This song has got to be about Eliott Smith. The misery pusher has been served well by suffering 'It's common but it somehow sells'.
Obviously Cook has a low opinion of the scope and ambition of Smith's music, and even goes as far as mocking it's sincerity: 'You never cried, you never froze, and yet how well you graden grows'.
This song is a direct challenge to Smith to push himself and his music out of it's self absorbed state of misery. 'Please do!' is pleaded at the last, in some way to clear the stench of sour grapes.
This song has got to be about Eliott Smith. The misery pusher has been served well by suffering 'It's common but it somehow sells'. Obviously Cook has a low opinion of the scope and ambition of Smith's music, and even goes as far as mocking it's sincerity: 'You never cried, you never froze, and yet how well you graden grows'. This song is a direct challenge to Smith to push himself and his music out of it's self absorbed state of misery. 'Please do!' is pleaded at the last, in some way to clear the stench of sour grapes.
There is no way in the world that this song is about Elliott Smith. You are absolutely fucking insane for believing that. Are you completely stupid?
There is no way in the world that this song is about Elliott Smith. You are absolutely fucking insane for believing that. Are you completely stupid?