Elliott Smith – Twilight (Somebody's Baby)

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  General Comment:I just moved to college and whenever I start getting really lonely and miss my home I pretend he wrote this about me even though that's ridiculous in every way

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  General Comment:him and his girl has a relationship based on heroin. he got clean and she couldn't. he wrote this song about the night she locked herself in the bathroom and ODed while he was in the other room.

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  General Comment:this is a devastatingly beautifully painful song to me.

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  General Comment:Such a beautiful song. His voice is so amazing. I love this song. I definitly see this song as a realtionship song. That this song is about someone in love with someone else but they already have a lover/"baby". It's definitly like someone mentions a call/response song. It's how I've always taken it.

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  General Comment:I "dated" a junkie and this song really resonates with me... You can never truly date an addict... You will always come second in their life... Even when they're "in" a relationship with you, they're never really there. Sure, there were good times. But looking back, its more like a few smiles and laughs lost in a sea of depression. Those few fleeting moments when you can pretend to be "normal"; pretend not have problems; pretend not to wake up every morning so sick from withdrawals that you want to die... Have you ever seen someone detox from heroin? Waking up every morning wanting to die? Doing whatever it takes to just "not get sick"?
  
  To me, "twilight" means being caught somewhere in between... the feeling that you know you're about to come down from being high... that you are happy in this moment, but you know it's going to end... Being caught between wanting to function like a normal person in a healthy, loving relationship but understanding that your addiction is your life... That deep down in your guy, no matter how many times you try, you won't be able to get clean. Heroin - it's my wife and it's my life...
  
  This song remind me of the way my ex-boyfriend used to look at me in the morning when we woke up next to each other... Big, blue puppy dog eyes.. Something so sad and desperate... He never wanted to leave... He was safe and happy in that moment... with me... lying tangled in each others arms... holding on to me so tight, scared to be alone... holding out for as long as he could till he could no longer handle the withdrawal pains.. till the pain became intolerable...
  
  Then, he would rise from the warmth and comfort of my cozy bed... to go face the cold reality of the world... to go score...
  
  The illusion was crushed - he was a junkie. He could pretend we were happy. That our relationship was real. But it was just a distraction... a distraction from the cold, cruel truth: He no longer had control of his life. He could no longer function. His addiction had taken over his life and it was stronger than him.

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    You just used this as an excuse to rant on about some shitty boyfriend you had, well, boo hoo, now piss off.
    
    I'm so sick of this, all of you people, go to the other songs of Elliott on this site, have a look at majority of the comments, 99% of people that have commented on Elliott's songs seem to think that ALL he EVER sings about is drugs and his addiction, YOU'RE FUCKING MORONS and I feel such pity on you, you clearly have no respect whatsoever for Elliott, and you have no idea the type of person he was, it disgusts me that you are even capable of hearing his music, you don't deserve it. Claiming even the most personal of his songs is about just drugs. Fuck, I do drugs too, copious amounts, for years, and I've written many songs, hundreds, but I can honestly say only about 4 or maybe 5 are just about drugs or their effects. You really think Elliott was sitting there shooting up, thinking of songs to write about shooting up? HE DIDN'T "LIKE" THAT HE WAS ADDICTED, he didn't advertise it all over the place, he wouldn't fucking sing about it in EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS SONGS.

    Flagged JimiCobainon December 21, 2010  
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  General Comment:I just think this song is about how he knows hes a junkie and he'll never quit. Its sad. This album was very sad. He was an amazing lyricist and songwriter. Some people on here i think are digging too deep. most of the time the music comes first and a melody. no real words. You touch on what happening in your life. Chances are he probably was high when he wrote this and just bummed. I know when i take suboxone i get that creative urge to want to start playing my guitar and write music. This song makes me cry. RIP ES

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    You are an incredibly sad excuse for a waste of space. You are so excruciatingly naive. He doesn't just sing about drugs, fuckhead, get your head out of your ass.

    Flagged JimiCobainon December 21, 2010  

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    I don't know who you think you are "JimiCobain", but I'm beyond tired of your rude, pretentious comments. These are people's interpretations, and since you know so, so much about Elliott Smith you should know he said many times in his life he likes to leave his songs open for interpretation, so whether or not this song is about drugs is not only up to the writer, but up to the listener as well. Oh, one more thing, he does in fact have a lot of drug-influenced songs, if not all of them, and if you want to argue with me you'd be trying to make him something he wasn't and thats just simple ignorant bliss, as long as you think that Elliott wasn't controlled by heroin he'll be "god-like" to you and you obviously revel in that idea. At the end of the day no one knows what exactly his songs were about, you know why? Because he's dead and you were never his friend in his life, so you have no insight on this man, and you never will. You know his lyrics' true meaning no more than we do, so stop harrassing fellow Elliott fans. Don't be "that guy who thinks he was there when these songs were written, but he never even met the artist."

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  General Comment:I just think this song is about how he knows hes a junkie and he'll never quit. Its sad. This album was very sad. He was an amazing lyricist and songwriter. Some people on here i think are digging too deep. most of the time the music comes first and a melody. no real words. You touch on what happening in your life. Chances are he probably was high when he wrote this and just bummed. I know when i take suboxone i get that creative urge to want to start playing my guitar and write music. This song makes me cry. RIP ES

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  General Comment:He's in some relationhip with a girl who loves him alot but hes also in a relationship with the drugs,because he's already somebodys baby.

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    You're a colossal moron, this song is not about drugs, you clearly know nothing about Elliott. Go hang yourself.

    Flagged JimiCobainon December 21, 2010  
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  General Comment:It doesn't get more blatant than 'those drugs you got won't make you feel better' , the 'somebody' is no doubt his addiction.
  'Haven't laughed this hard in a long time...' - its heartbreaking to see how he wanted so badly for this person to be a reason to stop using, to stay alive etc.
  As beautiful as the song is, the resignation in his voice and the things he says is the sound of the final nail being hammered into his coffin
  Line for line, this has to be one of the saddest songs of all time.

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    CONGRATULATIONS, you got one thing right in that whole comment, that this song is one of the saddest. But what's even sadder is that you and so many others think close to every song by Elliott is about drugs or his addiction, if you truly think that, you can't have much fucking respect for his intelligence, you don't think he was more philosophically insightful then that? He was quite proficient in metaphors, and quite wise, don't underestimate him by thinking he's singing about something as small and trivial as drugs. Open your mind up a bit.
    
    And who's to say all of his songs are personally about him, any number of them could be written as the perspective of somebody else.
    
    This song is about many things, drugs is not one of them.

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  General Comment:Never fails to make me cry.

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