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Steven Paul Smith , mais conhecido como Elliott Smith, era um cantor e músico norte-americano, nascido em Omaha, Nebraska, mas viveu grande parte da sua vida em Portland, Oregon, onde ganhou popularidade. Seu principal instrumento era o violão, mas também tocava piano, clarinete, baixo, gaita e bateria.

Depois de tocar na banda Heatmiser por alguns anos, ele começou sua carreira solo em 1994 com lançamentos pelas gravadoras independente Cavity Search e Kill Rock Stars. Em 1997 ele assinou um contrato com a DreamWorks Records, com a qual ele gravou 2 álbuns. Ficou famoso após sua canção "Miss Misery", trilha sonora de Good Will Hunting, ser indicada para o oscar como melhor canção em 1997.

Smith batalhou contra a depressão, alcoolismo e vício em drogas por anos, sendo estes relatados algumas vezes em suas canções. É conhecido inclusive por suas composições mais melancólicas, abordando temas sobre a solidão, desespero e alienação social.

Ele faleceu aos 34 anos, em Los Angeles, Califórnia, com 2 facadas no peito, sendo a autópsia inconclusiva sobre se foi ou não suicídio. Nessa época, ele estava trabalhando em seu sexto disco, From A Basement on the Hill, que foi lançado postumamente em 19 de Outubro de 2004. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Agosto 1969 – 21. Outubro 2003
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Elliott Smith: Frases em inglês

“I'm a junkyard full of false startsAnd I don't need your permissionTo bury my love under this bare light bulb.The moon is a sickle cellIt'll kill you in time.”

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Coming Up Roses.
Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)

“Here's a song I made up while I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess with the sound off. It's a fact. I had a secret crush on Xena. It was a secret to me too. I wouldn't admit it. She's pretty fuckin' tough. She has a good yell… she kills the stupid gladiators with the log-trap. Release the log-trap! She releases the log-trap and they all get… crushed. They'd all wanna be with her if they could, but unfortunately they're not on her side. It's a lot better with the sound off. Really, it is. And the song didn't have anything to do with Xena… but… I was about half a bottle through Jameson's… if that makes any sense.”

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before playing "Between the Bars" at a concert in 1996. http://www.archive.org/details/esmith2006-09-25..flacf.

“Wearing clothes that clashWondering 'is this treasure, is this trash?'Still trying to decide<BR”

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All Cleaned Out.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“I could make you satisfied in everything you do,All your secret wishes could right now be coming trueAnd be forever with my poisoned armsAround you.No one's gonna fool around with us.”

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Angeles.
Lyrics, Either/Or (1997)

“The first time I saw youI knew it would never lastI'm not half what I wish I wasI'm so angryI don't think it'll ever passAnd I was bad news for you just becauseI never meant to hurt you”

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Pitseleh.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

“I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]… I'm ready.”

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in Strange Parallel (1998).

“Everything here is freeEverything but you and meThis painting never driesStupidity tries<BR”

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Stupidity tries.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

“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”

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Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)

“I'm sorry you seem so stung,and I'm sorry you feel you have to hold your tonguewhen you're so pretty and smart<BR”

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All Cleaned Out.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“They took your life apartAnd called your failures artThey were wrong, thoughThey won't know'Til tomorrow”

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Tomorrow Tomorrow.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

“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”

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

“What I used to be will pass away, and then you'll seeThat all I want now is happiness for you and me.<BR”

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Happiness.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

“My mama told me 'baby stay cleanthere's no in between.'but all you ladies and you gentlemen,between is all you've ever seen or been.”

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A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

“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.”

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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”

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Junk Bond Trader.
Lyrics, Figure 8 (2000)

“London Bridge is safe and soundNo matter what you keep repeatingNothing's gonna drag me downTo a death that's not worth cheating”

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Baby Britain.
Lyrics, XO (1998)

“She appears composedSo she is, I supposeWho can really tell?She shows no emotion at allStares into space like a dead china doll”

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Waltz #2 (XO).
Lyrics, XO (1998)

“Haven't laughed this hard in a long timeI better stop now before I start cryingGo off to sleep in the sunshineI don't want to see the day when its dying.”

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

“This is the place where time reverses. Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses. Instruments shine on a silver trayDon't let me get carried away.”

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King's Crossing.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

“You turned white, like a saintBut I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold……Flecked paint.”

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The Biggest Lie.
Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)

“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”

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

“And though you'd rather see me gone then to see there come the day,I'll be waiting for you anyway<BR”

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Miss Misery (Early version).
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chartAnd I take what's given me, most cooperativelyI do what people say and lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied<BR”

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

“Here come your pride and joyThe comic little drunk you call your boy,Making everybody smile<BR”

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All Cleaned Out.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“Elliott: "Do you want to hear a happy or a sad song?"Crowd: "Happy!"Elliott: "Old or new?"Crowd: "Old!"Elliott: "Happy and old, that's a strange choice."”

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Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“The clock moved a quarter of a turn,the time it took a cigarette to burn<BR”

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Going Nowhere.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

“Gimme one good reason not to do it(because we love you), so do it.”

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King's Crossing.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

“Church bells and now I'm awakeAnd I guess it must be some kind of holidayI can't seem to join in the celebrationBut I'll go to the serviceAnd I'll go to prayAnd I'll sing the praises of my maker's nameLike I was as good as she made me…”

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Last Call.
Lyrics, Last Call (1994)

“Your hand on his arm, the hay stack charm around your neck, strung out and thin, calling some friend trying to cash some check, he's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect. * I can't beat myselfI can't beat myselfAnd I don't want to talk.I'm taking the cure so I can be quietWhenever I want.So leave me aloneYou ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks.”

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Needle in the Hay.
Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)