| Ben Folds – Late Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A few comments about what I have read: I think when fans of Elliott Smith see his name mispelled as "Elliot" they get angry because this is the way his name was spelt in the "suicide" note. Leading many to believe that his girlfriend actually killed him, and wrote a suicide note, and in the process, mispelled his name. It irks me to see it spelled that way because it brings up the emotion that he possibly was murdered, and was taken from earth with many more songs to write and lives to touch. The mispelling is a reminder of what could have been, or what was still to come. Anyway, on to the actual song. "No, no Things were looking up Least that's what I heard No, no Someone came and washed away your hard-earned Piece of mind" I don't own the CD, so I don't know if this is in the booklet, but shouldn't it be "peace of mind"? To me this stanza is a statement pointing blame at Elliott's live in girlfriend who was there the day he died. She washed away his peace of mind by either killing him, or by fighting with him that day, causing him to eventually become so enraged to take his own life. Whatever that means, and if Ben didnt actually know Elliott doesn't mean anything, the song is simply a tribute to the fantastic music that Elliott made. The songs helped Ben get through tough times in his life, along with thousands of other people that are lucky enough to discover him. Shut Up Hannah, I feel the same way, I remember the day I "discovered" Elliott, I was watching Good Will Hunting and realized that all the good songs in the movie were Elliott, downloaded about 30 songs that day because I couldnt get enough of him, then did some research and found out he had died just a few months before, pretty heartbreaking. |
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