Status

Stranger Than Fiction song
Elliott Smith song

Written By

Elliott Smith
Garrick Duckler

Recording Sessions

1987 (WoofBark Sound, Portland, OR - Stranger Than Fiction - Menagerie - Basic Tracks)
1987 (?, Portland, OR - Stranger Than Fiction - Menagerie - Backing Tracks) - additional tracking
March-May 1996 (Smith Residence, Portland, OR - Either/Or Sessions at Elliott’s House)

Availability of Official Release

Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol. 2

Lyrics

Dogs eat dogs eat dogs
Move through
There’s rain inside your house
For our moods
But I don’t want to live here
Even if it’s all we’ve got

Mr. Big got an expectation
Thinks he thinks he’s my education
He said, “Don’t you think
We could make a couple of G’s”
Why don’t you go for yourself
And take what’s coming to you?

I didn’t want to go inside
It’s a burned out party
It’s killing my pride
Just want to live with her again
Can we do that?
Even if we can’t stand to
Sleep in the same bed

Mr. Big got an expectation
Thinks he thinks he’s my education
He said, “Don’t you think
We could make a couple of G’s”
Why don’t you go for yourself
And take what’s waiting for you?

Fetched the mail at a quarter ‘til one
I think the mailman thinks I’m dumb
I think the mailman thinks me dumb

Audio