Elliott Smith - Unreleased Songs, 25 - 51

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

A work in progress!

This is a partial list (part one to come!) of known unreleased Elliott Smith songs, in alphabetical order, 25-53 of 53. Some of the songs are studio recordings (either demos or otherwise unreleased) and some are only available as live recordings. Unless accompanied by a date/place indicating when and where a song was played live, song lyrics listed are from studio recordings. This list may change and grow over time, depending on whether additional songs are found and leaked, but this is how they stand as of August 2006:

25. Mr. Goodmorning (instrumental studio and with lyrics live) L
26. My New Freedom (aka Doing Okay, Pretty Good) L
27. New Disaster
28. New Monkey
29. No Life
30. No More
31. Now You Wanna Show Me How
32. Place Pigalle (aka Holiday) L
33. Placeholder
34. Riot Coming
35. See You in Heaven (Instrumental)
36. Seen How Things Are Hard
37. A Silver Chain (instrumental studio and with lyrics live) L
38. Sorry My Mistake (instrumental studio and with lyrics live) L
39. Stained Glass Eyes
40. Stickman (two known versions; similar lyrics)
41. Taking a Fall
42. Talking to Mary L
43. Tiny Time Machine/Suicide Machine (TTM version is instrumental; SM version not yet leaked)
44. True Love (aka True Love Is a Rose) L
45. Unlucky Charm (aka Come Out Now) L
46. Untitled (Track 16 from “Basement II”; fan title: Sticks and Stones)
47. Untitled Instrumental (recorded during Basement sessions)
48. Untitled Instrumental (live at Satyricon, 10/14/99)
49. Untitled Instrumental (live at Showbox, 2/23/99)
50. Whatever (Some Folk Song in C) (aka Hanging Out with Me)
51. The Worst Part Is Almost Over
52. Yay! (unleaked “noise” song)
53. You Make It Seem Like Nothing (aka Come to Me) L

L = live recording only

Note: Each of the songs that have lyrics will have their own discussion thread. Please keep discussions of each song, including different variations of each song, to the one thread designated to avoid cluttering the lyrics forum. Thank you.



Additional Note: Songs that were released as B-Sides in some manner or another (for example Big Decision, or the alternate Pretty Mary K) will be listed in a separate B-Sides thread, still to come. Thanks for your patience!

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25.

Mr. Goodmorning

I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning –
Some velvet rope on the curb.
He gave me a wink for a warning;
I saw “do not disturb me.” (number one)*

Don’t try reading my mind,
It isn’t gonna get you anywhere.
Going by, just between us,
I won’t cry, I wasn’t even there.

I made the interior landscape
Where he’s been dancing with you.
Fell in like a leaf on the water –
Nowhere that I’m going to now (no more)

Don’t try reading my mind,
It isn’t gonna get you anywhere.
Going by, just between us,
I won’t cry, I wasn’t even there.

What you could do but you won’t –
I want a future, and you don’t.
This I can’t allow; you’re crashing down. [?] [you’ll cry tonight?]

I saw you with Mr. Goodmorning;
There’s been some others before,
And when you’ve decided he’s boring,
That’s when he’ll think he adores you (oh-oo-whoa-oo)

Don’t try reading my mind,
It isn’t gonna get you anywhere.
Going by, just between us,
I won’t cry, I wasn’t even there.



*In some live versions, Elliott sang "I saw 'do not disturb'", leaving off the "me" (possibly implying a sign on a hotel doorknob).


Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...ht=Goodmorning

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26.

My New Freedom (aka Doing Okay, Pretty Good)

You can go anytime you want –
I won’t watch, it hurts too much.
If you stay, I promise you I’ll be
Better to you, better to me.

Don’t want to come and buy your freedom, [compromise?]
Have a drink to you
‘Cause you made it new,
And I hate everyone I see,
Everyone, everything.

I know I handle situations,
Forget other stuff if I drink enough
To pretend that I’ve got people too,
People I know, who hate what I do.

You, just trying to be nice,
I never asked for advice.

I know I handle situations,
I’ll be discreet and admit defeat.
You can go, and I’ll say what I should:
“I’m doing okay, pretty good.”


Note: These lyrics are from the 12/20/01 live performance; an earlier version has different (and fewer) lyrics.

[Earlier version (from?):

You can go anytime you want –
I won’t barge, it hurts too much.
To stay, and promise you I’ll be
Better to you, better to me.

I know how you said I could buy you freedom,
With a drink to you
‘Cause you made it true,
And I hate people A through Z,
Everything, everything.

You, busy trying to be nice,
I’ve never asked for advice.

I know the hand always pushed you away,
Well, I should.
If you be discreet, I’ll admit a defeat.
You could go, but I’ll say what I should:
“I’m doing okay, pretty good.”]



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8527#post8527

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27.

New Disaster

The ghost of your smile's always looking for new
Bodies to haunt,
And it’s been here and disappeared.

Was hanging around aloofly for a while,
Gradually gone,
It’s pleasing and freezing.

Well, I wonder what it is you’re after,
Keeping company with this disaster.

You looked all over town,
Got turned around
To walk back through the mud –
The kind you had left behind you.

Everybody’s the same
In this long no-win game,
Where every new blood
Gets time to become resigned.

Now I wonder what it is you’re after,
Keeping company with this disaster,
Why you never try to tame your master.

You just blow through the coals,
Blow through the coals,
Blow through the coals
'Til everyone knows
That your smile is just a ghost.

The ghost of your smile was seen on a body in the park –
It’s old news,
You see that it’s no use.

Waiting to start ,
Waiting ‘til light,
Wait until dark.
I told you man, I told you.

Well, I wonder what it is you’re after,
Keeping company with this disaster,
Why you never try to tame your master.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8529#post8529

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28.

New Monkey

Here comes the sidewalk boss again,
Telling me how I can’t cave in,
But I’m a study in black,
Need a pat on the back.
I look up and smile,
A picture of dissatisfaction
That he can only see as a junkie.
Though I might be straight as an arrow,
He’s busy shaking hands with my monkey,
Busy shaking hands with my monkey.

I go in the car, straight to the bar
Where my speed equals the beer;
Hoards of millions of fans ignoring the bands
Basting my ears. [Wasting?]
Wants me to live in denial,
Says “You’ve got to settle for something.”
Though it might not be any living,
Anything is better than nothing,
Anything is better than nothing.

No acting action man gonna move in in my place,
I’ll be pumping out the product, it’s a total waste.

Look at your hand blown off your thigh [five?]
Look at the week you’ll go to live [?]
You were under the veil, pretending to fail.
That’ll hold, but an empty time left to go,
Now you gotta fill it with something.
I know what you could do, but you won’t.
Anything is better than nothing,
Anything is better than nothing.

No acting action man gonna move in in my place,
I’ll be pumping out the product, just a total waste.

I’m here with my cup, afraid to look up;
This is how I spend my time
Racing around, hitting him down, [heading on down?]
But stuck inside my imagination,
Busy making something from nothing:
Pictures of holes (and depression),
Anything is better than nothing,
Anything is better than nothing.
Anything is better than nothing,
Anything is better than nothing.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1224

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29.

No Life

No life.
No life.
Everything you need
To keep it together,
To keep you off the street.
No life.
Once I used to see
A beautiful stranger
Walking next to me.

Sometimes it’s a long time coming
No life.
No life.
Still a part to learn
From offering nothing,
You get it in return.
No life.
Pushed away the hand*
If they might’ve found you.
You found some other man.

Remaining half of song Instrumental except for “Ahhhs.”


*A second vocal track seems to start this line off with the word "Closed", but it isn't completely clear, and the vocals can't be separated simply by listening to one speaker/side at a time.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8531#post8531

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30.

No More

Tired of looking sideways
With the things in black and white –
No more, no more.
Arguing my case
To the mean hounds of the night.
What for, what for, what for?

Put it in your face and let the petals fall,
Cursing your family name,
Rather being happy was because of it all, [just because of it all?]
Panicked and hateful, with nothing to blame.

That’s a useful dream
That pretended to explain,
No more, no more, no more.
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, aha, aha, aha; ah-ha-ha-ha-ha, aha, aha, aha.)

Superstition in the image of
One I already believe.
Easier to use ‘cause I made it up
To deal with the same things.
Tired of looking sideways
With the things in black and white.
What for, what for, what for?



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8532#post8532

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31.

Now You Wanna Show Me How

Burned out, still glowing, but I’m not worth knowing –
Some sick-ass story that follows you, becoming untrue.
Where bright tomorrows give you comfort and sorrow,
Go around taking back mistakes, just to remake them.

Now you wanna show me how you hate the side of me, oh why.
You know I’m not your lover now, and I will never be, that’s why.
Now you wanna show me how you hate the side of me, oh why.
You know I’m not your lover now, and I will never be.

When I hear your footsteps my lip slips, my feet trip.
Washed out small talk, that’s all I can do to interact with you
‘Cause no word of kindness puts the whole thing behind us.
Do you think that time would stop for me and you?
Do you think I could make it?

Now you wanna show me how you hate the side of me, oh why.
You know I’m not your lover now, and I will never be, that’s why.
Why you wanna show me how you hate the side of me, oh why.
You know I’m not your lover now, and I will never be.
Got rid of me, got rid of me, got rid of me.


Note: An earlier interpretation of the first line of the chorus was "Now you wanna show me how you hate the side of me I want." While this might actually be what Elliott wrote, it is not what he is singing in this studio track.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8533#post8533

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32.

Place Pigalle (aka Holiday)

Here’s the foreign son on holiday,
Meeting her eyes about halfway,
Look, you know it’s killed many men,*
And I’ve been all of them inside a week.
See, the man in the bar, he got too drunk to speak.

He endures that song, mundane as it is,**
And days in a dream that wasn’t his;
Nights about the top of the lift
When continents drift too far away
To keep it together for long, this half-holiday.

From the bar they walk to Place Pigalle.
A taxi wave-down, “Goodnight, sleep well.”
Now it’s just a step to the door
Where he wants all the more to take her away,
Out of this temporary half-holiday.

Lyrics from 6/7/99 performance in New York City.

Alternate lyrics suggested by other fans:
*Looking on, it’s killed many men
**He adores that song, mundane as it is



Discusssion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1229

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33.

Placeholder

Looking at all the rows,
All these records look like big zeros.
Got your picture on the back of a forty-five,
A placeholder ‘til you take up mine,
A placeholder ‘til you take up mine.

I’m the person you never need,
The biggest loser on 16th Street,
The invisible man with the see-through mind,
A placeholder ‘til you take up mine,
A placeholder ‘til you take up mine.

Break off of in someone’s loft in*
Mid-town ‘round there,
Next to the square.
He likes the way that you look, now,
Like an open book.

Just like my favorite song,
Some pretty words that didn’t last that long.
Like a package sent priority overnight,
Placeholder, come and take up mine,
Placeholder, come and take up mine
Placeholder, come and take up mine,
Placeholder, come and take up mine.


Possible alternate lyics:
*Break off of in someone’s laughter



Discussion thread: [/url]http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8541#post8541[/url]

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34.

Riot Coming

In Storyville, I fucked a cop
Amped up on prescription pills
That brought my heart to a stop.
And I wanna tell you there’s a riot coming,
Like a drug in the water –
A punch in the stomach makes
Sons into daughters.

I met a girl on the square
Who taught me how to kill my cares,
But once that’s done, man, there’s nothing to do –
Time’s running backwards for me and you.
There’s a riot coming
Like a drug in the water –
A punch in the stomach makes
Sons into daughters.
My body’s running, but I
Don’t see why it bothers.

Sat down in jail with this friend of mine
Who never closed both his eyes,
But one was shut all the time
To cover the thing he was scared of
While he watched with the other
There was a riot coming
Like a drug in the water –
A punch in the stomach makes
Sons into daughters.
There’s a riot coming,
There’s a riot coming,
There’s a riot coming.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8542#post8542

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35.

See You in Heaven

Instrumental

Note: Although this song was to have included lyrics, reports seem to indicate that Elliott never got around to recording them. Also, no live recording of this song has yet been found. Thus, barring some serendiptious discovery, this song is only available as an instrumental.

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OK, I'm still struggling with this one. I've tried listening to it with headphones and without, via my PC and via my stereo, and with the balance all the way left and all the way right. The first verse is the most difficult to pick out, but there's a part of the second verse that's hard too. Please help me out and give a listen -- maybe you can hear something that I couldn't.

36.

Seen How Things Are Hard

Took you to the train,
Stupid shit he was playing
Took pictures in my head.
You end up on a __ stairway,*
Have a little dress, you there, you just didn’t care,**
You’re all getting drunk instead.

Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
I love you, though.
Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
Well don’t you know?

You were scared of what you thought
Was a dizzy high,
But bring you down and forgot,
You stayed well away from
Trouble that you caused.
Using all your strength
To keep the world at an arm’s length
And not get upset
But the [simple ___?] post lost.***

Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
I love you, though.
Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
Well don’t you know?

I’m a crap reflection of you,
I can’t make corrections for you,
You have to help me patch things up.

Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
I love you, though.
Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
Well don’t you know?
Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
I love you, though.
Seen how things are hard,
Seen how things are hard –
Well don’t you know?
No?


Possible alternate lyrics:
*You end up liking a __ stairway OR You look like a skeleton
**Half a little dress - are you there? - you just didn’t care
***But the ___ ___ post lost (Seriously, those are the only bits I'm sure of.)



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8543#post8543

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37.

Silver Chain

Sonny boy wore a silver chain,
And he saw the tracks to the train – “Bye.”
Got a hat in my hand that fit my best to a “T,”
Broken easily.

I took the strip from the purple low
Where it’s too disturbing to go,
Holding the needle in my hand above the silk beneath,
Broken easily.

Where the trumpets blare, dissipate to air,
And I got praying hands a’hanging from a silver chain,
With a talent for catastrophe I can’t explain.
When I count the steps to safety
That I know will protect me –
The pain, it just doesn’t look*
Different to me.**


Lyrics from 1/14/98 performance in Portland; possibly incomplete.

Possible alternate lyrics:
*The pain, it just doesn’t work
**Deadly to me OR Did into me



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8563#post8563

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38.

Sorry My Mistake

A frozen tear melted here
To plug the man-made lake
I didn’t need to make.*
A drowning note fury wrote
That caused the earth to quake,
Confidence to shake,
Sorry my mistake.

The sun rose high
And went screaming by,
And the moon surveyed the scene,
Silent and serene.
While cops set cones
Around broken bones,
Saying “For heaven’s sake,
What an obvious mistake.”

Up came back down
While I was sewing up my stitch
And dreaming in the ditch
So sick of my sweet self
And everything I made.

A friendly flare, flash mid-air,
There was a twinkle in your eye,
A smoke signing in the sky,
And I fell deep in love, asleep,
Looking wide awake,
Like a wave that wouldn’t break,
Sorry my mistake.


Lyrics from __/__/__ performance in Portia. [When was this??]

*Alternate lyrics from 1998 performance in Sheffield:
A frozen tear melted here
Between the man-made lake
And the ice that wouldn’t break.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8564#post8564

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39.

Stained Glass Eyes

People sink your boat
When you cut a tragic figure.
They drink their lemonade
And throw you a line.

Boil your problem down
To "yes" or "no": “What’s the matter?”
They bomb your promenade,
And this makes it shine.

So you must play the comic,
If they want one,
And describe their moment
When they’re in one.

People pass you by
Passing up the chance to know you –
They’re irregular
In the usual way.

“You should crack a smile
once in awhile; it makes you pretty.”
It makes you wanna give
Them a piece of your mind.

But they can’t be people,
Not if I’m one.
If I have to be like them,
I’d rather be no one.

Couldn’t make the scene,
Not with all the people looking –
All these connoisseurs
On guard all the time.

Rather spend the day
Blank as hell, by the window,
Looking out of my
Stained glass eyes.

La la la la, la la la, la la la la la . . .



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8565#post8565

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40. a.

Stickman (version 1)

I sit here shooting blanks
Out at emptiness.
Ain’t nothing really wanna kill – * (real I?)
Maybe time, I guess.
I sit and spin the world on its flipside
And I listen backwards for meaning.

‘Cause I’m a stickman,
I live with one dimension dead.
Try not to think too many moves ahead.

I draw from memory
The stillest kind of life.
Slide after slide,
Mental pain’s the sharpest knife.
Project what’s done for everyone to see –
To me it’s just a reversal

And I’m a stickman
In frames that go one by one.
If I sped it up,
You’ll see I’m on the run
From some monster off-screen
Killing sons –
Lonely makes me blue
Envy turns me green.

Hate might paint me red
If I load my magazine,
But not just now when it’s easy to stay clean,
When no one sees where you’re bleeding.
And I’m a stickman,
Stickman.


40. b.

Stickman (version 2)

I sit here shooting blanks
Out at emptiness.
Ain’t nothing really wanna kill – *
Maybe time, I guess.
I sit and spin the world and its flipside,
And listen backwards for meaning.

‘Cause I’m a stickman,
I live with one dimension dead.
Try not to think too many moves ahead.

I draw from memory
The stillest kind of life.
Cut slide after slide,
Mental pain’s the sharpest knife.
Project what’s done so everything’s in phase –
To me there come a reversals.

And I’m a stickman
In frames that go one by one.
If I sped it up,
You’ll see I’m on the run
From some monster off-screen
Killing sons.

Lonely makes me blue,
Envy turns me green.
Hate might paint me red
If I load my magazine,
But not just now when it’s easy to stay clean,
And no one sees where I’m bleeding.
I’m a stickman in black,
And everything is clear.
Empty in fact,
But for a fact I’m here,
Loading my blanks
To make a silent sound.
Some make me smile
That make the cruel clown
Who drew me this way frown.


Possible alternate lyrics:
*Ain't nothing real I wanna kill



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38

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41.

Taking a Fall

Took it like medicine,
Horrible, in a hurry.
Lots of plans go awry,
Nothing’s wrong, I won’t worry.
But I rolled for a dollar on your advice,
And I lost you bad, ‘cause that’s the luck of the dice.

Taking a fall,
You don’t know who to call,
You don’t know who, do you.
Taking a fall.

Why do the neighbor’s kids
Have to scream when they’re playing?
You know I never can
Understand what you’re saying.
And you won’t hear a word out of me,
‘Cause I know how indifferent someone can be.

Taking a fall,
You don’t know who to call,
You don’t know who, do you.
Taking a fall,
When there’s someone to call,
But you don’t know who, do you.
Taking a fall,
But you don’t know who, do you.
Taking a fall,
Well, you don’t know who, do you.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8567#post8567

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42.

Talking to Mary

Talking to Mary,
You know you don’t have to shout.
She can hear what you’re thinking
Like you’re saying it right out loud.
It’s you she sees
Behind that dirty look.
It was her that followed down
Every stupid turn that you took.

One day she’ll go, I told you so.
One day she’ll go, I told you so.

Saw the one big problem
You keep under your hat,
And it’s pretty unlikely
That anybody else will be cool with that.
You got a bus fare in your pocket
And more money down in your sock,
But you can’t tell you how to find her
If you won’t listen to her talk.

One day she’ll go, I told you so.
One day she’ll go, I told you so.

It’s no problem,
I’ll just keep quiet
If it’s easier for you
To make believe then that
I don’t love you as much as I do.

One day she’ll go, I told you so.
One day she’ll go, I told you so.
I told you so; I told you so.


Lyrics from 3/31/95 performance in Ontario.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8568#post8568

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43.

Tiny Time Machine/Suicide Machine

Instrumental


Note: Suicide Machine is the version with lyrics, which has not been released or leaked.

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44.

True Love (aka True Love Is a Rose)

True love is a rose
Behind glass that’s locked and kept closed
Maybe just to me,
‘Cause my soul’s been attacked,
And shattered by tough love,
Bad love.

I bought mine off the street –
True love, man, it just can’t be beat.
I felt so complete,
Married to heavenly bodies above.
And each night I look up
At a bright honey moon.

‘Cause it sure seemed built to last,
Even after our honeymoon passed.
I kept right with it, man, like a ghost
To a house that was haunted.
Day after day,
I’d steal with my true love away
To some hide-out we’d left undisturbed –
We could do what we wanted.
But I started to feel like a liar,
Saying “I love you.”

Madly in love or mad mean,*
Now there’s no in-between,
It came on and on.
I found I can’t make a stand,
I’m her hired hand –
I have to do harm.

One day I got sick,
She played me a nasty old trick,
Said “I need cigarettes”
Walked ‘round the block,
And caught a cab.
Stayed gone for too long,
My love had gotten so strong –
Just to try to get back on my own,
I had to go to rehab.

All I need is a safe place to bleed –
Is this where it’s at?
Half of no chance,
Steps in a dance,
A life filled with combat.

Now I’m king of the ward,
‘Cause I’m good and I swallow my sword,
And puke it out
For the doctor to write a new prescription.
Tranquil as a dove,
People that have lost their true love
All seem to fit the same description:
I feel cold, useless, and old –
I wish I was no one.

Take me home, love no point,**
Take me home today.
Take me out of this place,
Take me home, please do it today.


Lyrics from 12/18/01 performance in San Francisco.

Possible alternate lyrics:
*Madly in love or mad me
**Take me home, __-__ __ __ I really wish I could pick those last 3 to 4 syllables out with some authority, but I've played it so many times now that I'm not hearing English there anymore.




Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8570#post8570

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45.

Unlucky Charm

My flower would not unfold
Always waiting for some sunnier day,
Quiet and patient
But afraid and hidden away.
When the awful truth’s been told,
Matter of fact, and I can’t take it back
And I wouldn’t want to,
Or at least that’s what I say.

Will you come out now?
Now that it’s too late for me to be in on the scene –
I hurt you bad, but you know you’re a dream.

Do you want success? Oh yeah.
Through somebody else? Oh, no no no no.
So go start over;
Spend time since you have to do.
Do you got your own thing? Yeah.
What d’you want to do for now?
Stop taking everything back;
It confronts you just lying down.

Will you come out now?
Who would you do it for, unlucky charm?
Beautiful collapsing star –
Who would it be?
Why wasn’t it me?
La . . .


Lyrics from 5/15/97 performance in Portland.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...=8571#post8571

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

46.

Untitled (aka Track 16, Sticks and Stones, Keep Confusion Away)

Wiped out in the city slick,
Another sick rock n' roller acting like a dick
Wielding cash,*
Burning through the trash that piles up in this place
And fills up behind my empty face,
Full of things that I’m not to do.

You come over with all of your friends and
All their opinions I don't wanna know,
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away with nowhere to go.

I run down to the corner lot.
It's 45 past 2, I almost forgot to show.
I got a date to make with mister so-and-so,
After which
I won’t care when you all start to bitch
And moan about being alone.

You come over with all of your friends and
All their opinions I don't wanna know,
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away with nowhere to go.

Can't you just leave me alone?
You've already thrown all the sticks and stones
You had to send my way.
Can't you just leave it at that?
And spare us both the bother
’Cause I just bounce back, anyway.

I got nothing that I want to do
More than make another sonic fuck you to play**
Whenever you make my life cliché
So to fit
In some little box with the lame bullshit
You say to keep confusion away.

You come over with all of your friends and
All their opinions I don't wanna know,
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away with nowhere to go.

You come over with all of your friends and
All their opinions I don't wanna know,
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away.


Possible alternate lyrics:
*We don’t catch OR With cash
**More than make another song and, fuck you, to play OR More than make another sonnet fuck you to play



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

47.

Untitled Instrumental – Basement

Instrumental recorded during Basement sessions

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

48.

Untitled Instrumental – Satyricon

Instrumental recorded live at Satyricon in Portland, OR on 10-14-99*


*Note: I still need to confirm that this differs from other songs, untitled or otherwise.

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

49.

Untitled Instrumental – Showbox

Instrumental recorded live at Showbox in Seattle, WA on 2-23-99


*Note: I still need to confirm that this differs from other songs, untitled or otherwise.

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

50.

Whatever (Some Folk Song in C) (aka Hanging Out with Me)

They come here alone and they leave in twos,
Except for you and me who just came to use.
If you’re all done like you said you’d be,
What are you doing hanging out with me?

Why d’you tell me stuff that’s so plainly untrue?
If you’ll be straight with me, I’ll be straighter with you.
If you’re all done like you said you’d be,
What are you doing hanging out with me?

I haven’t wanted to do anything for a long time,
But whatever you got right now would probably suit me fine.
If you’re all done like you said you’d be,
What are you doing hanging out with me?

I haven’t wanted to do anything for a long time,
Whatever you’re doing now would probably suit me fine.
If you’re all done like you said you’d be,
What are you doing hanging out with me?
What are you doing hanging out with me?



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1162

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

51.

The Worst Part Is Almost Over

You think I'm unkind,
But people aren't the way you think they are –
They can't remember all the time
What it was you wanted.
They paint you out in straight silhouette.
Don't you get the picture yet?
Why you getting all upset?
The worst part’s almost over.

Three's such a crowd –
You oughtta tell me what you tell yourself.
You ever gonna speak it aloud?
Do I have to guess like everyone else?
With an iron will to walk the walk,
And a glass jaw that can't be moved to talk –
Black eyes always watch the clock.
The worst part's almost over.

You let yourself be frozen by a doubt.
You think I'm mean ‘cause I call you out.
You don't know what you're about –
The worst part's almost over now,
The worst part's almost over now, now, now.



Discussion thread: http://www.trashtreasury.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1196

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

52.

Yay!

Instrumental


Note: This is an unleaked “noise” song reportedly recorded during the Basement sessions.

[Elliott Smith Lyrics]

53.

You Make It Seem like Nothing (aka Come to Me)

I’m not used to coming through,
More accustomed to a falling out.
I’m trying hard now as I can for you
Not to trip up on some stupid doubt.*
You’ve got your hopes set way up high,
Way on up there where the air is thin –
The limit’s supposed to be the sky.
I’m trying not to let you down again.

It’s starting to come to me.
I didn’t know about; I hadn’t figured it out,
But it’s starting to come to me now,
A little bit too late.

I can’t see anything you’ve done,
Any reason for the trouble you’ve got.
You haven’t hurt anyone.
Compared to most that’s saying quite a lot.**
I can’t help you when you’re sad –
That’s a constant source of pain to me,
Because I want to really bad
Even though you make it seem like nothing.

It’s starting to come to me.
I didn’t know about; I hadn’t figured it out,
But it’s starting to come to me now,
A little bit too late.


Lyrics from __/__/97 performance in ______. (I need to know date and location!)

Lyric variations from the 1/12/03 performance:
*Not to fuck up on some stupid doubt.
**Compared to most I’d say that’s saying quite a lot.



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