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| Elliott Smith – Easy Way Out Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The creative thinker / body-to-push-around part of the song is mysterious-- unless it refers to his mother, or a half-sibling. I can't help thinking the song has to do with his stepfather. Charlie may have thought he was being used when Elliott started writing songs alleging abuse and using Charlie's name. Supposedly around 1998 Charlie wrote Elliott a letter apologizing for being so hard on him. Elliott might have considered writing a letter to make up for destroying someone's childhood an "easy way out." But Elliott also said in interviews that the person involved in his abuse had become a changed man. That would have left Elliott without an enemy. He still had his childhood issues, but no focus for them. The line "I got stuck on a side you know I never chose" certainly sounds like he got stuck on his mother's side of the family. |
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| Elliott Smith – Division Day Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's painfully clear what this song is about. The sick exchange haunts the narrator throughout his life and is a factor in his urge toward suicide. The fear of hell makes sense, too. This was a churchgoing family, and it almost seems that the narrator would prefer suicide and hell to meeting up with a certain churchgoing family member in heaven. I don't see how Elliott could not have been abused as a child. That's the subject of the first song on his first album, and it isn't a subject that comes up at random. Somebody did something to him. |
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