Alphabet Town Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bernardofbbraga 

Cover art for Alphabet Town lyrics by Elliott Smith

first I tought this: the male in the song is with some girl he's not in love with. He loves someone else but is with this one just to pass the time, and to make it worse, she is ok with it. He fells bad about going out with her when he loves someone else. I did that once. I went out with a girl thinking about another, and said the other girls name. It's common to do that, cause you're using her as a substitute for the one you didn't get.

Now I think that he's going out with a drug whore. Someone who sticks around with him to score drugs. Read again the lyrics with this interpretation in mind, it makes perfect sense