Status

Elliott Smith song

Alternate Version/Title

First Timer
Ghost Writer

Written By

Elliott Smith

Recording Sessions

January-October 2003 (New Monkey Studios, Los Angeles, CA and Smith Residence, Los Angeles, CA - Sessions with Fritz Michaud)

Availability of Official Release

N/A

Lyrics

I’m a ghostwriter for an ocean in a shell 
From the poison well 
In the corridor by a picture in a frame 
Of a man with no name 
Don’t get back into a corner
Talking to yourself
Come on back to me
My bright tomorrow 
But if you feel hollow 
Well, it’s probably because you are 
Well, at least so far 
I think of you with hesitation
I think of you too hard
Come on back to me
But don’t make me sorry
I’m a ghostwriter for an ocean in a shell 
From the poison well 
From the poison well

Lyric sheet from 1999 (thanks to snowballinhell)

i’m a ghostwriter for an ocean in a shell
for a bottomless well
in the corridor by a picture in a frame
of a man with no name
a bottle’s breaking in the corner talking to itself
come on back to me my bright tomorrow
but if you feel hollow well it’s probably cause you are
or at least so far
memory tracks me like a killer 
memory hits too hard
come on back to me but don’t make me sorry
i’m a ghostwriter for an ocean in a shell
for a bottomless well
for a bottomless well

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