The Biggest Lie

Elliott Smith

I'm waiting for the train
Subway that only goes one way

The stupid thing that'll come to pull us apart
And make everybody late
You spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad

Now I'm a crashed credit card registered to Smith -
Not the name that you called me with
You turned white like a saint
I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flaked paint

Oh we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die
Oh I just told the biggest lie
I just told the biggest lie
The biggest lie


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    Of course it's damn complicated and probably most interpretations are right. but for me the last lines oh we're so very precious, you and i and everything that you do makes me want to die oh i just told the biggest lie i just told the biggest lie the biggest lie

    are all about refusing love as something good, and trying to find "safety" in the usual depression, nihilism, even self-pity. But then knowing that it's a "lie". Of course there's again a twist because the fact he repeats the line suggest that the line before can be a lie. So when he says "I just said the biggest lie" the first time I meant it as "I said I wanted to die, but that's a cliché, it's not the truth. I want to be free of cliches", the second means "I lied about lying. I wasn't lying." and then it only leaves you with the idea that he was both sincere and lying at the same time.

    okay maybe I'm twisted myself.

    dorareeveron April 21, 2004   Link

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