Elliott Smith - True Love (Studio Version)

I noticed this one wasn't on here, only the live versions... so here is the version that he recorded in the studio.

download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gowjmijncn4

HQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iL5Dba_RmA&fmt=18

From "Grand Mal" (Disc 2)

Lyrics:

true love is a rose
behind glass that's locked and kept closed
maybe just for me
'cos my soul's been attacked
and shattered by tough love, bad love
i bought mine on the street
true love it just can't be beat
i felt so complete
married to heavenly bodies above
and each night i'd look up
at a bright honeymoon
'cos it sure seemed built to last
and even after my honeymoon passed
i kept right on it man
like a ghost
to the house it was haunting
day after day
i'd steal with my true love away
to some hide out left undisturbed
we could do what we wanted
but i started to feel like a liar
saying i love you
mad in love and at me
there's no in between
came on and on
i found you can't make a stand
i'm her hired hand
i have to do harm
one day i got sick
she played me a nasty old trick
said i need cigarettes
walked round the block
caught a cab
stayed gone for too long
and my love had gotten so strong
just to try being back on my own
i had to go to rehab
all i need is a safe place to bleed
is this where it's at
having no chance
steps in a dance
your whole life's been in combat
now i'm the king of the ward
'cos i'm good and i swallow my sword
and puke it out
for the doctors to write a new prescription
tranquil as a dove
people that have lost their true love
all seem to fit the same description
i feel cold, useless and old
I wish i was no one
take me home my love
take me home today
take me out of this place
take me home with you today

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• Elliott Smith
• True Love
• Grand Mal
• Studio Version

[kieran514]

there is a better version out there, where the vocals sync up

[daviddowns81]

i like this version... the double tracked vocals give it a feeling of a duo personality, it fits this song very well.

but wouldnt mind hearing the other.

[ganuenen]

this song would have fit in on basement on the hill so well!!! god i love this song, and this is such an amazing version, i love his background vocals in this song!!! XO

[daviddowns81]

yes, it would of, i think right after Twiight

[WhereAreYouArienette]

"All I need is a safe place to bleed".

From first hand experience, I can say that lyric perfectly illustrates how addicts and mentally ill people in the grips of hopelessness feel about being institutionalized. They only feel safe when they are stripped of the freedom to destroy themselves.

[IreneSingsStuff]

@staphinfection Elliott himself said he was originally going to trash these songs, and still wanted to. They probably just knew him well enough to honor what he might have preferred.

[shhmellshlikeasshhhh]

He looks dead in that picture.

[daviddowns81]

@heyjude97 well, we can look for light in the darkness. The song comes from a very dark place that maybe some who has not experienced what he did will not get. Yeah, it may bring some light into your life. But that light has to come out of darkness. It is like the "one can not experience true pleasure if they have not experienced true pain". This song speaks to that if you take the time to hear it, not just listen to it.

[heyjude97]

@staphinfection I like to think of Elliott's music as very light music. There's nothing I see that's dark about it. I hate the term 'dark.' :)

[staphinfection]

His parents are stupid for not putting all these great songs on the posthumous album just because they're of "dark" nature.... But that's what makes them so great.

[justincase4080]

Dude was messed up.

[aidan610]

there will never be any other. He was and is the voice of a generation, although i think he'd probably hate the idea of being so.

[PpPayton379]

all i need is a safe place to bleed

[GSarovich]

He was and always will be one of the greatest people to have ever lived.