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Cut this picture into you and me
Burn it backwards, kill this history
Make it over, make it stay away
Or hate'll sing the ending that love started to say
There's a kid a floor below me saying
"Brother, can you spare sunshine for a brother, Old Man Winter's in the air"
Walked me up a story, asking how you are
Told me not to worry, you were just a shooting star
Sweet Adeline
Sweet Adeline
My Clementine
Sweet Adeline
It's a picture-perfect evening and I'm staring down the sun
Fully loaded, deaf and dumb and done
Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
Or any situation where I'm better off than dead
Burn it backwards, kill this history
Make it over, make it stay away
Or hate'll sing the ending that love started to say
There's a kid a floor below me saying
"Brother, can you spare sunshine for a brother, Old Man Winter's in the air"
Walked me up a story, asking how you are
Told me not to worry, you were just a shooting star
Sweet Adeline
Sweet Adeline
My Clementine
Sweet Adeline
It's a picture-perfect evening and I'm staring down the sun
Fully loaded, deaf and dumb and done
Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
Or any situation where I'm better off than dead
Lyrics submitted by EnjOy IncUbus, edited by depersonalised
Sweet Adeline Lyrics as written by Steven Paul Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Oh, and I hate the people who say all his songs are about drugs AND the people who refuse to achknowledge that any of them are about drugs. Yes, Elliott Smith was on drugs (::shocked face::), but that doesn't demean his art in any way, nor should that fact be ignored. It shows that he was human and that he too felt overwhelmed at times and resorted to drastic measures. And that's all I got. Enjoy some of the best lyrics you will ever hear!