| Elliott Smith – Christian Brothers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Umm... firstly it's an interpretation so it can't be wrong. Secondly, there are tons of reasons that song is about alcohol... I actually wrote a paper on it for one of my English classes. I could e-mail it to you sometime or if you're interested I could just explain it on here. What interpretation did you draw from it? And it doesn't matter what the lyric booklet says, what he sings in the song and in every live performance of it is "this sick I want" so that's how it should be recorded. |
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| Elliott Smith – Christian Brothers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Can someone explain how to change the lyrics on this site? The lyric is CLEARLY "Don't be cross, this sick I want" not "Don't be cross, it's sick what I want" You may think it makes more sense as "it's sick what I want" but it isn't the job of the people on this site to decide what makes more sense, it's to record the actual lyrics and make interpretations based off of them. If you're using the wrong lyrics, you're going to get wrong interpretations. Listen to the song, you'll easily be able to tell it's "This sick I want" The lyric "This sick I want" is an implies "This sickness is what I want" and has the same basic meaning as Between the Bars. Both of these songs are about a surrender to alcohol. |
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| Elliott Smith – Christian Brothers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Seconded. The lyrics on this site are definitely wrong. The lyric is "This sick I want" implying the lyric "This sickness is what I want" |
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| Elliott Smith – Looking Over My Shoulder Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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alright. the lyric is definitely "Sonic" not "Sonnet" Sonnet doesn't even make sense there. there's no pause after the debated word (sonic), and there's also no pause after "fuck you" that makes it impossible for it to be "got nothing that I want to do more than make another sonnet; fuck you; to play" the whole term is "sonic fuck you" as in, a song (sonic, sound) that's telling someone off. Elliott Smith never wrote sonnets. his style was free verse. Sonnets are hard to adapt to music. This should end any debate. |
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