I found this to be really interesting, you probably will too. From Elliott Smith's last interview before his untimely death he made these comments on this song: "I was really into staying up four or five days at a time while recording. Some of them didn't take to long like this one. There was a co-producer early on but he didn't really co-produce. He just walked angrily in and out of the room because I knew what I wanted to do. I'm playing every instrument on this one except one. There's also a fill in this song that's almost all kick drum and sounds really funny."
i have listened to this song many times and also know that elliott was into heroin off and on throughout his career (heavy-up toward his untimely end). it is my guess that this is a song about using heroin and the radical downside to the drug. "dead power lines", i'm convinced, alludes to the over-used veins in his arm and the lack of "relief" he ultimately experienced through the injection of the drug. additionally, the idea that it "took a long time to stand/took an hour to fall" i believe alludes to the drug and his fight to get...
i have listened to this song many times and also know that elliott was into heroin off and on throughout his career (heavy-up toward his untimely end). it is my guess that this is a song about using heroin and the radical downside to the drug. "dead power lines", i'm convinced, alludes to the over-used veins in his arm and the lack of "relief" he ultimately experienced through the injection of the drug. additionally, the idea that it "took a long time to stand/took an hour to fall" i believe alludes to the drug and his fight to get over it; that is, recovery is slow and hard and relapse using the drug "took (only) an hour to fall."
Musicians don't write and pour their heart and soul out to tell you about the drugs they are on. They are analogies relating to his life. Every Elliot Smith song on here has comments that says he's talking about frickin heroin. I believe he could have written this song with no intent in having the listener think he was on heroin. There's a bigger message here people.
Musicians don't write and pour their heart and soul out to tell you about the drugs they are on. They are analogies relating to his life. Every Elliot Smith song on here has comments that says he's talking about frickin heroin. I believe he could have written this song with no intent in having the listener think he was on heroin. There's a bigger message here people.
I found this to be really interesting, you probably will too. From Elliott Smith's last interview before his untimely death he made these comments on this song: "I was really into staying up four or five days at a time while recording. Some of them didn't take to long like this one. There was a co-producer early on but he didn't really co-produce. He just walked angrily in and out of the room because I knew what I wanted to do. I'm playing every instrument on this one except one. There's also a fill in this song that's almost all kick drum and sounds really funny."
i have listened to this song many times and also know that elliott was into heroin off and on throughout his career (heavy-up toward his untimely end). it is my guess that this is a song about using heroin and the radical downside to the drug. "dead power lines", i'm convinced, alludes to the over-used veins in his arm and the lack of "relief" he ultimately experienced through the injection of the drug. additionally, the idea that it "took a long time to stand/took an hour to fall" i believe alludes to the drug and his fight to get...
i have listened to this song many times and also know that elliott was into heroin off and on throughout his career (heavy-up toward his untimely end). it is my guess that this is a song about using heroin and the radical downside to the drug. "dead power lines", i'm convinced, alludes to the over-used veins in his arm and the lack of "relief" he ultimately experienced through the injection of the drug. additionally, the idea that it "took a long time to stand/took an hour to fall" i believe alludes to the drug and his fight to get over it; that is, recovery is slow and hard and relapse using the drug "took (only) an hour to fall."
Musicians don't write and pour their heart and soul out to tell you about the drugs they are on. They are analogies relating to his life. Every Elliot Smith song on here has comments that says he's talking about frickin heroin. I believe he could have written this song with no intent in having the listener think he was on heroin. There's a bigger message here people.
Musicians don't write and pour their heart and soul out to tell you about the drugs they are on. They are analogies relating to his life. Every Elliot Smith song on here has comments that says he's talking about frickin heroin. I believe he could have written this song with no intent in having the listener think he was on heroin. There's a bigger message here people.