| Elliott Smith – Waltz #2 Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think "you're no good, you're no good you're no good you're no good" refers to the song "You're No Good." I don't know who the first artist to perform this was, by I'm guessing the oldest version might be Linda Ronstadt's (see at http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/y/you_re_no_good_linda_ronstadt.html). This ties in well with "singing cathy's clown", so either the narrator or the person he's addressing is singing these two songs. |
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| Elliott Smith – The White Lady Loves You More Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is clearly about being in love with a woman who's hooked on cocaine ("the white lady"). "Metal" is a slang term I'm unfamiliar with, though, but it's a fair bet it's about drugs. | |
| Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Some notes: --- gonna walk walk walk four more blocks plus the one in my BRAIN down downstairs to the man --- Note the correction. Also, I think Smith enjoys punning or using multiple meanings in his lyrics. I think "sometimes they just get caught in the eye/you're pulling him through" is punning on how a thread passes through the eye of a needle and is pulled through. As to what else he's saying, I'm not sure, perhaps the female (if she's the needle) got either the narrator (in the third person) or the other man hooked on heroin? I can't figure out if there are two or one males in this narrative. |
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