Strung Out Again
Status
Elliott Smith Song
Written By
Elliott Smith
Recording Sessions
2000 (Unknown location - LP6 Early Recordings) - uncirculating
May 2001 - Spring 2002 (Satellite Park Studios, Malibu, CA - McConnell Sessions)
Availability of Official Release
From a Basement on the Hill
Lyrics
You get what you see
I saw a rich fuck giving charity
Saw an evil emperor
Wearing my clothes
They’re far from the best
But they might suit you better than the rest
Just looking in the mirror
Will make you a brave man
I know my place
Hate my face
I know how I begin
And how I’ll end
Strung out again
Was a parliament of owls
Fly over a city of canals
Floating on the body
Floating in the Dalles
You get what you see
But some things they just change invisibly
I don’t know where I’m going
And I don’t even want to know
They’re far from the best
But they might suit you better than the rest
Just looking in the mirror
Will make you a brave man
Standing, smiling
On some fantasy island
Looking at my lost reflection again
But a tide’s coming in
And I’m strung out again
Strung out again
2000 live version lyrics (thanks to snowballinhell)
you get what you see
you’re sad that you saw me completely
i thought you were looking through me
and now i’ll never know
i don’t look my best
but i might suit you better than the rest
if everything was surface
i’d be a brave man
i’d stand still burning
light up learning
but now i’m just trying to salve my candles in
struck down again
there’s a parliament of owls
flying over a city of canals
people taking pictures
of our star shooting down
you get what you see
some things they just change invisibly
i don’t know where i’m going
i don’t even want to know
stand still burning
light up learning
waiting for this evil spell to end
struck down again
sailing oceans
sick from motion
thinking of the times you reeled me in
strung out again
strung out again
strung out again..
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