Song Description
Response to Elliot Smith's death
| Song Length |
2:48 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant, Moving |
Subject |
Suicide, Sadness |
| Similar Artists |
Smashing Pumpkins, Toad The Wet Sprocket |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
all the pretty sadness that you painted on your canvas
could not stop the flood that washed away the good luck,
every dark distraction holds the usual attraction:
to be numb enough; did you give up? when
that was now but this is then,
we're back to "here we go again" and
I can let your records spin,
but not the one that isn't done yet...
Julian of Norwich said the world is just a walnut
in the hands of God, that's what she thought about it,
Elliot, the bittersweetness, all the incompleteness
that you saw too well, was that you're hell? now,
do you look down on us? did you think you'd haunt us?
does it all seem different, now that you're beyond us?
stumble into heaven, it's just the way you left it,
that was now but this is then,
we're back to "here we go again" and
I can let your records spin,
but not the one that isn't done yet...