Lyrics Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith

A Fond Farewell

The Litebrite's now black and white

'Cause they took apart a picture that wasn't right

Pitch burning on a shining sheet

The only maker that you'd want to meet

A dying man in a living room

Whose shadow paces the floor

He'll take you out any open door

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

He said really I just wanna dance

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

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