The Game

"All you can do is just watch the shells/The game looks easy/That's why it sells" ~ Elliot Smith

"Life is like shopping in Hong Kong 25 years ago: 'It came broken? You still bought it.'" ~ EYS

"I wanted so badly somebody other than me staring back at me, but you were gone, gone, gone. I wanted to see you walking backwards and get the sensation of you coming home. I wanted to see you walking away from me without the sensation you're leaving me alone." ~ Counting Crows

"Because your candle burns too bright
Well, I almost forgot it was twilight" ~ Elliot Smith

"There's nothing that feels remotely the same as watching the distance grow between you and the person you love as he/she walks away." ~ EYS

"They say that god makes problems just to see what you can stand/before you do as the devil pleases/and give up the thing you love" ~ Elliot Smith

"I sometimes think of it as I'm in the middle of a really painfully long Saturday Night Live skit in slo-mo. I still am hoping that it'll end up well, that in the end, I'll still have a good laugh. Still an optimist. Painfully naive." ~ EYS

"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 thing that you really try" ~ Elliot Smith

"A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free." ~ Elliot Smith