Memory Lane Lyrics

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Cover art for Memory Lane lyrics by Elliott Smith

This song he wrote when he was checked into a psychiatric hospital, i don't know when that was but the earliest live version i have heard was from 97... that just an indication of how old this song is. this is what the lyrics were back then

this is the place you'll up when you lose the chase it's the patch or in the pill to make you easier to kill and all anybody knows is you look messed up they inspect you in the head and send you back to bed isolation draws into it static into night builds a little house for you to stay but everybody's scared of this place they're staying away no one counts in memory lane it's just as it appears everybody fears just to see u try to get there evasive piece to fit the part they never knew because they did not want to you keep the doors and windows shut and you'll never show a soul again but isolation draws into it static into night builds a little house for you to stay but everybody's scared of this place and staying away no one counts in memory lane if it's your decision to be open about yourself be careful or else you better be careful or else uncomfortable apart it's all written on my chart and I take what's given me most cooperatively I do what people say and lie in bed all day but im never going to cry under the doctors eye isolation draws into it static into night builds a little house for you to stay but everybody's scared of this place and stayin away no one counts in memory lane

The lyrics did get changed a lot between then and the basement version.