Coming Up Roses - Elliott Smith

[@revalone3944]

this song gets stuck in my head for days

[@jacobstern93]

@MatthewS8590 Elliott didn't start getting into the heavy drugs until around the time of Figure 8. He was most definitely drunk though. Drinking was always a big problem of his...

[@TommyBoy12]

i sense the punk in his voice

[@thebeasts9493]

Se ve irreconocible con ese look

[@jacobstern93]

@Bryce6789 Actually I read his biography. He liked the imagery of heroin but wasn't actually a junkie until later. And I have read his lyrics.

[@catface101]

Apparently filmed by Mary Lou Lord at the Horseshoe Tavern, Ontario, 1995. If this was from their first tour they were in Vancouver 2nd March 1995, Seattle on the 3rd, Portland 4th, San Fran 6th, Los Angeles 7th. I suspect this is from 1st March 1995 or before. They were also in Olympia, WA playing shows on 8th Feb and 12th Feb. He also played Alphabet Town at this show, but the video was uploaded by someone else.

[@grandmabilly2000]

guess he got in the kind of trouble that nobody knows

[@richardpictures]

white lady is cocaine. metal man is some coke paraphernalia...also, all his songs aren't necessarily about himself. the theme of the album is dependence

[@el_Ewok]

white lady is a gin cocktail

[@Curdle7]

metal man would be the "needle in my hand above the symphony" -like he says in "A Silver Chain" lyricz sun brown town

[@Curdle7]

eeyeyas. shooting dat white

[@MatthewS8590]

its hard to watch this footage, you can the the drugs starting to effect his appearance...i know he was punk and he had that look a lot but this is like a junkie whose just started to get into the stuff--very masculine and lean looking, with that hair and body. but seeing him with the aftereffects of the drugs--worn face and bradied hair--is even harder to see, just so heartberaking. the footage of him doing thirteen is prolly him at his purest, channeling that fragile inner child. so sweet.

[@alexandrealonso5446]

you´re an idiot. This was shot in 1995 and he only started doing heavy drugs post figure 8. Here, he was as fine as Elliott could be

[@oblivion2967]

@@alexandrealonso5446 yup. Hes really young here.

[@davebosworth1778]

You weren't here. Your sequence of events as you want to imagine them...wrong.

[@James-ke4gq]

@@alexandrealonso5446 lmfaoooooooo

[@BadDreamFucker]

Wrong. He was probably more nervous than anything. A little drunk too maybe.

[@richardpictures]

shootin coke dude

[@davebosworth1778]

Nope. You missed it, bro.

[@richardpictures]

Wait what were we talking about again? Refresh me - it was 6 years ago