Elliott Smith - Everything's Okay

Everything's okay
Walks along the dock
With some sailor's pay
Shoved down in his sock
Everything's okay
With some little boy in blue
Who don't know you like I do

Everything's okay
Took him back to town
Well, I didn't get paid today
So I'm in the lost and found
And I wonder if that clown
Knows just what to do
What to say and what not to

The pretty words that you whispered
Maybe I misunderstood
Somebody's not paying attention
What they promised and their word isn't good

Everything's okay
I'm looking for you now
Down here by the bay
Where the water pounds
Up against the wall
That I'm coming to
Because I can't stay away from you

I don't need no satisfaction
And I don't take just because I can
Sometimes I get a strong impression
That you just don't understand
That kind of man

Everything's okay
I can see your face
Don't there in the waves
Painted and erased
But I'm told it's just
The reflection of the moon
A big fake resembling you

I'm going to go down in the water
And fill my mouth up full of sand
And I'll be waiting still impatient
With my dead imagination
While you're with some other man

Everything's okay
I'll be with you soon
I'm walking out to place
My arms around the moon
Yeah, I'll be with you soon
Just as soon as I pay
I'll walk across the water
Everything's okay
Walk on the water
Everything's okay

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[cmartmozzy]

I love the closed captioning on this vid. It gets exactly one line right.

The song is great but I think I prefer the Prettty Mary K version of it better. It seems to hit me a little harder.

[mymayapapaya]

@cmartmozzy lol I didn't even know youtube had closed captioning

[Graciefrance]

I Love the things conor oberst said about his music.

"sometimes when you're not feeling good, you have to listen to really sad music like Elliott Smith's he wrote the sweetest, saddest, most gentle songs". Oberst also said he liked to "listen to Elliott Smith's songs when he couldn't find anyone to talk to on the phone" and thought that it was sad that, "through his music, Smith had the ability to answer feelings in others that he was unable to answer in himself".

And I Love Elliott Smith. <3

[brandonwrightmusic]

reminds me of john lennon

[PwnZoneification]

This is like Pretty Mary K but a lot better

[CorleoneMCFC]

@siebenny He apparently thought that he was abused as a child by his stepfather whilst living in Texas, but he couldn't remember it (he thought it was a repressed memory). Without music, he claimed he would probably have 'gone after' his stepdad, so music really was escapism to him.

A really complex and tragic man; a truly heartbreaking story.

[jonnyryanmusic]

@everyone

Everything's Okay.

[siebenny]

@ALeonardoA116 music wasn't a job to him, it was an escape ??? iv'e heard an interview where he said music was something he HAD to do.. or something along those lines :) anyway i'm just glad he did make albums, the world would be a less colourful place with out him..

[fheisk]

@ALeonardoA116 he was probably hyper about it and depressed otherwise. just a guess. Some people work that way. It was also probably force of habit for him.

[mattcav221]

there's something about elliott smith's music and lyrics that just moves me in a way that even the greats like the Beatles or Radiohead could never do

[Bushie1988]

@ancook58 yeah exactly ! he was quirky a lot of the time .. bleh ! fuck it if people wanna sit in dark rooms remembering elliott for being a depressed , sappy tortured soul then let them haha well be the people that remembers him for his quirky , fun and generic outlook on life ! and of course his awesome songs.