Speed Trials Lyrics

Lyric discussion by psilogon 

Cover art for Speed Trials lyrics by Elliott Smith

This song is about a person's inability to confront herself and really look at the scary, introspective things that need to be looked at and resolved. The song is about the frantic dellusion that self-security and happiness and completeness can be produced through changing around physical stances. The song is about the complicated drama produced by that frantic ignorance: the ignorance of not understanding that there is only and always RIGHT HERE AND NOW regardless of the story you tell yourself about how things got to where they are.

The song is about the freightened, desperate race of distracting oneself from his lonliness by running back to familiar grounds and never committing. The song is about running away instead of dealing with what needs to be dealt with.

He's pleased to meet you underneath the Horse; Horse=Heroin May be a long time until you get the call-up But it's sure as fate and hard as your luck; It's that anticipation and frustration when your waiting for your dealer to call you back No one'll know where you are It's just a brief smile crossing your face; It's when your sitting on the train, bus, walking to your connect, or whatever and that flicker of a smile crosses your face because you know in a moments time you'll be so fucking happy Running speed trials still standing in place; this part seems like a redundancy cause how...