Lyric discussion by imajar 

Cover art for Abused lyrics by Elliott Smith

very good job transcribing this (whoever did). the music elliott was making in the last days really was something else. if that double album had ever been finished, i think we would have literally one of the great albums of all time.

an absolutely beautiful song. i think the idea of being abused could be taken literally or not. if it is, it seems somewhat self-indulgent on the writer´s part. having said that he had a penchant for sweet pop songs; and with its heavy overdriven guitar it is a brilliant angst-rock anti-anthem.

i have just listened to this song for the first time in a year. it reminds me of somewhere i was, spending winter days in my dressing gown, k´d up in the day and drinking GBL to get to sleep whilst mired in crazy piles of papers and...