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| Elliott Smith – Pitseleh Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I apologize if somebody already mentioned this, but according to the biography, "Torment Saint", "Pitseleh" was a nick-name for an ex-girlfriend of Elliott's. Pitseleh refers to J.J. Gonson, who was the manager of Elliott's early 90's band, Heatmiser. |
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| Elliott Smith – Pitseleh Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[jillyc:6337] My interpretation of those lines is that he's contemplating suicide by looking down the barrel of a gun. He has internalized so much of his pain or "kept it quiet", that the "noise" from the gunshot would be the externalization of his pain. The mention of the "joke" in the 1st verse, I don't think is necessarily relevant. The key part is the suicide contemplating line "I've been dying to tell you" is. You're right about his lyrics making half-sense. I think he left things open to have people put their own interpretations or have the songs apply to their own lives. |
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| Elliott Smith – Cecilia/Amanda Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The line "In a place where lonely men pay to make their opposites match" could be taken a couple of different ways. One interpretation is lonely men going to a whorehouse.
I agree with Worditskevin about the records being methaphor for drugs (Heroin). A needle on a record player/heroin needle. The reference to "fix" the record/junkie getting her fix
Is Cecilia dead from an overdose? Her daughter (?) Amanda asks how longs she's going to be gone? "Every remembrance of you has been buried below". And it looks like Amanda is turning out like her mother did.
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