Elliott Smith – Sons Into Daughters

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In Storyville that fucked up cop
Hipped on prescription pills
That brought my heart to a stop
I want to tell you
There's a riot coming
Like a drug in the water
A punch in the stomach
Makes sons into daughters
I met a girl on the square
Who taught me how to kill my cares
Once that’s done, man, there's nothing to do
Time's running backwards for me and you
There's a riot coming
Like a drug in the water
A punch in the stomach
Makes sons into daughters
My body's running but I don't see why it bothers
Sent down to jail with this friend of mine
Who wouldn't close both eyes
But kept one shut all the time
To cover the thing he was scared of
While he watched with the other
There was a riot coming
Like a drug in the water
A punch in the stomach
Makes sons into daughters
There’s a riot coming
There’s a riot coming
There’s a riot coming

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    General Comment:"Drug in the water" is how a riot can be spread like wildfire or like drugs mixed in a municipality water supply. Anyone who takes a sip will be crazed. The government/authority controls that part of our lives. Its a reflection of why people riot, they get pissed at the way the authority treats/controls them especially when its an everyday personal aspect of your life like drinking tab water.
    Flag Brenguyon November 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"In storyville i fucked a cop, amped up on prescription pills "

    Yeah, that's what I got, too.
    Flag DrewJohnsonon February 06, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:In storyville i fucked a cop, amped up on prescription pills
    Flag Peekajew805on November 10, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:it's called riot coming on new moon, but the version i had before was sons into daughters.
    i like sons into daughters better as a title, actually.

    but this is a great song either way.
    Flag musicalchairson May 22, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:heatherleanne i have all the basement II demos and this song IS called "Sons Into Daughters" it took me quite a while to find the song on here...
    Flag jboon March 11, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I downloaded both Riot Coming and Sons into Daughters from elliottsmithbsides.com and its the same thing...so who knows what this song is actually called?

    anyway, I always hear it as "amped up on prescription pills" (probably because someone wrote that on the figure 8 wall) on the studio version, but hipped up makes more sense, I guess...
    Flag rollercoastersonjaon January 14, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Fuck. I mean *SONS Into Daughters..

    It's 2:22am.
    Flag heatherleanneon August 16, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This song is supposed to be called 'Songs Into Daughters'
    Flag heatherleanneon August 16, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Of course when he does use the cops as a reference he uses them to represent order much as he uses the army to represent authority. "I'm a policeman directing traffic keeping everything moving and everything static." This use would contrast well with the fact that there is a "riot coming." I actually like to think of him as a fucked up traffic director sending everybody in the wrong direction. Good shit.
    Flag thagunkon February 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Yeah I know Elliott changes his lyrics a lot. But I always heard "In storyville, I fuck to cop. And I'm on prescription pills." That always made a lot more sense to me. #1 because much of his persona was based on excessive drug use which was actually usually only metaphor. #2 it makes more sense with the song to me. Although he does change perspective a lot in his songs from 1st to 3rd person and back again and changing tenses. #3 plus "copping" is a recurring theme for him. Cops are also a reccuring theme: "She took the oldsmobile...the cops were running around the scene..." "Always fears cities finest follow right behind." But to me the other way just makes more sense. Any thoughts?
    Flag thagunkon February 28, 2006   Link

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