Elliott Smith - Looking Over My Shoulder

Elliott Smith - Looking Over My Shoulder

LYRICS
Wiped out in the city slick
Another sick rock 'n' roller acting like a dick
waving cash
Burning through the trash
That piles up in this place
And fills up behind my empty face
Full of things that I'm not to do

You come over with all of your friends
And all their opinions I don't want to know
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away with nowhere to go

I run down to the corner lot
It's forty-five past two
I almost forgot to show
Got a date to make with Mr. So-and-So
After which
I won't care when you all start to bitch and moan
About being alone

You come over with all of your friends
And all their opinions I don't want to know
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away with nowhere to go

Well, can't you just leave me alone?
You've already thrown all the sticks and stones
You had to send my way
Well, can't you just leave it at that?
And spare us both the bother
Because I just bounce back anyway
I got nothing that I want to do more
Than make another sonic fuck you to play
Whenever you make my life cliche
So to fit in some little box with the all the lame bullshit
You say to keep confusion away

You come over with all of your friends
And all their opinions I don't want to know
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away with nowhere to go

You come over with all of your friends
And all their opinions I don't want to know
And I'm looking over my shoulder
Booking away

Category:

Music

Tags:

• elliott
• smith
• looking
• over
• my
• shoulder
• new
• moon

[hstands4hero]

ive listened to every elliott smith song on youtube and i still think this is the best. or almost over. both genius.

[mymayapapaya]

I love Almost Over. :)

[Vamphaery]

So the version on New Moon leaves out the aborted intro? Also, is the track used for this video in mono? If not, then it sounds like they increased the volume of the vocals, and centered them (they were pushed left and right in the version I heard before New Moon.) Kind of jarring at first but I can adapt to it.

Love this song, though.

[mymayapapaya]

Youtube puts everything into mono.

[icec0rpse]

I know why Elliott Smith isn't mainstream... Same reason Nick Drake and Tom Waits are underated. For the same reasons all the dipshit rap artists are famous:::

People are afraid of the truth and too vain to actually accept humility.

AND GUESS WHAT ELSE?!?! HOMICIDAL PEOPLE THINK VERY HIGHLY OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR ACTIONS!!!

Just a little something to think about.

[Sierra12141992]

elliott smith is my favorite songwriter

RIP.

[MrFeejee]

66.666th

[IvanTheCat]

really interesting and unconventional verse melody

[MisterStephen777]

I heard this song for the first time on the worst day of my life. The worst day of my life was a lot better than it would have been if it never got composed too, in my opinion.. He was the most innovative song writer I've never felt jealous of.

[jflow07]

my elliott smith #1 fave

[Vamphaery]

"Whenever you make my life cliche, so to fit in some box with all the labeled shit."

Funny, I posted this on another Elliott video, and it applies here too.

People will attack and then seek to force conformity and categorization on people in some incredibly cruel and hearless ways when one is different enough. They truly believe they are "helping" you by shunning and questioning your mental stability if you don't think/feel/dress/believe the way they do. Even if you aren't hurting anyone.

[pureflye]

You come over with all of your friends.. and all their opinions I don't want to know... I love this song

[utarefsonmetushelac]

@Dirtmurder haha I loved your analogy with the movies

[grimdoomsday]

sometimes the best musicians are barely known... bet you've never heard of nick drake either...

[justabitbetter]

i think if you've been abused and have a drug problem, the songs open up a lot more. it's xmas day and im sat in my flat just about to jack up and then have pina colada or ten and listen to elliott for the rest of the day. i dont get what the fuss is about xmas. this one's for you elliott. r.i.p.