Lyric discussion by trippyapple 

Cover art for Stickman lyrics by Elliott Smith

these lyrics have a lot of errors... lots of flawed versions have been floating around but this is what i've gathered after many, many listenings of the demo and i think it's nearly completely correct

I sit here shooting blanks Out of emptiness Ain’t nothing really want to kill Maybe your time I guess Sit and spin the world and its flipside And I listen backwards for meanings

'Cause i’m a stickman I live with one dimension dead Try not to think too many moves ahead

I draw from memory The stillest kind of life Slide after slide You know pain's the sharpest knife Project what's done so everyone can see To me it's just a reversal

And I'm a stickman Frames they go one by one If I sped it up You'd see I'm on the run From some monster off screen Killing sons

Lonely makes me blue Envy turns me green Hate might paint me red If I load my magazine But not just now when it's easy to stay clean When no one sees where you're bleeding

And I'm a stickman Stickman