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“I'm looking at a hand full of broken plans, and I'm tired of playing it down, you just want her to do anything to you, there ain't nothing you won't allow, you wake up in the middle of the night, from a dream you won't remember flashing on like a cop's light, you say she's waiting and I know what for, the white lady loves you more**The White Lady Loves You More”

Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)

“Bored in a role, but he can't stopStanding up to sit back down,and lose the one thing found.Spinning the world like a toy top'till there's a ghost in every town.<BR”

Can't Make A Sound.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

“Because your candle burns too brightwell, I almost forgot it was twilight. Even if I think that you are right, well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight. You're wonderful, and it's beautiful, but I'm already somebody's baby. And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too.”

Twilight.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

“The first true love that folded at the slightest touch,brought down like an old hotel,people digging through the rubble for things they can resell.<BR”

Junk Bond Trader.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

“Don't you know that I love you?sometimes I feel likeonly a cold still lifeonly a frozen still lifethat fell down here to lay beside you.<BR”

Angel in the Snow.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“It's a picture perfect eveningAnd I'm staring down the sunFully loaded, deaf, and dumbAnd done waiting for sedation to disconnect my headOr any situation where I'm better off than dead”

Sweet Adeline.
Lyrics, XO (1998)