Song Guide

Below is a listing of every known song that Elliott Smith contributed to - whether singing, writing, producing, recording, engineering, or performing in some fashion. Click a song to find out what type of song it is, the author, which recording session it originates from, whether it is released or unreleased, lyrics for the song, and streaming audio.

Note - There are many versions of some songs that appear with alternate titles, others do not. Our criteria is that if Elliott ever released a song to the public either on cassette (even though those are no longer widely circulating) or as part of an album that was released (regardless of whether it was before or after his death), it gets its own separate entry even if a “later” version was created with a different title/sound. If the song was unofficially released but has different versions from different eras, only one entry will be used. 

For our guide to the music of Stranger Than Fiction, A Murder of Crows, and Harum Scarum, please click here.

The color indicates the era/type of song, as follows:

#37
11:37 Passing
2:45 AM *
A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free *
A Fond Farewell *
A Living Will *
A Passing Feeling *
A Question Mark *
A Silver Chain *
Abandoned Neil Gust Heatmiser Song
Abused *
Alameda *
All Cleaned Out *
All Cleaned Out (other version)
All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down * 
All the Same *
Almost Over *
Alphabet Town *
Amity *
Anatomy
Ancient Fable
Angel in the Snow *
Angeles *
Another Letter
Antonio Carlos Jobim *
Asleep *
Baby Britain *
Back Seat John
Bald Faced Lie
Ballad of a Thin Man *
Ballad of Big Nothing *
Barriers
Bastard John *
Begin the Begin
Because *
Between the Bars *
Big Decision *
Big Sky *
Birthday Boy *
Black Jack Davy *
Blackbird *
Blackout *
Bled White *
Blind Alley
Blockhead *
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain *
Blue Highway *
Blue Mood *
Bottle Rocket *
Bottle Up and Explode! *
Brand New Game *
Brian’s Pain *
Buick *
Burned Out, Still Glowing *
Busted Lip *
Bye *
Can’t Be Touched *
Can’t Make a Sound *
Candyland *
Cannibal *
Car *
Care of Cell 44 *
Carl’s El Camino
Carry On Wayward Son *
Catholic *
Cecilia/Amanda *
Chance
Chelsea Girls *
Chemistry
Chinatown
Christian Brothers *
Clark Bar
Clementine *
Closer to the Heart *
Clouds *
Coast to Coast *
Collect to NYC *
Color Bars *
Come Back Jonee *
Coming Up Roses *
Concrete Jungle *
Condor Ave.*
Condor Avenue *
Confidence Artist *
Confusion *
Coraliza *
Crazy Fucker *
Crazy Heart *
Critical Mass *
Cruel Reminder *
Cupid’s Trick *
Cypress
Daddy’s Little Princess *
Dancing on the Highway *
Dead Air *
Dead End Street *
Dear Eunice
Dear Prudence
Dirt *
Dirty Dream *
Disappearing Ink *
Division Day *
Do It Again *
Don’t Call Me Billy *
Don’t Fear the Reaper *
Don’t Give It Up
Don’t Go Down *
Don’t Look Down *
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right *
Dream Flowers *
Drive All Over Town *
Eagle Eye *
Easy Way Out *
Echo Park
Egypt
Either/Or *
ELK
Empty Words *
Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands *
Everybody Has It *
Everything Means Nothing to Me *
Everything Reminds Me of Her *
Everything’s Okay *
Expectation
Fast Food *
Father Song *
Fear City *
Few Laps a Fruit Cup and a Funeral 
Fifteen Minutes
Figure 8 *
Fine to See You *
First Timer *
Flame! *
Flowers for Charlie *
For No One *
For No One Else *
Fortune 500 *
Freedom of Choice *
Freedom of Expression
Friends *
From a Poison Well *
Georgia, Georgia *
Get Lucky *
Gimme Gimme Teenage Head
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) *
Glamourine
Glass Onion
Go By *
Going Nowhere *
Golden Street *
Good to Go *
Gotta Problem *
Grand Mal *
Great Serpent Reprise
Half Right *
Halfway to Forever (Autumn Signs)
Hamburgers *
Happiness *
Harvest Moon *
He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot *
Hell Below/Stars Above *
Here Comes Flash *
Hey Jude
High Times *
Hitting on the Waiter *
Hooray for Tuesday *
How to Take a Fall *
How’s My Drinking? *
I Better Be Quiet Now *
I Can’t Answer You Anymore *
I Didn’t Understand *
I Don’t Give a Fuck
I Don’t Think I’m Ever Gonna Figure It Out *
I Figured You Out *
I Love My Room *
I Me Mine *
I Wish I Could Not Say I Wish
I’ll Be Back *
I’m Gonna Get Crushed *
I’m Only Sleeping *
I’m Over It Now  *
I’m So Tired *
I’mNotOutOfBreathAnymore
Idler *
If You Want My Love
In the Light
In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach) *
Independence Day *
Inspector Detector
Instinctual Disjunction
Instrumental (2-23-1999) *
Instrumental (10-14-1999) *
Instrumental (Hidden Track) *
Instrumental (Waltz) *
Instrumental #1 (November/December 1983) *
Instrumental #2 (November/December 1983)
Instrumental #3 (November/December 1983)
Isn’t It a Pity *
Isolation
It Was a Sunny Day
It’s Alright
It’s Not a Prop *
Jealous Guy *
Johnny B. Goode
Joy to the World *
Jump Across the Mountain *
Junior Mint *
Junk Bond Trader *
Just a Little Prick *
Key Biscayne *
Kill/Fuck *
Killer *
King of Clubs *
King’s Crossing *
Kiwi Maddog 20/20 *
LA *
Last Boat Leaving *
Last Call *
Laughter
Let’s Get Lost *
Let’s Turn the Record Over *
Like A Cop *
Little Caesars
Little Maggie *
Little Miss Sally (and her evening meditation)
Little One *
Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)
Living in Rotational
Long, Long, Long *
Looking At My Watch
Looking Over My Shoulder *
Lost Highway *
Low-Flying Jets *
Lowlife *
Madding *
Mama’s Boy 
Maritime Blue
Mayan *
Meet Me in the City *
Melodic Noise *
Memorandum
Memory Lane *
Mightier Than You *
Misery Let Me Down *
Miss Misery *
Mock-Up *
Moonshiner *
Mr. Goodmorning *
Mr. Goodmorning (version 2) *
Mrs. Kennedy
My New Freedom *
My Sweet Lord *
Needle in the Hay *
Never Felt Better (Demo) *
New Disaster *
New Monkey *
Nightcap *
Nighttime *
No Confidence Man *
No Life *
No More *
No Name #1 *
No Name #2 *
No Name #3 *
No Name #4 *
No Name #5 *
No Name #6 *
Not Ready Yet *
Nothing to do With You
O So Slow *
Ocean *
Oh, Sister *
Oh Well, Okay *
Our Thing *
Out On the Weekend *
Outward Bound *
Paint it Black *
Parked Car Homestead *
Parting Kiss (Demo) *
Pbida
Piano Thing
Pictures of Me *
Pink Noise/White Noise
Pitseleh *
Place Pigalle *
Placeholder *
Plainclothes Man *
Poem #1 *
Poem #2 *
Poem #3 
Pop in G *
Pour White *
Practicing Your Moves (Demo) *
Prelude Op3 #2 in C Sharp Minor *
Pretty (Ugly Before) *
Pretty Mary K *
Pretty Mary K (other version) *
Prom Date
Pull Me Through
Punch and Judy *
Punch and Judy (other version) *
Rain *
Rest My Head Against the Wall *
Revolution *
Riot Coming *
Rock #1
Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide
Roman Candle *
Rose Parade *
Rougher *
San Diego *
Sands Hotel *
Satellite *
Say I Do
Say Yes *
See You in Heaven *
See You Later *
Seen How Things Are Hard *
September Gurls *
Set Me Free *
Shake Sugaree *
She Won’t Ever Look at Me *
Shiva Opens Her Arms *
Shooting Star *
Shotgun *
Shytown *
Single File *
Skills Like This *
Slapstick 
Sleeping Pill *
Small Talk
So Long
Some (Rock) Song *
Some Song *
Somebody That I Used to Know *
Something *
Something to Lose *
Son of Sam *
Song to the Great Serpent
Sophistry
Sorry My Mistake *
Soul Cake
Sound to Me
Southern Belle *
Space Oddity
Speed Trials *
Splitzville *
St. Ides Heaven *
Stained Glass Eyes *
Stairway to Heaven *
Stickman *
Still *
Stray *
Stroke it Noel *
Strung Out Again *
Stupidity Tries *
Subdivisions
Suicide Machine *
Suit of Running Water *
Summertime *
Supersonic *
Sweet Adeline *
Take a Fall *
Taking a Fall *
Talking to Mary *
Tangerine Dream *
Temper *
Tequila
The Biggest Lie *
The Corner Seat *
The Crystal Ball
The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize *
The Dicks on D-3
The Enemy Is You *
The Fix Is In *
The Gondola Man *
The Loneliest of Faces *
The Machine *
The Party
The Poisoned Well *
The Real Estate *
The Real Thing
The Roller Coaster to Hell
The Roost *
The Last Hour *
The Vatican Rock
The White Lady Loves You More *
Theme from “Rocky”
These Days *
They’ll Never Take Her Love from Me *
Third and South *
Thirteen *
This Bed
Three *
Till the End of the Day
Time is Ours Now
Tiny Time Machine *
To Build a Home
Tom Waits and the Attack of the Crab Monster *
Tomorrow Tomorrow *
Tore Up and Broke *
Trap Door *
Trouble (Cat Stevens cover) *
Trouble (Jon Brion cover)
True Believer
True Love *
Trying to Find My Shadow
Tunnel Vision
Twilight *
Two Timed *
Uncertainty
Uncontrollable Urge *
Under a Cloud *
Unfinished Song *
Unknown (Instrumental) *
Unknown Fragment *
Unknown Song (Instrumental) *
Unknown Song 11-21-92 #1 *
Unknown Song 11-21-92 #2 *
Unknown Song 11-21-92 #3 *
Unknown Uncle Tupelo Song
Unlucky Charm *
Untitled Guitar Finger Picking *
Untitled Melancholy Song *
Untitled Soft Song in F *
Untitled Song in G
Untitled Song with Lyrics #1
Untitled Song with Lyrics #2
Untitled Song with Lyrics #3
Untitled Song with Lyrics #4
Untitled Song with Lyrics #5
Untitled Song with Lyrics #6
Untitled Song with Lyrics #7
Untitled Song with Lyrics #8
Untitled Song with Lyrics #9
Untitled Voicemail Audio Experiment *
Wake *
Waiting for the End of the World *
Walk Away Renee *
Waltz #1 *
Waltz #2 (XO) *
Wandering
Watch the Worlds Collide *
Waterloo Sunset *
We’re All Friends Now *
Whatever (Some Folk Song in C) *
When I Paint My Masterpiece *
Where I Get It From *
Whispering Pines *
White Room
Who’s Behind the Door *
Why Did I Decide to Stay? *
Wind Through My Life
Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud? *
Yay! *
Yer Blues *
You Gotta Move *
You Make It Seem Like Nothing *