Status

Heatmiser song

Written By

Elliott Smith

Recording Sessions

January-June 1994 (Musicraft Studio, Wilsonville, OR; and Nightcap Studios (aka Heatmiser House) and White Horse Studios, Portland, OR - Heatmiser - Cop & Speeder - 3 sessions)

Availability of Official Release

Cop & Speeder

Lyrics

You’re a silence on the phone
You’re a song with just one fucking note
And I’m clued-out cole
Like an off-color joke
When I call collect to NYC
Everybody learns eventually
To go hang it up
You go hang it up
It’s really really easy

Yeah, I put your letter down
But this graffiti finds it’s way around
I want to talk
Why you want to stop?
It’s impossible for me

So here’s my trick: when I hear your “hello”
I know I’m listening to alcohol
Oh, I’m drunk on a call

I heard you found some other guy
Some high note you thought I couldn’t hit
But I never tried
No, I never did

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