Elliott Smith – Bye

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Send "Bye" Ringtone to Cell


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Track duration: 01:53


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    General Comment:I listen to this song over and over and over.
    Beautiful, Haunting, I can feel it all.

    Love you Elliott Always.
    Flag SallySunshineon February 28, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Sounds like the music when I'm walking in the mall.
    Flag KetAnthonyon November 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Wonderful, Elliott, just wonderful.
    Flag benfreckleon October 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song was used, though I believe it had a slight variation, in a film titled "Southlander."(it was named Snowbunny's Serenade in the film). I think I remember the scene as being pretty weird, like someone playing this on piano while someone else is doing cocaine/slow dancing. Anyway, Elliott also makes an adorable cameo in the movie as a bus driver, if anybody is interested.

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    admittedly, if you haven't seen the rest of the movie, the beginning of this clip will seem very strange to you!
    Flag newdisasteron October 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Or maybe a person riding away in a carrage from something that they love looking through the back.
    Flag HIhihion September 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I see a ballerina in a jewerly box spinning in circles and then breaking at the end of the song.
    Flag HIhihion September 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:this song shows the beauty of fear, of lonely death.
    Flag shindelinson August 18, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song is so difficult on piano.
    I picture it being played on an old piano covered in spiderwebs in an attic and you can see the dust floating in the air when the light catches it and you can't hear it properly because it's being played by a ghost.
    Flag stayclosetomeon June 18, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song feels like how I do most of the time. Especially in high school. I would move around the crowded hallways between classes and whenever I got to a door I would never need to open it because there was always just enough room for me to squeeze through because of all the bodies. So since this has such a ghostly feel to it I walk around the mall pretending to be a ghost and purposely make eye contact with people because they immediately look away again most of the time. Its like making a movie out of life and using the music to make a soundtrack to it.
    Flag Blackmofasa9on January 11, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with so many of you; it scares the shit out of me but I love it.
    It's such a hauntingly creepy piece, but at the same time I can really see the beauty in it. I also picture it like bubbamoo, the piano with no one playing.
    Flag samsambamalamon December 20, 2008   Link

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