Original song by Pippi Light
Music and lyrics: Mark Light
Vocals: Pippi Light
Copyright 2014


Winter Park

Summer Brings Me Sorrow

You keep your clothes on in the shower
socks soaking up the water
A dripping queen of fish
For now your one and only wish

Swimming like it's your profession
or rather more like an obsession
but in that deluge you will drown
if caught up in the wrong sound.

But you don't mind, you don't mind
being glued to the time
Body nailed to the hand
Of a clock that never ran

Shaking your hips, moving your feet
Bringing your wet palms together
Who cares if you slip and fall?
The drain would swallow up that all

But have you thought it a dark sea?
it's violence never ceasing
that in one day, you would drown?
That it sought to keep you down
No, no, it'll toss and it'll turn
you, to keep you tough so you will learn

so you don't mind, you don't mind
being glued to the time
body nailed to the hand
of a clock that never ran

You keep your clothes on in the shower
Because helplessness is power
And if you don't think too much,
you'll never ever be a coward


You Keep Your Clothes on in the Shower

Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ on December 30, 1999

Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie (Live 1999-12-30 Maxwell's) [REPOST]

I had a doctor clean me out
say I'm coming down with gout
say boy, you'd better not break your stitches,
scratch the itches. 

like faces on a magazine
grateful for fluoxetine
Feeling yes, perhaps it's easy
being happy.

so, stretched out on the hardwood floor
convinced I'm dumber than before
how does one get both creative
and vegetative?

I would smile like an imbecil
my life powdered adrafinil
I'd feel my skin dripping
my opinions tipping.

Walking like a metronome
all hyped down on my methodone.
my mother said that one's a keeper,
get in deeper.

And then I'd forget all my words,
close my eyes and smell the earth.
trim the meanings, be your senses and
in all tenses.


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