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Your hand on his arm, the hay stack charm around your neck, strung out and thin, calling some friend trying to cash some check, he's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect. * I can't beat myselfI can't beat myselfAnd I don't want to talk.I'm taking the cure so I can be quietWhenever I want.So leave me aloneYou ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks. (Elliott Smith)
"Your arsenal of excuses you never told herwhen you walked out on the savannah shoulderwith your veins all full of beerthinking 'well at least now everything is clear' View quote
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I waited for a busTo separate the both of usAnd take me off far away from you'Cause my feelings never change a bitI always feel like shitI don't know why; I guess that I "just do" View quote
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It's a picture perfect eveningAnd I'm staring down the sunFully loaded, deaf, and dumbAnd done waiting for sedation to disconnect my headOr any situation where I'm better off than dead. View quote
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I'm a roman candleMy head is full of flamesI want to hurt himI want to give him painAnd make him feel this pretty burn. View quote
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The scraping subjects, ruled by fear, they told mewhiskey works better than beer. View quote
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"I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy the cold comfort of the in between a little less than a human being a little less than a happy high a little less than a suicide the only things that you really tried. View quote
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You don't deserve to be lonely,but those drugs you got won't make you feel better. Pretty soon you'll find it's the only little part of your life you're keeping together. View quote
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"Everything here is freeEverything but you and meThis painting never driesStupidity tries. View quote
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Because your candle burns too brightwell, I almost forgot it was twilight. Even if I think that you are right, well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight. You're wonderful, and it's beautiful, but I'm already somebody's baby. And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too. View quote
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I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying. (Elliott Smith)
I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in. View quote
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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. View quote
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I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records. View quote
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I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything. View quote
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It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning. View quote
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I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place. View quote
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There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know. View quote
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There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know? View quote
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Crooked spin can't come to rest, I'm damaged bad at best. View quote
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I'm in love with the world, Through the eyes of a girl, Who's still around the morning after. (Elliott Smith)
So I wait for confirmation That you're never gonna use your starting gun. View quote
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Shine on me, baby cause it's raining in my heart. View quote
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And though you'd rather see me gone then to see there come the day, I'll be waiting for you anyway. View quote
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Next door, the TV's flashing blue frames on the wall. It's a comedy from the seventies with a lead no one recalls. He vanished into oblivion it's easy to do and I cried a sea when you talked to me the day you said we were through. But it's all right, some enchanted night I'll be with you. View quote
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