unfortunately, it was more like a novel than a comment. my bad. |
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| Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I don't believe in elliott smith's songs being solely about such shallow things as drugs or suicide, etc. He was, and still is, one of the most intelligent and talented artists of this generation, and I think that there is a deeper meaning to pretty much all of his songs. This song, in my opinion, was probably written originally for the sake of letting go of his addiction, and in his voice you can tell its a sort of weak happiness--like most of his songs, where they're song in high spirit and somewhat fast-paced as if they were happy but it has a very sad ora to it, behind the words and the music and the voice. So in this song, with the obvious valediction to his heroin-consumed Elliott, he expresses a lot of mixed emotions. He's proud to be clean, of course, but again doesn't really want to let it go. Elliott probably didn't know he was going to die. When I first started listening to this song, I thought that it was an eerie public suicide note. But now, I think that it's probably just a subconcious thing. He wanted to explain how hard it was to leave the old him behind, hence his referrals to "good and evil" and "taking up with the enemy" I think that the drug verse "i can deal with some..." and the flashback verse "a little less..." are things that sort of sum up his old self, though I am not aware of any suicide attempts prior to his death? One more thing--when I have said to leave his old self, I think what fits better is meeting his new one. From experience, I know it's really hard to go back to being and functioning like a normal person after you've been on another extreme for a long time. All in all, I love this song more than I can really express in words. I guess that's how I feel about all of Elliott Smith's art. So, congrats to me this was my first comment yay!! unfortunately, it was more like a novel than a comment. my bad. |
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