| Elliott Smith – A Passing Feeling Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i have listened to this song many times and also know that elliott was into heroin off and on throughout his career (heavy-up toward his untimely end). it is my guess that this is a song about using heroin and the radical downside to the drug. "dead power lines", i'm convinced, alludes to the over-used veins in his arm and the lack of "relief" he ultimately experienced through the injection of the drug. additionally, the idea that it "took a long time to stand/took an hour to fall" i believe alludes to the drug and his fight to get over it; that is, recovery is slow and hard and relapse using the drug "took (only) an hour to fall." | |
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