Figure 8

Elliott Smith Figure 8 Lyrics
1.Can't Make A Sound

I have become a silent movie
The hero killed the clown

Can't make a sound

Nobody knows what he's doing
Still hanging around

Can't make a sound

The slow motion moves me
The monologue means nothing to me

Bored in a role, but he can't stop
Standing 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

Can't make a sound

Eyes locked and shining
Can't you tell me what's happening?

Why should you want any other, when you're a world within a
world?


2.Color Bars

color bars:

I see color bars when i come
Sargeant rock broke the key off in the lock
To where i come from
Sir, no sir.
We have no power in the air
The battle's on the ground
Laying low again,
High on the sound

Bruno s. is a man to me
You're just some dude with a stilted attitude
That you learned from tv
You'll undo
But i'll be connecting everything
The traffic in my town
Riding high again,
High on the sound

Everyone wants me to ride into the sun
But i ain't gonna go down
Laying low again,
High on the sound


3.Everything Means Nothing To Me

Someone found the future as a statue in a fountain at
Attention looking backward
In a bowl of water wishes with a blue songbird on his
Shoulder who keeps singing over everything

Everything means nothing to me

I picked up the song and found my picture
In the paper the reflection in the water shouted
'are you men still trying to salute
People from a time when he was
Everything he's supposed to be?'

Everything means nothing to me


4.Everything Reminds Me Of Her

I never really had a problem because of leaving
But everything reminds me of her this evening

So if i seem a little out of it, sorry
But why should i lie?
Everything reminds me of her

The spin of the earth impaled a silhouette of the sun on the
steeple
And i got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you
people
Why are you staring into outer space, crying?
Just because you came across it, and lost it

Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her


5.In The Lost And Found(Honky Bach)

He held his breath
To hold your hand
To walk the stairsteps in pairs
Climbing up the slippery slope
I'm in love
God, i hope(?)
Don't go home angelina
Stay with me
Hanging around in the lost and found

He kissed her quick
Feeling weird
Lonely (?)
Disappear
This is such a simple place
Passing time
Getting (?)
Don't don't go go home angelina
Make tomorrow new

Day breaks
And every morning when he wakes
He thinks of you

I'm alone
That's ok
I dont mind
Most of the time
I dont feel afraid to die
She was here, passing by
Don't don't go go home angelina
Stay with me
Hanging around in the lost and found
Stay with me
Hanging around in the lost and found


6.I Better Be Quiet Now

Wish you gave me a number
Wish i could call you today,
Just to hear a voice.
I got a long way to go
Getting further away.

If i didn't know the difference,
Living alone would probably be ok.
It wouldn't be lonely.
I got a long way to go
Getting further away.

A lot of hours to occupy it was easy
When i didn't know you yet,
Things i'd have to forget.

But i better be quiet now,
I'm tired of wasting my breath
Carrying on, getting upset.

Maybe i have a problem,
But thats not what i wanted to say.
I prefer to say nothing.
I got a long way to go
Getting further away.

Had a dream as an army man with an order
Just to march in my place
But a dead enemy
Screams in my face

But i better be quiet now,
I'm tired of wasting my breath
Carrying on, not over it yet.

Wish i knew what you were doing.
Why you want to do it this way.
So i can't go the distance,
I got a long way to go,
I'm getting further away.
I got a long way to go
Getting further away.


7.Junk Bond Trader

The imitation picks you up like a habit
Riding in the glow of the tv static
Taking out the trash to the man
Give the people something they understand

Mistake a nervous flash for a fine-line smile
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a stock
Rich man in a poor man's clothes
The permanent installment of the daily dose

And you tell me, 'fool, you tell it like it is'
Your wall's gone wider than your head trip is
Checking into a small reality
Void as a drug you take too regularly

The apple needs to laugh; the broken crutch
The first two folded at the slightest touch
Brought down like an old hotel
People digging through the rubble for things they can resell

'happy holidays,' said sid the saviour
Believe in love i still favour
I won't take your medicine
I don't need a remedy
To be everything i'm supposed to be
I don't want nobody else
I can do it by myself
We're meant to be together

Now i'm a policeman directing traffic
Keeping everything moving, everything static
I'm the hitchhiker you recognize passing
On your way to some everlasting...

Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can


8.L.a.

The gentle little elaine,
Spinning his hat on a cane
Stepping out, out for change
'good morning all, it's a beautiful day'

The generals are winning a war
Seemed suicidal before
You came alone, now
I'll protect you, long as you stay

Lllllaaaaa
One of a kind
You'll be walking in the sun
Living in the day
Last night i was about to throw it all away

If patience started a band,
I'd be her biggest fan
Look at me, i'm talking to you
I don't want the lead in your play

The star's just a part of the scene
The gentle man in green
Paying off, out on the street
I can't go home, it's not on my way

Llllllaaaaaa
Things are never done, car's parked in the sun
Living in the day
Last night i was about to throw it all away (4 times)


9.Pretty Mary K

Almost forgot
Started to say
Rode into the sun
Asked everyone
Haleluja
Pretty mary k
I found faith in the infirmary
There's a soldier lying in bed
With a wound to the head
Calling out to pretty mary k
Here's what you get
For things that haven't happened yet
Happened upon pretty mary k
But a soldier's uniform
Waved me away
Walk 'round the door
Talked to st. james
Though i'm already done
Ask everyone
Have you seen her
Pretty mary k
Have you seen her
Pretty mary k


10.Somebody That I Used To Know

i had tender feelings that you made hard,
But it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred.
So when i go home, i'll be happy to go -
You're just somebody that i used to know.

You don't need my help anymore,
It's all now to you, there aint no before,
Now that you're big enough to run your own show
You're just somebody that i used to know.

I watched you deal in a dying day,
And throw a living past away,
So you can be sure that you're in control,
You're just somebody that i used to know.

I know you don't think you did me wrong,
And i can't stay this mad for long,
Keeping a hold of what you just let go -
You're just somebody that i used to know.


11.Son Of Sam

Something's happening, don't speak to soon
I told the boss off and made my move
Got no where to go
Son of sam, son of a shining path, the clouded mind
Couple killer each and every time
I'm not uncomfortable, feeling weird
Long revered options disappear
But i know what to do
Son of sam, son of a doctor's touch, a nurse's love
Acting under orders from above...
King for a day...
Son of sam, son of a shining path, the clouded mind
Couple killer running out of time
Shiva opens her arms now
To make sure i don't get to far
I may talk in my sleep tonight cause i don't know what i am
I'm a little like you, more like son of sam


12.Stupidity Tries

Got a foot in the door
God knows what for
And it'll cut me down to size
Stupidity tries
Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries
So then a shoulder
Raised a cheer
Coloring the sky with ash
Because they found some privateer
To sail across the sea of trash
The enemy is within
Don't confuse me with him
The truth is otherwise
Stupidity tries
And so i go from floor to floor
Looking for a port of call
Another drunk conquistador
Conquering the governor's ball
I couldn't think of a thing
That i hope tomorrow brings
Oh what a surprise
Stupidity tries


13.Taking The Easy Way Out

You'll take advantage 'til you think you're being used
Cause without an enemy your anger gets confused
I got stuck on the side you know, i never chose
But it's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose

There's no escape for you except in someone else
Although you've already disappeared within yourself
The invisible man who's always changing clothes
It's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose

Well i don't want you making mistakes
I wish you luck i really do
But the problem with the puzzle
Whatever's left to you

I heard you found another audience to bore
A creative thinker who imagined you were more
A new body for you to push around and pose
It's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose
It's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose


14.Tom's Start

Activity is killing the actor
And a cop's standing out in the road turning traffic away
There's nothing she could do until after
When his body'd been buried below
Way back in the day
Oh my nothing else could have been done
Made his life a lie
So he might never have to know anyone
Made his life a lie, you know
I told him he shouldn't have sent her
He'd only be making it worse
Bothering somebody else
But i he that he'd never forget her
While her memory worked in reverse
To keep her safe from herself
Oh my nothing else could have been done
She made her life a lie
So she might never have to know anyone
Made her life a lie, you know
What i used to be will pass away and then you'll see
And all i want now is happiness for you and me
What i used to be will pass away and then you'll see
And all i want now is happiness for you and me. . . .


15.Wouldn't Mama Be Proud?

The question is wouldn't mama be proud?
There's a silver lining in the corporate cloud
And the pretty pose that you're taking as
As an emcee, oh, of the great pretender
I should sure think so

Wouldn't mama be proud?

'can i take your order?'
Asks the heavenly host
Ticket to the jetstream
Blowing coast to coast

The long stemmed glasses, a movie
And a pleasant dream in mid air
You gotta tell me quickly
Cos we're almost there

Wouldn't mama be proud?

If you look out your window
And the sky's gone black
Well kid you're on the right track

If i send you postcards
From the side of the road
Photographs of moving
Parts about to explode

If i call to keep it together
Like you say i can do
To transmit a moment
From me to you

Wouldn't mama be proud?
Wouldn't mama be proud?
Wouldn't mama be proud?
Wouldn't mama be proud?