Status

Elliott Smith Song

Written By

Elliott Smith

Recording Sessions

1995-1996 (Uppinghouse Residence, Portland, OR - Self-Titled session)
March - May 1995 (Fremont Rental Residence, Portland, OR - Pre-Either/Or sessions)
Fall 1996 (Undercover Inc, Portland, OR - Plainclothes Man) - uncirculating

Availability of Official Release

From a Basement on the Hill
Heaven Adores You

Lyrics

Here’s the army
That you mowed to the ground
And the bodies you left lying around
Talking it out
The last hour
I’m through trying now
It’s a big relief
I’ll be staying down
Where no-one else gonna give me grief
Mess me around
Just make it over

Your opinion was the law of the land
A single thing that I couldn’t always understand
I lived it out from hour to hour
The only thing that never really changed
You ran me all around
And dragged me down
At the end of the day
Don’t keep me around
Just make it over

I’ve been thinking of the things that I missed
Situations that I passed up for this
One way love I took for ours
I’m through trying now
It’s a big relief
I’ll be staying down
I wasn’t good at being a thief
More like a clown
Make it over

First known live performance

1996-04-09 (Knitting Factory, New York, NY, USA)

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