Some Song (Help Me Kill My Time)

Erm... no.

It isn't "rad" when the costume is your own skin. Halloween-halloween, fun, yes, but to feel like you're putting on a show/wearing a costume you can't get out of day after day... it's not fun. It's absolutely depressing and miserable.

this song talks about abuse.. Elliott had a messed up relationship with his step dad and a lot of kids had abusive parents in the neighborhood where he grew up in Texas.

"you're a symphony, man, with one fucking note

how they beat you up week after week

and when you grow up you're going to be a freak

want a violent girl who's not scared of anything

help me kill my time

cos I'll never be fine "

think about it (:

It isn't about drugs or abuse. It's about loneliness and alienation. This song is talking about Elliott Smith himself. None of the references to violence are literal.

Just a slight correction to the lyrics that might make a difference in the way you interperet this song. (straight from sweetadeline.net) "how they beat you up week after week" is actually "charlie beat you up week after week". which makes sense if he's singing about himself becauseCharlie was his abusive step father.

and the beauty of his songs is that everyone can take something different out of them. so, JimmieNeverDies, maybe to you all his songs discuss drugs, but to me it depends. sure he could be always singing about drugs, but he did it in a way that you can read into it in many different ways.

dude, i love this song. "its halloween tonight and every night". that would be so rad.

I thinkt this song is about someone pretending to be someone else, for whatever reason. "it's halloween tonight and every night."

perhaps it's a goth person.

i've always thought the song was about drugs. the first half doesn't seem like it, but the other half definitely draws some parallels.

"Yes. Every Elliott Smith song is actually about drugs"

Oh, definitely. This crackhead was nothing but a depressed amateur who wrote little ditties about the joy of drugs with his dictionary.

Ugh, I know how you feel. I'm so sick of seeing songs like "Between the Bars" and hearing "This one MUST be about drugs. Maybe the bars symbolise ciggarettes?!?"

Either way, this song is absolutely beautiful. The Dallas thing is about his mom, I'm pretty sure.

This song deserves a title anyway.

although i do think that it has some to do with abuse, but i think it's something on a much larger scale. something about his life never achieving greatness, and he accepts that, and now is just 'killing his time'