| Elliott Smith – St. Ides Heaven Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ughh Sylvia Plath is an author I have a hard time respecting, given all of the shit that her writing inspired..Thanks a lot Sylvia Plath for increasing the number of "bi-sexual know-it-alls" | |
| Elliott Smith – Coming Up Roses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Let's cut out all these drug generalities and stick to the point. Remember, it's Elliott Smith not Kurt Cobain. No this song isn't about Heroin. Those of you who believe that either have never made the mistake of taking hard drugs or have a perspective that is limited by what movies and television dictate. This song is about meth just like St Ides Heaven. "I don't need your permission to bury my love under this bare light bulb" A bare light bulb or one that has been hollowed out, are used by tweakers to smoke meth or freebase other substances. Some gas stations/liquer stores sell roses inclosed in a glass tube. When you extract the rose from the tube with tweazers, it becomes a smoking device often reffered to as a bubble. Glass stained black is what results from getting high using these instruments(bubbles/light bulbs). That might be what Smith was reffering too given the many referrances to meth in the song (spun glass, sore eyes, ect) "cold white brother riding yr blood like spun glass in sore eyes" This phrase doesnt necessarily pertain to injecting meth but more so the substance being active in one's system given any form of consuming the substance; all forms of consumption pass through the blood stream. For those that still think the song is about Heroin, please look up "spun" in the drug dictionary. No one has ever been spun out on heroin, they get strung out on Heroin. Even mainstream acts such as Green Day know this, "Fucked up and spun out in my room. on my own here we go" --Insomniac album In conclusion, no one will really know the lyrical interpretation of Elliott Smith songs, only Elliott himself. With that said, I feel his songs much like all songs are subjected to the listener's personal experience and their own application to what the lyrics mean to them. Elliott once said that you can take a picture of New York and one person could feel sad and others would feel happy. Point being that art, music, lyrics, ect are subjected to individual interpretation and the real reasons dwell in the mind of its creator. |
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