I feel like Coast to Coast may be a Spirit singing to it's heavy/tired soul that doesn't want to come alive and help it's person so there is sort of a compromised negotion between the two then a stalemate reached between the two about their third wheel (the person) at the end and the Spirit begins to leave. I know it's a very egyptian way of looking at the makeup of man but I personally know Elliott was into some weird stuff. And if he is saying pushy preacher at the beginning and 'that's why' over such types at the end perhaps that is his way of saying there is no point in talking about the things he was truly interested in in that way cause it just doesn't work and is brain dead. [by Egyptian earlier I meant, for example here, that the Egyptians taught if your soul doesn't become an astral boat for your eternal spirit in this life before you die then there is no afterlife for you except some kind of being stuck regurgitating down here in the low, which 'is' hades/thuat]. And of course it's a song to his main old girlfriend too because you can detect the patterns but may have also been about Chiba who was said to come around and revitalize him with 'medications' [ie. 'circuit rider' sung in a way that sounds like he's saying cinco de maya too almost]. But there's definitely something 'other-wise' about it that lends me to sense a metaphysical side and not only girlfriend stuff. if this lyrical interpretation seems doubtful consider that Sam, his best friend, said all he can remember ever doing on his own tours with Quasi is picking up equipment and taking it to the next place but all he ever remembers doing all the time when touring with Elliott is reading Occult books with him. Reading Elliott's lyrics to 'A Living Will' should make this background abundantly clear.
And in other songs Elliott says:
'I'm a crash credit card registered to 'Smith' not the name that you call me with.'
'why should you want any other when you're a world within a world.'
And there is the red balloon he carries around in his video which he explained the meaning of..
And there is his interview where he says his best songs are like one part of him, in him, singing to another part in him.
.....
My sister dated him for awhile in a sweet and innocent way and I knew a lot about him then and even briefly met him a little after that but was too scared to talk to him..or maybe it was like two brujo's circling each other like bulls, or like crabs in the sign of cancer, but giving each other friendly estimations, I don't know..it was a stalemate beyond the 'Hi' and assessment. People who say he gave off a blue aura you could almost sense and that he could make you feel like you were shot across to the other side of the room when he looked at you were right - that is what I felt then even before I knew other people said this about him. When he died I cried more then when my Grandfather died who was a great man - and I never even really knew him. But one sensed he was a human who went through a lot of suffering by people not like him but he always maintained himself like a gentleman to people in a BIG way to the end. Being that way would mean nothing if he didn't have something otherworldly in him because there are plenty of dead souled excellent smilers but he did and so that was why it means something important that he suceeded. One sensed at that time that he did and that he was, in a way beyond sense, out of this world before and after his death (btw..I lean toward thinking he was murdered by someone other then his girlfriend and that - almost certainly - it was not suicide). But, in any case, as the Sufi's say: 'Leave your life before your life leaves you.' and as the medieval author on King Arthur says: 'I won't say that he never died but that even before he had left this life he became immortal.' And as Elliott Smith says: 'Now I never leave my soul reposed although I'm going home...' One sensed this of Elliott to some degree and no doubt even David Bowie, also into strange practices, who was coming down to visit him at a certain point near the end having sensed something similar about him. [Bowie and Plant always show up like Gandalf's when people in the little hobbit world of music actually start doing something that connects with something bigger - for example Plant showing up at Ian Astbury's recording of Love before many yet knew of him etc.]
So enough pre-ambling, here is my Interpretation. When listening very closely all of it sounds more like this then any of the variants proposed so far I am fairly strongly convinced. I wouldn't have realized the interpretation also if I hadn't have started hearing these anomalies in the sounds of the words of the lyrics too - and I only did so also while half asleep in that in-between state where you hear other-wise sometimes:
inaudible: emtn (?)
inaudible: Grdjf (?)
[Spirit speaking to Soul about Person:]
last stalk for a re-sol-ution
end of the life: is a con-fus-ion so low
I go and see what's there for you..
nothing new, nothing new for you to 'you' ..s ('use')
I've got no new act to abuse you
I've got no desire to use you, you know
but anything that I could do
would never be good enough for you if...
you can't help it.. then just leave it alone
[2nd voice, soul, chimes in higher, happily agreeing and being sluggishly tempting:] 'leave it alone'
[Back to Spirit talking to torpid soul:] leave it alone..
yeah just forget it, it's really easy, I believe I forget it too
[now screaming to his soul:]
still keeping me around
till I finally drag us both down
pulling feathers out of your hat
yes I believe that's come to that..:
you belong, tagging along
and I belong in the Zoo
'I'.........................................................
so I wait for confirmation that you're never gonna use your starting gun
unless it's me it seems like 'being him' just wasn't that much fun
[soul sings:]
anything that I could do
[spirit cuts back in quickly:]
..would never be good enough for you:
if you can't help it then just leave it alone
[soul tempting:] leave it alone
[spirit:] leave me alone
[soul tempting:] leave me alone
[spirit:] yeah just forget it, it's really easy, I'll forget it too
coast to coast, coast to coast
[then the rest is the Spirit's lament:]
I'll do what I can so you can 'be what you do'
coast to coast, coast to coast
I'll do everything I can so you can 'be what you do'
coast to coast, coast to coast
cinco de maya/circuit rider [full moon?] comes every 4th/5th Sun day
Oh my Lord I fell asleep one Day
anything that I could do...
is there anything that I could do
that someone doesn't do for you
that someone didn't do for you
yeah/now that I'm already done for you
Also I've noticed recently at the beginning I think he may be saying: 'emotional'..'reject.' And at the end he may be saying 'is there anything that I could do....that I've already done for you?' and in the middle it sounds sometimes like he may be pronouncing it: 'Ghost to Ghost' which would confirm how I'm interpreting him.
Also I've noticed recently at the beginning I think he may be saying: 'emotional'..'reject.' And at the end he may be saying 'is there anything that I could do....that I've already done for you?' and in the middle it sounds sometimes like he may be pronouncing it: 'Ghost to Ghost' which would confirm how I'm interpreting him.
and here is what the last blabbering voice on the left ear says: "free chance underhand unforgiven all my speech that went, disembodied from the political mass: the bliss of the wilderness you held out to me in...
e> and here is what the last blabbering voice on the left ear says: "free chance underhand unforgiven all my speech that went, disembodied from the political mass: the bliss of the wilderness you held out to me in the palm of your hand. emanate your presence and let me strive in indigo shadows for your tolerance. when fog rolls in and seldom folk..their surface wings flutters that flit from nervous pillows thy soul to be consumed by the snow white coal(d). if only the plaster could hold and withstand the flame then this founding torch would know no shame and be outstripped by the sun/son that burns with the glory and honour of your immortal holy name. In the twilight the morning starts aglow unmistakable...keeping my word I go with swooning and swade, tiffany back filled with ancient tourmaline and...
and the second voice:
information,sublime guest, fuel jacked with tackle, conversation, to be either emanent with envy or envied with empty while fortune does divy crayons with false security, and I take mine from one green world after the next, no I don't take bets. these shifts have almost sculptered notes this: but the silent unreflected pages of the calendars future songs. let them register from priceless indicisive scrolling over com branch. a Designer with the attitude of greater exchange and chance: free wills meritorious motive for change within the blueprints of fates ranged map unrolled from its sealed scroll in meditative trance in velvet windows by your face as you dance looking out past the brainage: deep space from which to each his branch
something like that. someone could polish those up a little and fill in a few missing words.
I feel like Coast to Coast may be a Spirit singing to it's heavy/tired soul that doesn't want to come alive and help it's person so there is sort of a compromised negotion between the two then a stalemate reached between the two about their third wheel (the person) at the end and the Spirit begins to leave. I know it's a very egyptian way of looking at the makeup of man but I personally know Elliott was into some weird stuff. And if he is saying pushy preacher at the beginning and 'that's why' over such types at the end perhaps that is his way of saying there is no point in talking about the things he was truly interested in in that way cause it just doesn't work and is brain dead. [by Egyptian earlier I meant, for example here, that the Egyptians taught if your soul doesn't become an astral boat for your eternal spirit in this life before you die then there is no afterlife for you except some kind of being stuck regurgitating down here in the low, which 'is' hades/thuat]. And of course it's a song to his main old girlfriend too because you can detect the patterns but may have also been about Chiba who was said to come around and revitalize him with 'medications' [ie. 'circuit rider' sung in a way that sounds like he's saying cinco de maya too almost]. But there's definitely something 'other-wise' about it that lends me to sense a metaphysical side and not only girlfriend stuff. if this lyrical interpretation seems doubtful consider that Sam, his best friend, said all he can remember ever doing on his own tours with Quasi is picking up equipment and taking it to the next place but all he ever remembers doing all the time when touring with Elliott is reading Occult books with him. Reading Elliott's lyrics to 'A Living Will' should make this background abundantly clear. And in other songs Elliott says: 'I'm a crash credit card registered to 'Smith' not the name that you call me with.' 'why should you want any other when you're a world within a world.' And there is the red balloon he carries around in his video which he explained the meaning of.. And there is his interview where he says his best songs are like one part of him, in him, singing to another part in him. ..... My sister dated him for awhile in a sweet and innocent way and I knew a lot about him then and even briefly met him a little after that but was too scared to talk to him..or maybe it was like two brujo's circling each other like bulls, or like crabs in the sign of cancer, but giving each other friendly estimations, I don't know..it was a stalemate beyond the 'Hi' and assessment. People who say he gave off a blue aura you could almost sense and that he could make you feel like you were shot across to the other side of the room when he looked at you were right - that is what I felt then even before I knew other people said this about him. When he died I cried more then when my Grandfather died who was a great man - and I never even really knew him. But one sensed he was a human who went through a lot of suffering by people not like him but he always maintained himself like a gentleman to people in a BIG way to the end. Being that way would mean nothing if he didn't have something otherworldly in him because there are plenty of dead souled excellent smilers but he did and so that was why it means something important that he suceeded. One sensed at that time that he did and that he was, in a way beyond sense, out of this world before and after his death (btw..I lean toward thinking he was murdered by someone other then his girlfriend and that - almost certainly - it was not suicide). But, in any case, as the Sufi's say: 'Leave your life before your life leaves you.' and as the medieval author on King Arthur says: 'I won't say that he never died but that even before he had left this life he became immortal.' And as Elliott Smith says: 'Now I never leave my soul reposed although I'm going home...' One sensed this of Elliott to some degree and no doubt even David Bowie, also into strange practices, who was coming down to visit him at a certain point near the end having sensed something similar about him. [Bowie and Plant always show up like Gandalf's when people in the little hobbit world of music actually start doing something that connects with something bigger - for example Plant showing up at Ian Astbury's recording of Love before many yet knew of him etc.] So enough pre-ambling, here is my Interpretation. When listening very closely all of it sounds more like this then any of the variants proposed so far I am fairly strongly convinced. I wouldn't have realized the interpretation also if I hadn't have started hearing these anomalies in the sounds of the words of the lyrics too - and I only did so also while half asleep in that in-between state where you hear other-wise sometimes:
inaudible: emtn (?) inaudible: Grdjf (?) [Spirit speaking to Soul about Person:] last stalk for a re-sol-ution end of the life: is a con-fus-ion so low I go and see what's there for you.. nothing new, nothing new for you to 'you' ..s ('use')
[2nd voice, soul, chimes in higher, happily agreeing and being sluggishly tempting:] 'leave it alone' [Back to Spirit talking to torpid soul:] leave it alone.. yeah just forget it, it's really easy, I believe I forget it too
[now screaming to his soul:] still keeping me around till I finally drag us both down pulling feathers out of your hat yes I believe that's come to that..: you belong, tagging along and I belong in the Zoo 'I'......................................................... so I wait for confirmation that you're never gonna use your starting gun unless it's me it seems like 'being him' just wasn't that much fun [soul sings:] anything that I could do [spirit cuts back in quickly:] ..would never be good enough for you: if you can't help it then just leave it alone [soul tempting:] leave it alone [spirit:] leave me alone [soul tempting:] leave me alone [spirit:] yeah just forget it, it's really easy, I'll forget it too coast to coast, coast to coast [then the rest is the Spirit's lament:]
I'll do what I can so you can 'be what you do' coast to coast, coast to coast I'll do everything I can so you can 'be what you do' coast to coast, coast to coast
cinco de maya/circuit rider [full moon?] comes every 4th/5th Sun day Oh my Lord I fell asleep one Day
anything that I could do... is there anything that I could do that someone doesn't do for you that someone didn't do for you yeah/now that I'm already done for you
Also I've noticed recently at the beginning I think he may be saying: 'emotional'..'reject.' And at the end he may be saying 'is there anything that I could do....that I've already done for you?' and in the middle it sounds sometimes like he may be pronouncing it: 'Ghost to Ghost' which would confirm how I'm interpreting him.
Also I've noticed recently at the beginning I think he may be saying: 'emotional'..'reject.' And at the end he may be saying 'is there anything that I could do....that I've already done for you?' and in the middle it sounds sometimes like he may be pronouncing it: 'Ghost to Ghost' which would confirm how I'm interpreting him.
and here is what the last blabbering voice on the left ear says: "free chance underhand unforgiven all my speech that went, disembodied from the political mass: the bliss of the wilderness you held out to me in...
e>
and here is what the last blabbering voice on the left ear says: "free chance underhand unforgiven all my speech that went, disembodied from the political mass: the bliss of the wilderness you held out to me in the palm of your hand. emanate your presence and let me strive in indigo shadows for your tolerance. when fog rolls in and seldom folk..their surface wings flutters that flit from nervous pillows thy soul to be consumed by the snow white coal(d). if only the plaster could hold and withstand the flame then this founding torch would know no shame and be outstripped by the sun/son that burns with the glory and honour of your immortal holy name. In the twilight the morning starts aglow unmistakable...keeping my word I go with swooning and swade, tiffany back filled with ancient tourmaline and...and the second voice: information,sublime guest, fuel jacked with tackle, conversation, to be either emanent with envy or envied with empty while fortune does divy crayons with false security, and I take mine from one green world after the next, no I don't take bets. these shifts have almost sculptered notes this: but the silent unreflected pages of the calendars future songs. let them register from priceless indicisive scrolling over com branch. a Designer with the attitude of greater exchange and chance: free wills meritorious motive for change within the blueprints of fates ranged map unrolled from its sealed scroll in meditative trance in velvet windows by your face as you dance looking out past the brainage: deep space from which to each his branch
something like that. someone could polish those up a little and fill in a few missing words.