| Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Strung out and thin Calling some friend Trying to cash some check >> daily life (maybe trying to point out how dull it is)? He's acting dumb That's what you've come To expect >> criticizing himself He's wearing your clothes Head down to toes A reaction to you >> he doesn't recognize the person in the mirror anymore? >> he's lost his personality. Sometimes they just Get caught in the eye You're pulling him through >> like a thread on a needle, it follows right behind it (conforming). >> his addiction (whatever it is) is the needle, his personality is the thread being made to conform. Now on the bus Nearly touching This dirty retreat >> showing his disgust for society (or himself)? >> the bus transports us to our next destination. >> go to work, go to school, go home. Going to walk, walk, walk Four more blocks Plus the one in my brain >> he's forcing himself to go somewhere he doesn't want to go. >> walking the block in his brain is a metaphor to trying to reason with himself? Down downstairs To the man He's going to make it all ok >> first thing I thought of was "satan." >> in this case, it could be his own "satan." I can't beat myself I can't beat myself And I don't want to talk >> he's only capable of so much. >> he can only do what he can do, and nothing else. >> and it disgusts him (and I don't want to talk). I'm taking the cure So I can be quiet Whenever I want >> the cure being a reference to probably drugs? >> it's his escaping from the life he hates (so I can be quiet whenever I want). So leave me alone You ought to be proud That I'm getting good marks >> I still think he's talking to himself here. >> "good marks" would be a reference to... well... doing well in work, at school, etc... >> in this way, he is justifying his self destruction (to himself) by saying "atleast I'm doing something good even if I'm not happy." Needle in the hay >> this could be a reference to many things. >> personally I think it's a reference to how he can't recognize himself anymore. >> like he said before, he looks like a stranger to himself (from what I interpreted). >> so he is the needle, and society is the haystack. |
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