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from “A Fond Farewell”

Good and evil matched perfect, it’s a great romance
I can deal with some psychic pain
If it’ll slow down my higher brain
Veins full of disappearing ink
Vomiting in the kitchen sink
Disconnecting from the missing link

This is not my life
It’s just a fond farewell to a friend
It’s not what I’m like
It’s just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn’t get things right
Fond farewell to a friend

I see you’re leaving me and taking up with the enemy
The cold comfort of the in-between
A little less than a human being
A little less than a happy high
A little less than a suicide
The only things that you really tried

This is not my life
It’s just a fond farewell to a friend

–Elliott Smith

She had a dream
Woke up in shock
She had seen
Her own body outlined in chalk
I split the scene, the globe been spun
And her ghost leaned down to kiss me
With a message from the sun
Don’t go down
Don’t go down
Stay with me, baby, stay

–lyrics by Elliott Smith from “Don’t Go Down”
found in the album From a Basement on the Hill