Oh Well, Okay Lyrics

Lyric discussion by blackout2oo7 

Cover art for Oh Well, Okay lyrics by Elliott Smith

You could almost say maybe he's talking to/about himself until "if you get a feeling next time you see me." like a monologue. Just a thought.

This reminds me of a past relationship I had with somebody, a melancholy person who never knew, through all my psychoanalysis and therapy with them, why things were the way they made them. It's been quite awhile now, but you don't usually forget things like that with people who seemed important to you at one time.

Sometimes, after all the shock, you just have these pictures that are fading slowly over the trust you figured was there. It used to be suffocating, but it's a passing face, and you just shrug it off.. "oh well, okay." Even though sometimes you're unsure if it was all just sympathy or if it meant something. If you cared about them, why would you want to just shrug it off like they'd want you to?

I guess one could dedicate this song to a brick wall.