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| Elliott Smith – Clementine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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A catchy nursury rhyme that easily floats into one's mind and remains there until it's sung to one's self long enough, notably here when one works in a bar and is somewhat gladly closing up for the night in the company of the rugulars and the quiet. This song is of a memory of elliott's that for whatever reason he remembered. The bartender was singinf clementine. How bout "the street's wet you can tell by the sound of the cars?" Arguably one of my favorite elliott lines, just for its simplicity and observation. It's like he wasnt looking at the outside world of night but he can hear it while dreading his imminent journey home. |
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| Elliott Smith – The Last Hour Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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here i am as you have left me. broken. you were everything to me and you never gave a shit much less loved me. i was your lackey, your tool. i cannot grasp how much of me has been wasted on you, and now i dont know how i can endure in this place. i want it all to have never been. jsut make it over. |
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| Elliott Smith – Going Nowhere Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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situational lyrics here are simply brilliant: a 15-minute smoke and a silent wave, exaggerated and sadly familiar from across the party or room or street. I see people noise not allowing a voice greeting. I see a slightly unsurprising run-in with a recently estranged love interest. Someone with whom things were going nowhere. The writer's recount of memories involving this person is instantaneous the moment he sees her, and from his dark unnoticed nook across the crowded party, he is again painted with misfortune and thoughtful disappointment (echoes drowning out conversations); in a place of which he is not unfamiliar. I feel that bitterness is not as prominent here as in other elliott songs, more like a regretful sort of harsh lament came at me from the first time i heard this song in lines like "there's no changing my mind" and "it's dead and gone as a matter of fact/ maybe for the best" |
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