Cover di Figure 8

Figure 8
Album - 17 aprile 2000 - Debaser id 12649

di Elliott Smith

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Son of Sam (03:04)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
Something's happening, don't speak too soon
I told the boss off, made my move, got nowhere to go
Son of Sam, son of the shining path, the clouded mind
The couple killer each and every time
I'm not uncomfortable feeling weird
Lonely leeved, options disappeared, but I know what to do
Son of Sam, son of a doctor's touch, a nurse's love
Acting under orders from above
King for a day
Son of Sam, son of the shining path, the clouded mind
The couple killer running out of time
Shiva opens her arms now
To make sure I don't get too far
I may talk in my sleep tonight 'cos I don't know what I am
I'm a little like you
More like Son of Sam
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Junk Bond Trader (03:49)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
The imitation picks you up like a habit
Riding in the glow of the tv static
Taking out the trash to the man
Give the people something they understand

Mistake a nervous flash for a fine-line smile
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a stock
Rich man in a poor man's clothes
The permanent installment of the daily dose

And you tell me, "fool, you tell it like it is"
Your wall's gone wider than your head trip is
Checking into a small reality
Void as a drug you take too regularly

The apple needs to laugh, the broken crutch
The first two folded at the slightest touch
Brought down like an old hotel
People digging through the rubble for things they can resell

"Happy holidays," said sid the saviour
Believe in love i still favour
I won't take your medicine
I don't need a remedy
To be everything i'm supposed to be
I don't want nobody else
I can do it by myself
We're meant to be together

Now I'm a policeman directing traffic
Keeping everything moving, everything static
I'm the hitchhiker you recognize passing
On your way to some everlasting...

Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
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LA (03:14)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
The gentleman's in the lane
spinning his hat on a cane
stepping out, out for a change

good morning all, it's a beautiful day

the general's are winning a war
seemed suicidal before
you come along, now
I'll protect you long as you stay

LA
morning had to come
I'd be walking in the sun
living in the day
but last night i was about to throw it all away

if patience started a band
I'd be her biggest fan
look at me, I'm talking to you
I don't want the lead in your play

The star's just a part of the scene
the gentelman in green
paying off out on the street
I can't go home, it's not on my way

LA
things I'd never done, cars parked in the sun
living in the day
but last night i was about to throw it all away
last night i was about to throw it all away
last night i was about to throw it all away
last night i was about to throw it all away
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Stupidity Tries (04:23)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
Got a foot in the door
God knows what for
And he'll cut me down to size
Stupidity tries

Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries

Savannah shoulder raised a cheer
Color in the sky with ash
Because they found some privateer
To sail across a sea of trash

The enemy is within
Don't confuse me with him
The truth is otherwise
Stupidity tries

And so I go from floor to floor
Looking for a port of call
Another drunk conquistador
Conquering the governor's ball

I couldn't think of a thing
That I hope tomorrow brings
Oh, what a surprise
Stupidity tries
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Easy Way Out (02:44)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
You'll take advantage, till you think you're being used
'Cause without an enemy your anger gets confused
And I got stuck on a side you know I never chose

But it's all about
Taking the easy way out for you
I suppose

There's no escape for you, except in someone else
Although you've already disappeared within yourself
The invisible man, who's always changing clothes

It's all about
Taking the easy way out for you
I suppose

While I watch you making mistakes
I wish you luck, I really do
With the problem, with the puzzle
Whatever's left of you

I heard you found another audience to bore
Creative thinker, you imagined you were more
A new body for you to push around and pose

It's all about taking the easy way out for you
I suppose
It's all about taking the easy way out for you
I suppose
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I Better Be Quiet Now (03:35)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
wish you gave me a number
wish i could call you today,
just to hear a voice.
i got a long way to go
getting further away.

if i didn't know the difference,
living alone would probably be ok.
it wouldn't be lonely.
i got a long way to go
getting further away.

a lot of hours to occupy it was easy
when i didn't know you yet,
things i'd have to forget.

but i better be quiet now,
i'm tired of wasting my breath
carrying on, getting upset.

maybe i have a problem,
but thats not what i wanted to say.
i prefer to say nothing.
i got a long way to go
getting further away.

had a dream as an army man with an order
just to march in my place
but a dead enemy
screams in my face

but i better be quiet now,
i'm tired of wasting my breath
carrying on, not over it yet.

wish i knew what you were doing.
why you want to do it this way.
so i can't go the distance,
i got a long way to go,
i'm getting further away.
i got a long way to go
getting further away.
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Can't Make a Sound (04:18)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
I have become a silent movie
The hero killed the clown
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Nobody knows what he's doing
Still hanging around
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
The slow motion moves me
The monologue means nothing to me
Bored in the role, but he can't stop
Standing up to sit back down
Or lose the one thing found
Spinning the world like a toy top
Til there's a ghost in every town
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Can't make a sound
Eyes locked and shining
Can't you tell me what's happening?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
Why should you want any other when you're a world within a world?
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Bye (01:53)
Elliott Smith • Figure 8
(Instrumental)
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