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Steven Paul Smith was born on August 6, 1969 to Bunny and Gary Smith, who were then living in Omaha, Nebraska. About a year later Elliott's parents decided to divorce. Bunny moved to Texas, taking with her Elliott, who was raised in the Duncanville area (near Dallas). Asked about his earliest memory, he once replied: "Playing on a gravel embankment next to a highway in Dallas. I found a turtle, picked him up and he peed on my hand." Technology was a challenge to which he rose at an early age. "My first memory," he recalled on another occasion, "is of breaking the TV by repeatedly flicking the volume and turning the set on and off. I was three. It was the first piece of electronic equipment I was ever allowed to operate. The first day I was, I broke it." He added More... (Submit New Elliott Smith Lyrics) (Submit New Elliott Smith Lyrics) Review about Elliott Smith my own interpretation... | Reviewer: Tim McGraw ------ About the song Amity performed by Elliott Smith My favorite songs seem to make suffering more beautiful because they are written in ways that illuminate upon very specific and varied kinds of suffering. My absolute theory about this song is that perhaps elliott or someone he knew was in love with this Amity character who stayed open all night..like a neon sign. This Amity character walking like a lucky charm and elsewhere on XO seems to be looking for potential customers rather than maybe what elliott might have wanted..real love which is a huge blow to someone who grew up with crazy family relationships...desperately craving real romantic love. Either he figured this out right away and tried to love the person anyway or he slowly realized it. If I remember correctly some of the photos of XO were from the american (neon) sign museum in cincinnatti ohio. My theory is that this Amity character could possibly be a Tristessa type lover...ala Jack Kerouac This word amity means a gesture of goodwill or friendship such as international goodwill....so good to the many different "cultures"... then again who knows... all about his mother | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Waltz #2 (XO) performed by Elliott Smith I think this song is all about his mother. It seems like he's implying his mom's married to some new dude "That's the man she's married to now" and his mom is the girl he takes around town, who's singing the song "Cathy's Clown.' Then she's done singing, and they call someone else -- such a familiar name -- calling him to sing. He's saying he's doing fine but the people in the crowd are yelling "he's no good' at singing. Then he's implying his mom notices he's having a hard time, and he's saying he's trying but he's tired. XO, MOM, is saying he's doing it all for her, and for her not to worry, but to tell his stepdad to f-off and leave him alone, because here at karaoke, at least he's feeling capable. He's never going to figure his mother out, but he loves her anyway. just comenting | Reviewer: anonymas ------ About the song Needle In The Hay performed by Elliott Smith For a long time i was into cutting myself and i can honestly say its better than heroin. The stigma that is comes with cutting is one of simpathy but on the other hand being so self conscious it brings way to much attention to your self. Any how heroin is a lot more disguisable and the feeling is about nine tenths that of cutting but neither is a good choice. The song brought me back and a really good reminder of just how far I've come and I'm still addicted to opiates ( opana,diluadid). Every time i listen to the song it makes me remember reality and dreams the two are pretty similar for me and i love it.The song is great. weird me out, dude | Reviewer: Jason ------ About the song Needle In The Hay performed by Elliott Smith It is oddly transgressive to listen to a dead boy's intimate suicidal rantings. It feels like I'm in a back alley in Bangkok watching somebody cut his own throat for my entertainment. Very like Townes Van Zandt's NOTHING. Nice place to visit if you're feeling too good about life. my take | Reviewer: Sarah ------ About the song Between The Bars performed by Elliott Smith I agree it is a song that is very open to interpretation. When I first heard the song I thought it sounded like a lullaby and that he was singing to a baby, kissing it between the bars (of the crib) and projecting his own grief and problems upon it. It seems to me that Smith intentionally made a double sided comparison with a baby because they are still so innocent and such innocence adds greater contrast to his own situation. r.i.p. elliott smith | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Bled White performed by Elliott Smith it would be too stereotypical for elliott smith to have written a song seemingly about people changing while it is really about a struggle with alcohol. he isn't that mediocre. it is a personal gripe with people he cared deeply for who have disappointed him with time while they were the ones that turned the cold shoulder to him, interprated just as he states it. the alcohol is a passing comment he makes because sometimes it does seem that drinking will resolve the pain, but it doesn't as he is aware of. but if it helps you with your drinking problem (or whatever) then let it mean that to you music is supposed to help heal whatever ails you as long as it seems to work. exceptional | Reviewer: topher ------ About the song Roman Candle performed by Elliott Smith one of the things that makes the greats so amazing is the way their music has such a distinct sound. elliott smith's guitar is unmistakable. It is so fluid and smooth and soft and clever. this song provides some of the best imagery of all of his stuff. The low D he hits near the end of the song really sounds like a candle melting. its unbelievable. when i play this song on my guitar i just hear how empty i sound compared to him. it's beautiful nonetheless. silly | Reviewer: bob ------ About the song Roman Candle performed by Elliott Smith emo is silly. elliott's music is hardly the childlike whine-fest that is sold to teenagers as "emo". elliott's insight was practically transcendental, and his ability to straddle the border between hope and despair, and render for our ears the best and gentlest parts of his struggles, elevates him into a category beyond any such ridiculous pop-genres of Today; his songs will be around long after we have suppressed our maudlin memories of emo. god bless him. how did i | Reviewer: brooklynn ------ About the song Twilight performed by Elliott Smith your songs are amazing i love the one that says how did i get here i use to know it but what is the song caaled i need to know or i will never get to know that song i love you and always will love you friends forever and can you come over one day i live on 3321/2 lawrence st.and my number is 419-502-6051 call me today please cause i would like to meet you love you bye. Fond Farewell... | Reviewer: Dave ------ About the song Fond Farewell performed by Elliott Smith This song i believe captures the soul of everyone. It is a beautiful song full of images so someone in pain and mixed up in everything. The song is something great to listen to whike trying to cope with a loss. Sad the song is, but you can relate to every word that is sung by Elliott. I was turned onto him by a friend, it all started with St.Ides Heaven. However with that came the rest of his music. AMAZING STUFF. Alcoholic to an Alcoholic | Reviewer: Sam ------ About the song Between The Bars performed by Elliott Smith I agree that this song (along with any real piece of art) can be interpreted many different ways and I love that there's so many to read here. Personally I thought it was an alcoholic speaking to an alcoholic when I heard this song. From the point of a man who is a shell of who he once was to a love that is now going through the painful, downward spiral that addiction eventually brings. How the the singer constantly tells the other to drink up and: forget all about the pressure of days And drive them away The images stuck in your head It felt to me that this advise was coming from first hand experience. He knew exactly what she was feeling and how hopeless life becomes. Then going on to saying: The people you've been before That you don't want around anymore All the persona's we make as individuals. We're never truly ourselves. Whether its in front of a boss, friend, loved one, etc. But for some reason these two people felt kindred and he felt that he knew how to "fix" her or at least numb her pain. With the: I'll kiss you again between the bars Where I'm seeing you there with your hands in the air Waiting to finally be caught I thought of (at first) a woman in a prison cell after a horrible binge and a lot of bad decisions. Purposely sabotaging her life just to finally not be a danger to herself anymore. Then I thought of her between bar runs looking up at the stars, hands in the air, ready to fall back. To be caught by someone. But they mean the same thing, all around. Just someone who is craving for support when their life is in disrepair. Meaning of "Bars" | Reviewer: Garrison ------ About the song Between The Bars performed by Elliott Smith I find it interesting how many different meanings we've applied to the word "bar". I've seen the meaning of candy bars and a bar where you buy beer. My interpretation was that his lover is in a prison cell, and he's kissing here "between the bars". I immediately interpreted this as a Romeo and Juliet type of situation. I see them "drinking up" poison, killing themselves, because the girl is in prison and they are going to be forever separated. I also think, though, that it might just be the man encouraging his lover to drink the poison, because of the line "Keep you apart, deep in my heart" I'm surprised at how many interpretations different people have about this song, and I'm sure to each of us our own sounds the most logical. Breahttaking | Reviewer: Matt ------ About the song King's Crossing performed by Elliott Smith I'd like to point the line 'all I wanna do now is inject my ex-wife', I'm pretty certain this line speaks louder than all the rest as a drug refrence. In many of his songs, especially True Love, he uses a romantic relationship to represent his relationship heroin. Since around the time he wrote/ recorded this song he was mostly off heroin it would be his ex-wife and this would be a statement describing how even past withdrawal his heart still belonged to the drugs. Best singer, best songwriter of all time drug references | Reviewer: annonymous ------ About the song King's Crossing performed by Elliott Smith yes, there are drug references in this song, but there are vague or non-vague drug references in a lot of his songs. most of those referring to heroin or needles in some form. but some of you are way over-analyzing the lyrics. couldn't some of them just be pretty images used as veiled references to drugs in some non-specific way? (thinking of the "skinny santa" lines here) internal perspective | Reviewer: mephilip@hotmail.com ------ About the song Needle In The Hay performed by Elliott Smith i believe elliot smith wouldn't care about you and your problems, I would like to believe he left because around him all he could see was people so submersed in their own sadness that even if he had found his own happiness he would only be dragged down by the rest of us alameda | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Alameda performed by Elliott Smith one of many greats by elliott smith. i think, or actually im pretty sure, he's reffering to alameda st right here in LA. it's the same street union station is on. it totally goes well, too. picture a filty, dusty street that smells like piss and is infested with homeless people that wander around like zombies all night. yellow streetlights, trash everywhere. the mood of the song goes perfectly with the ambience on alameda st. Strung out | Reviewer: Kevin ------ About the song Strung Out Again performed by Elliott Smith You must be crazy, Masterful. I too indulge in pills every once in a while but I don't have a habit and a physical addiction. I have seen several friends become addicted to smack and it is a terrible, terrible thing. The desperation, the lying, the withdrawals, it's all terrible. People lose everything to heroin: their friends, their jobs, their enrollment in school, and if they've gone really far they can even lose their family after burning them too many times. about mom? | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Everything Reminds Me Of Her performed by Elliott Smith I never heard the inspirations for this song, but a possible explanation could be that the "her" is his mom. Leaving her at 14yrs to get away from his abusive stepfather left him with feelings of guilt and mixed emotions. Already a junk bond trader and reaching for happiness | Reviewer: Eric Tomás Paneto ------ About the song Wouldn't Mama Be Proud? performed by Elliott Smith I've read the biography -Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing- and though it got mixed revues I liked it a lot, the following is a perception that I gathered from reading interviews, bios, and information from that book. This song was released in 2000-2001 and was made from 1998-2000. At this point in Elliott Smith's life he was becoming quite a bit more money and notoriety and I don't think he knew how to cope with this fame and his self deprecation that he inflicted on himself a lot. I would like to think that this self deprication came from being sensitive, not unlike how I think of myself, but the truth is I think it was a combination of this and his being clinically depressed, having a sadness that would creep up on him often. There truth of this in at least one song where he sings something like "I get down, and I can't define the reason why, I just do". If someone wants to remind me what this song is, I would be indebted to you,, because it would make my argument much stronger ;) The song is about getting your foot into the door of something, in Smith's case this was the music industry and/or possibly a relationship. It is a very good song because not only can it have these two meanings but many scenarios could be brought about by keen speculation about one's life. I am a huge fan of Elliott Smith and actually took a music literature class where I did an in depth analysis of Roman Candle(much more MLA based then this beautiful but not formal analysis ;) I will end this informal testament to my love for this song and in truth every Elliott Smith song by stating that, "I think Elliott Smith was a genius and if you can get past the saddness, truly it is scientific his pictures of love, at least for myself". whoa | Reviewer: A Lonely Listener ------ About the song Needle In The Hay performed by Elliott Smith This song is without a doubt the best song for any teenager contemplating suicide. This song can relate to anyones relationship or drug problems and make you want to listen to it over and over again. Personally, this is my song of choice when sitting up all night thinking about life and all of its ups and downs. I really wish elliott was still around to write amazing songs like this one. 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