Division Day Lyrics

Lyric discussion by dorareever 

Cover art for Division Day lyrics by Elliott Smith

now, i'm not the kind of person that thinks that every single song written by Elliott is either about drugs or suicide. But this one makes me think of suicide, and that's my intepretation of it. Nothing to do with supposed biographical facts, it's just sounds like a suicide songs. The upbeat melody sort of confirms it, it's like the character in the song leads a shitty life until he comes to the decision So it's dark but uplifting in a twisted way. I'm not sure if there's some particular meaning to the words Division Day, like if it's something like a weird holiday I don't know about cos I'm not American, but for me I have always seen it like the day of your death, when your soul and body go separate ways. Maybe that's just bullshit, but I like my intepretation.

This makes a lot of sense to me.