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Cecilia/Amanda - Elliott Smith - 1998

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Uploaded by on Aug 31, 2008

Black and blue from passing around, white, he says "Lady ain't a hit no more."
Cecilia Amanda, I don't want to see you get like you got before—
Another patient in a party dress yesterday, dancing on a permanent scratch
In a place where lonely men pay to make their opposites match.

Little Miss Amanda wants to know how long you're going to be gone,
And she asked me can I fix it so your record plays the rest of her song,
Cause every remembrance of you has been buried below,
Every memory that I unhappily know.

I'm sorry for you and your kid,
The things you promised that you never did.
She asked me are you a pretty dancer,
But I don't think I'm gonna answer.

Oh, black and blue from passing around white you fake me back to the daily score.
If you got a little baby now, I don't wanna see you around here no more.
Ah, Amanda put on her new party dress yesterday, dancing to a record you scratched.
I'm some dealing amateur actor making opposites match.

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  • I just shit my pants kuz that was so good

  • one of my favorites. i'm so happy and thankful he had the genius mind to think up wonderful music like this.

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  • I don't know what it is about this version that's so much more expressive than the more recent remaster...it has a softness and an analogue warmth to it that's become more unfashionable as the years have gone by.

  • best ES song

  • Lord, sounds just amazing!

  • Elliotts rejects are still better than any other song

  • Please correct title, per Larry Crane "Cecilia/Amanda was tracked on 11/19/1997"

  • Cecili Amanda what a beautifull name.. omg it is so underrated...

  • @thisisbenisben yeah I hear ya, I don't really feel the piano and orchestrated parts in this one, but the chord progressions are great.

  • So amazing. Thank you so much for writing out the lyrics too, they were wrong everywhere else I looked.

  • listen... i like this song and acoustic i think it would have been mighty..but the overdubs don't work for me so much... sorry elliott..like a lot of his later work i guess...

  • Man the line "If you got a little baby now, I don't wanna see you around here no more" breaks my heart, he cared a lot for everyone :)

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