I Better Be Quiet Now Lyrics

Lyric discussion by makeartnotmath 

Cover art for I Better Be Quiet Now lyrics by Elliott Smith

"a lot of hours to occupy it was easy when i didn't know you yet, things i'd have to forget. "

i think he's talking about the time in relationships that you unknowingly devote to the other person. at the beginning, this is a good change, you're putting yourself into someone else.

but at the end you can't remember how you used to get by without them, and frankly, sometimes people never remember.

@makeartnotmath I think it's more so the fact that time flies when you're with your partner that it's not hard to kill time, but when you break up you dwell so much on the sadness and despair that an hour seems like forever and the only way to fix that is to "have to forget" in order to get things back to normal...

@makeartnotmath I think it's more so the fact that time flies when you're with your partner that it's not hard to kill time, but when you break up you dwell so much on the sadness and despair that an hour seems like forever and the only way to fix that is to "have to forget" in order to get things back to normal...