Status
Stranger Than Fiction song
Alternate Version/Title
Written By
Garrick Duckler (lyrics)
Elliott Smith (music)
Jason Hornick (music)
Recording Sessions
September 14, 1986 (Rainbow Recording, Portland, OR - Stranger Than Fiction - Waiting for the Second Hand) - uncirculating
Availability of Official Release
N/A
Lyrics (partial, based on clip)
My teacher thinks I’m masochistic
And I have a memory like lipstick
My friends think I’m too didactic
Some believe my mind’s a prophylactic
My memory thinks I’m infantile
My life is I’m slaying in and out of style
People think I’m an egotist
And a few synonyms which I could not list
And I tell people they’re too paranoid
But it’s really me who is a toy
People think I could drink reality
Others don’t think I got a lick of normality
I don’t know why you should care so much
My eyes leave such a heavy touch
Seem to make some decision
But I could never handle your derision
This cheap (??) this far
Tight neighbor (??)
It’s a lover for a sly sailor
My fear is rhetoric
Linguistically
Because I’m too posey
They save me
I’d assent except
We are inept at thinking
Kind of peers judgmentally
Audio
(Clip 1 - lower quality but more complete)
(Clip 2 - higher quality but less complete)