Status

Heatmiser song

Written By

Elliott Smith

Recording Sessions

January-June 1994 (Musicraft Studio, Wilsonville, OR; and Nightcap Studios (aka Heatmiser House) and White Horse Studios, Portland, OR - Heatmiser - Cop & Speeder - 3 sessions)

Availability of Official Release

Cop & Speeder

Lyrics

Why are you here
Couldn’t you tell him
Were you afraid he’d hear
You should have been thankful to be alone
You took off your shoes
Said anything further would be bad news
Because you’d already started to disappear
And he couldn’t complain
Just looked at your lyric and crossed over to play
A record of quiet instrumentals
And I like what you wrote
This is a record full of sour notes
You should’ve been thankful to be alone

And I like what you wrote
But don’t say you mean it when you know you don’t
You should have been thankful to be alone, you know
You should have been thankful to be alone, you know
You should have been thankful to be alone

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