Elliott Smith - Alphabet Town video free download


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Duration: 04:12
Uploaded: 2008/06/12

Alphabet city is haunted

Constantina feels right at home

She probably won't say you're wrong

You're already wrong

You're already wrong

And you threw up whatever she shot down

Said show me around this alphabet town

Said show me around

There's a name you keep repeating

You got nothing better to do

And you're with someone who'll hear you say it and just not mind

Her hand on your arm

Her hand on your arm

She put her hand on your arm

And told you her name you can't pronounce it

I'll show you around this alphabet town

I'll show you around this alphabet town

I know what you are

I just don't mind

I won't say you're wrong

I know what you want

And it's what i want

So let's go out

I'm ready to go out

I'll show you around this alphabet town

I'll show you around this alphabet town

Comments

9 years ago

Collin Sullivan

I always imagined he was talking about an experience with a prostitute; drugs possibly included. I thinks it's terrific how certain lines, "threw up whatever she shot down" "she put her hand on your arm" have multifold images wrapped up in them

9 years ago

Randy Wagner

Its about his time in Portland. I grew up here, streets go Alder, burnside, cedar etc. Alphabet town. Do your homework, there's more to his art then heroin. Elliott used to score off of Morrison now called Goose Hollow. Back then known as the "Westside rails" 

9 years ago

Shane Mellott

This song is about Portland! Duh!!!

9 years ago

José Samuel Chapermann

I know what you areI just don't mindI won't say you're wrongI know what you wantAnd it's what i wantSo let's go outI'm ready to go outI'll show you around this alphabet town

9 years ago

tomitstube

this is dripping with heroin, something i'm not doing right now. videography is brilliant, it's usually the other way round but you must pat yourself on the back.

9 years ago

Sarah Elizabeth

this is song is obviously about shooting heroin! RIP Elliot, the world misses you <3

9 years ago

Brendan Gilmartin

always assumed this song was about going out drinking and picking up a random stranger after a break up, he wrote a lot of songs about drinking "christian brothers" from Roman Candle named after the brandy, great song anyways i normally avoid commenting on youtube videos as i find most comments irritate me to death but I strongly disagree with anyone who thinks this song is about heroin, needle and the hay now that's a different story altogether. 

9 years ago

bellona6356

Damn. That harmonica pushes all the right buttons

10 years ago

FTP420FTW

I don't think hes talking about drinking at all this sounds like a junkies story to me.

10 years ago

majest33

I guess what i mean to say is music doesn't change lives, except to inspire its listeners to do it themselves for better or worse. I think frank is just being pro-vocative in his perception of the nature of ES's why would you try to take that away from us? music is therapeutic whats wrong with that? If ES meant it to be discouraging he could have made it less harmonious and more unnerving..well..some of the tracks do have some rather obvious dischords.

10 years ago

majest33

you are. its music, thats what it does.Especially if musician is "venting" a kindred feeling. For listener, It can only be the beginning of something, even if its the beginning of the end of something else. Its up to the listener to "end it" whatever that means to you. But your right to be realistic, It's fantasy to assume ES or anyones music could always effect people in the same progressive ways. maybe one thinks: this is the devil telling me to...can hardly blame the music though for crazy.

10 years ago

Benjamin Braddock

what burt schmirganov said

10 years ago

SLACKER614

I feel that when he passed...Portland itself was wounded...the city is changing for the worse...Yuppies everywhere eating our soul in public....

10 years ago

Tarkier12

that was quiet beautiful my friend, in a "dark humor" kind of way.

10 years ago

Kip Boahn (Kip Yellowjacket)

Break + English Lyrics (Alphabet Town)... Elliott Smith - Alphabet Town

10 years ago

RebelRampant

For the better? Thats sounds a lil too 'happy ending'ish'. No, sometimes it doesn't change for the better. And it will never change for the better; except to get u up long enough to knock u on ur ass again. But there IS a kind of beauty and grace when you stop trying to make it what it never will be & just call it what it is. I just dont like when ppl make ES a rehab or self help infomercial. It doesnt need a happy ending to be beautiful... just an ending will do. though I could b wrong.

10 years ago

Colton Roberts

This song used to give me the creeps and I loved it!

10 years ago

J. Blackout

I know that this comment was made 3 years ago but you brought up an interesting idea. I wont say you're wrong, but I would think it would have to deal with what you do with the song. I have thought about this idea as well, and I would think many fans of his have too. Does it cause us more heartache? Does it give the impression that being depressed is okay? Much of the idea lies in you rather than the song. Or so i think.

10 years ago

mymayapapaya

I'm totally in love with him

10 years ago

Austin Davis

man i feel crazy sometimes cause ive never felt a love or conection with someone that ive never met before i feel like i do know him somehow tho music is very personal if it wasnt for his music i dont know if there would be anyone who can explain the stages moods and drama life brings he just gets so personal elliott makes me feel like ive never felt before his music is truely enchanting

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