Elliott Smith - Last Call (from Roman Candle)

[@beemelonhead1]

"You're a crisis, you're an icicle, You're a tongue-less talker You don't care what you say. You're a jaywalker and you just walk away." Always loved this line.

[@Reapsonemellojam]

do i getta wish?

[@thomascraymer8712]

This particular lyric reminds me a lot of Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd... it's the kind of lyric he may have written

[@Sentient_Sherman]

the fact that he says "jus-just walk away" really conveys the frustration too

[@PeacockAffect]

Soft and gritty at the same time. Elliott Smith was a genius.

[@radioactive_p1ssy.boy.]

Agreed

[@hmoment661]

fortnite griddy

[@Laneganswake]

He understood that the whisper can be just as loud to the listener. If you watch his live shows, the good crowds go totally silent to listen

[@nikkicarreon]

I miss you so much Eliott, your heart still shines so brightly

[@Misty-yp1my]

Hey I'm a big fan and i really hope you're doing okay

[@asaantoine9485]

I know you from Arcade Craniacs. My small 8th grade class used to watch those videos in class! Cool that you have a good taste in music

[@radioactive_p1ssy.boy.]

HOLY CRAPPER YOU LISTEN TO ELLIOTT SMITJ

[@olivierdube8110]

@Nicholas H I've come to realised that contrary to Cobain, Elliott was most likely stabbed in a moment of frenzy by his girlfriend. Why? Cause of the angle of the stabs. That's my theory, neighbors also heard a commotion going on. I don't want to go much into details - you can look it up for yourself - but Mrs. Chibba also called police like half an hour after the act. Imagine having the love of your life dead at your feet and waiting half an hour to dial for help, everything about this is shady

[@AndromedaHadoukenbreakherlegs]

I mean, his music is just too good to be true. Like, I can't believe it exists. Elliott, you utter darling, you are a voice for the lost, and you make me ache. :(

[@grahamblackmore2632]

Yeah 100% a complete outsider the best kind .I think most people who are baffled by Elliott are also capable geniuses.

[@Pencil0fDoom]

Veeeer LEFT!!! In a few billion short years from now. that will have been… razor thin. But you saved us all from what befalls a great many stars and average men. You baffled the fates somehow. With a wrench of the wheel Our doom was unsealed In a just a few lightyears from now. - Nod to Andromeda

[@esteemedyams]

I mean, you should really stop starting sentences with I mean, cause it makes you sound extra dumb.

[@TiffanyT-LaDolceVita]

Bitter sweet.

[@JonShade-fy2gm]

I’ve always been completely obsessed with this song. The guitar is genius, a sense of endlessness like a constant film loop. This whole song is so prismatic. I’ve listened to it god knows how many times and I still feel that surge of excitement as soon as it begins. I miss him, I miss him so much.

[@slimmoon7203]

me too. This was the first song I saw him play live that floored me, and it's remained my favorite for nearly three decades.

[@TonyZielinski1]

Hey, Slim! Witchypoo reunion when?

[@normalman1045]

It's easily one of my favourite songs ever.

[@claudiomargheri2087]

​@@normalman1045 For real

[@claudiomargheri2087]

Prismatic. Oh yea. Spot on. Endless film loop. Oh yea. I totally feel it. Goddamn

[@ClutchGamingLeGiiT]

Really the best musician of all time. Flawless catalog, such an underrated guitarist and an incredible poet.

[@rickgriego2844]

Once you go Elliott,you never go back.the standard is just to high.only the Beatles themselves can match this guy.

[@DonavanJurich]

For REAL 🖤🎶🌻

[@lisalovehsm]

my favorite elliot smith song.

[@cremetangerine82]

I listening to the song on my iPod (with a clickwheel, really old schoo!), and I listen to the song 10 times in a row when I was at my aunt’s house around Christmas. For some reason, it felt really cathartic to hear the song that day! You are deeply missed, Elliott.

[@richardp4581]

ive listened to this song a hundred times and i still miss it every time it ends

[@trevordavis8210]

“All you aspired to do was endure. You can’t ask for more” takes the cake for me

[@waltwitman45]

Interesting perspective shift from third person, to second person, to first person.

[@chrislucarelli4395]

Nice observation

[@ruthdixon7807]

perhaps this songwriter's finest moment.

[@MatthewMcRowan]

Condor Ave for me at the moments, but that constantly changes

[@normalman1045]

I doubt there'll ever be a song that ever communicates the raw feeling of depression better than this. I mean go for it; but this is the benchmark, for me

[@shollister3009]

The rage, too. The absolute rage.

[@JohnDoe-jc6xu]

So many moments in this song give me chills Elliott truly is something else may he rest in peace

[@TheIkaraCult]

By far the best of his generation

[@marbleblue5127]

The harmonies make this song really take off. Brilliant, like a dusty Western soundtrack Greek chorus.

[@feralandroid]

I was playing this song in the car with my kids. They asked me how many times is he going to sing the same line. I responded “not enough, never enough” Rip.

[@breezy0072]

One of my favorite songs

[@ColtonRoberts95]

25 years ago today, this fantastic album was released including one of my favorite Elliott tunes to date

[@seanmatthewking]

@Yes No At least he’s evolved past the tit.

[@dlaryous]

Start to drink and just want to continue

[@wiktoro137]

@Tito 213 this is too accurate

[@melissam.9648]

I heard of Elliott Smith in the past but I never bothered to listen to his music. Last month I watched a show on Netflix and Needle in the hay was in it. Now I can't stop listening to him. I'm always alone and feel like I don't belong anywhere and I really have no one. So, I don't know, it's like I found (and lost) a friend. I wish he was still around. Thanks, Elliott. You are really precious. (for who read this, sorry for my English . -.)

[@claudiomargheri2087]

Che show?

[@melissam.9648]

@@claudiomargheri2087 "Fedeltà". Una serie piuttosto bruttina, ma parte della colonna sonora si salva alla grande.

[@melissam.9648]

@@claudiomargheri2087 "Fedeltà". Una serie piuttosto bruttina, ma parte della colonna sonora si salva alla grande.

[@j.b.8546]

FYI your English is perfect, pretty much lol

[@melissam.9648]

@@j.b.8546 hahah thanks. I can't never tell if it's good or bad :)

[@MrCondorAvenue]

Wonderful Elliot- there's always some comfort for me in your sad songs and this is one of them.

[@danielchristopher4155]

Last Call is a bar reference. The bar tender would usually say last call for anyone who wants another drink before closing. It's amazing how Elliott Smith wrote his songs and the titles he gave them.

[@charlessaini9442]

the bar tender Still says "last call" it's not some antiquated phrase or anything..

[@hexis23]

@@charlessaini9442 Maybe he comes from 1920

[@tobyjackman3212]

No way??

[@ilikemitchhedberg]

indeed. i suspect it is also a pretty metaphor for, you know, 'not wanting to wake up.'

[@truefunksoul8638]

It's amazing how Daniel Christopher thinks that's amazing. How is that amazing exactly? I probably would've been more amazed if Elliott didn't give this song the title Last Call, especially since he didn't go with the much more obvious Pink Elephant.

[@eminentbishop1325]

Dealing with some heavy shit and I kept hearing this song in my head like I needed to know something. Last call for real

[@deadbody]

Miss you Elliott

[@seanmatthewking]

Miss You Elliot Miss U Elliot Miss E Elliot 🤔

[@radioactive_p1ssy.boy.]

@@seanmatthewking what?

[@SeanLawlorNelson]

It's such a beautiful if troubling song. Thank you so kindly, Elliott for giving it to humanity and to me to express myself at these especially dark times of life or death protest.

[@gymrachel]

Fuck yeah! Brilliant lyrics, so poignant 🎶 'You're an icicle You're a tongueless talker, You don't care what you say, You're a jaywalker and you just just walk away And that's all you do'.... Ultimate rejection and punch in the gut song!

[@slimmoon2994]

I'll sing the praises of my Maker's name like I was as good as She made me and I wanted Her to tell me that She would never wake me...I'm lying here waiting for sleep to overtake me.

[@noahport3314]

love the swirling beatley electric guitar that comes in at the start

[@tillbrainman6049]

3:31- loop this and dive into the harmonies, then go and do the same for Saint Ives Heaven, also by dear Elliott Smith.

[@defstuv8682]

shhhh.

[@topdogios2271]

This song is just so relaxing to me for some reason

[@nidhiprasad4680]

Same, I've been hearing to it forawhile while trying to fall asleep.

[@trevordavis8210]

Really? For me it evokes a deep down boiling over of frustration. To each their own though haha

[@zenbuddah420]

wow. i never heard this song before from him. thanks for sharing ms. globelamp.

[@miquel3657]

You can hear a lot of Heatmiser influence here. He was still singing loud just like in Heatmiser.

[@cammcdougall4326]

He released this while still in heatmiser, a lot of the songs of Roman candle were songs that didn’t fit in with mic city sons

[@rayyhaan]

sounds cool. Nice to hear different sides of him.

[@profd65]

He was in Heatmiser, dummy. Did you hear a lot Beatles influence in John Lennon?

[@profd65]

@@DrawtheCurtains You're such a stupid fuck, how are you even able to operate a computer?

[@lilgorgo]

@@profd65 can you chill

[@alexandersahs4971]

trying to crawl under my skin when I already shed my best defense

[@mr_ozio]

this song puts me in a trance i wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me i wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me i wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me i wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me i wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me ... my cheekbones hurt

[@calabiyau9269]

Easily the best jam off roman candle

[@emeraldcity9443]

How could someone so talented die so young

[@gameshowmatt]

"La tristesse durera toujours" (The sadness will last forever) -Van Gogh's last words

[@gillross5345]

EmeraldCity drugs booze..duuuu

[@calabiyau9269]

Friends say he died years before the date his gravestone gives. The man wasn't in his right mind.

[@mrt4331]

He wanted too die he was depressed and fucked up from his meds etc he Stopped caring along time ago, at this time of Roman candle he never touched drugs he was a alcoholic though, later on near the XO and Figure 8 / basement era that's when it became full circle he wanted too die, sometimes he was just really sad one time in his self titled area he just randomly started crying in his car for no apparent reason when his friends was driving his home it's a sad story he pissed away his talent his life gone

[@sagus_mage]

There’s a high probability he was murdered by Jennifer Chiba. Look up the evidence for yourself and decide...

[@roiybenkel682]

Last call He was sick of it all Asleep at home Told you off and goodbye Well you know one day it'll come to haunt you That you didn't tell him quite the truth You're a crisis You're a icicle You're a tongueless talker You don't care what you say You're a jaywalker and you just just walk away And that's all you do The clap of the fading out sound of your shoes Made him wonder who he thought that he knew Last call He was sick of it all The endless stream of reminders Made him so sick of you sick of you sick of you Sick of your sound Sick of you coming around Trying to crawl under my skin When I already shed my best defence It comes out all around that you won And I think I'm all done You can switch me off safely While I'm lying here waiting for sleep to overtake me Yeah yeah you're still here but just check to make sure All you aspired to do was endure You can't ask for more ask for none Knowing you'll never get that which you ask for So you cast your shadow everywhere like the man in the moon You start to drink you just want to continue It'll all be yesteryear soon You start to drink you just want to continue It'll all be yesteryear soon Church bells and now I'm awake and I guess it must be some kind of holiday I can't seen to join in the celebration But I'll go to the service And I'll go to pray And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name Like I was as good as she made me And I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I'm lying here waiting for sleep to over take me

[@SeanLawlorNelson]

"One day it'll come to haunt you that you didn't tell him quite the truth." - Elliott Smith

[@grahamblackmore2632]

Anger in this awesome

[@anonymousconflict2881]

This song is just too perfect 🥲

[@RustinChole]

Hey KRS - are you guys gonna pull a rabbit out of a hat and release Basement as it was intended (as a double 30 song album with Stickman, Taking A Fall, True Love etc)? I noticed KRS is selling Basement, much to my relief. Thank you for doing such a great job keeping this guys legacy intact. New Moon was a revelation, the revamped either/or and self titled are spectacular... I wish you guys had the rights to all his music. I hate when labels milk one or two extra song on reduxes (cough)Universal/UMG(cough) for decades. I’ll never forget seeing New Moon and wondering “how did they squeeze 24 shoddy tracks out of his catalog? Must be a lot of live stuff....” then I looked at the song listing. Only KRS would release 24 studio tracks like that. Anyways. Thank you.🖤

[@KeithKeef]

Just an extreme pouring of emotion in a kinda fractured song, showing his fractured persona. brilliant. sad. But brilliant.

[@gymrachel]

This song says it all. I dedicate to a guy who messed me around. This song is for you L.

[@danavitale1952]

Always loved this song 🎉

[@gymrachel]

Fucking feel his songs so much...

[@Creature..]

Ayyaayayaaya im still here But just check to make sure :chills

[@TheIkaraCult]

Elliott just shat great songs out. He made it sound so easy.

[@blytheheintz3481]

You can't ask for more, knowing you 'll never get what you asked for

[@Militiaa]

All you aspired to do was endure You can't ask for more ask for more Knowing you'll never get that which you ask for So you cast your shadow everywhere like the man in the moon You start to drink and just want to continue It'll all be yesteryear soon You start to drink and just want to continue It'll all be yesteryear soon ...

[@seanlawlornelson9717]

"Some day it will come to haunt you that you didn't tell him quite the truth.'

[@ipsurvivor]

This is so awesome 😎...

[@lisaperkins9792]

it'll all be yesteryear soon

[@kendallgreenewalt5044]

Favorite by him

[@rockrchik99]

Heartbreaking

[@rickgriego2844]

..church bells and now I’m awake so I guess it must be some kind of holiday..CAN ANYBODY OUT THERE SAY GENIUS..

[@josephedwards4325]

R.I.P you utter, utter God.

[@kathrynlewis9108]

Really? Buono! About time.

[@SLABONECHD]

buena cancion este tambien es un temon de los mejores de este genio incomprendido

[@condecafeina]

So I'm sad again. Oh, lord.

[@moprincedesendos]

3'33" Very intense. This guy is a genius, I love Mc Cartney and Dylan but he is above

[@emilyreid278]

None of those people are overated, they're just old news compared.to Prince or Joe Strummer or Elliot Smith.

[@tillbrainman6049]

this was one of his earlier songs. its all about rejection and suicide. the ending he says he cant seem to join in the holiday celebration but that he is going to praise his maker which, turns out to be female. the final stanza where he repeats "and I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me" this she is either god as he knew it or perhaps his mother. either way, he seems to be hoping that either god never wakes him (Death) or his mother (Sleeping in to nurse a hangover). but why would he want his mother to NEVER wake him? the word NEVER implies an eternal request to not wake him, which to me, means death.

[@miquel3657]

Till Brainman Very interesting point. The song definetely has a nihilist twist and it's almost like a short story. He's probably talking about depression, suicide and death. In this order. "So sick of it all asleep at home" is a clear reference to depression, like he just wanted to sleep because everything had lost all of its sense. Then "You know one day it'll come to haunt you" could perfectly be a reference about knowing that you might end up commiting suicide if you keep this depressed. And then in the church part he could perfectly be talking about his own funeral. Waking up after the church bell is a very poetic and smart way to say that you died. And obviously he's also saying that he's not there but he's praying anyway. I personally don't like to relate Elliott's songs to this kind of stuff because I know it goes further, but damn, this song seems to be talking about it so clearly.

[@zylonandtamponhead]

it's E.S... all his songs are about self loathing, loathing others, rejection and not wanting to be here.. oh, and drugs, acting out the junkie part long b4 he ever really did dope on the reg. and it's all so very very good and well put together..

[@eminentbishop1325]

@@zylonandtamponhead nah. You just hating lol

[@lcdsebsystem]

@@zylonandtamponhead what a shallow analysis lmao , if that’s all u get from his songs then ur delusional

[@defstuv8682]

I hear The Jam toward the end

[@scrambledmegdresqlol569]

Elliott/Steven the sweet guy that loved to get in drunken brawls lol 😂

[@jackballjohnson3468]

RIP “Church bells, now I’m awake, and I guess it must be some kind of holiday…”

[@gigglymonster]

Dark af

[@corbinmadsen30]

wow

[@maria_m4904]

he remind me Curt Cobain in this song

[@sithspitdanikan4725]

Why do so many ES fans spell Kurt's name wrong? Lol, i've seen like 5 people do it today.

[@andrewwellesley8747]

@@sithspitdanikan4725 lol idk kurt cobain he was one of my other favorites

[@B_kinda]

You won

[@lucassmith4524]

Beating the goddamn streets again. Keeps my mind off the shit I shouldn't dwell on. So sick of myself. If I do enough morphine i won't care any more.

[@lucassmith4524]

And it's all dried up. All that is left is anger now. That's all I have for you sweet baby. I hope you had fun with the letter. Hope ya got a big old laugh at my expense.

[@lucassmith4524]

Still around and very little has changed. Morphine, Methadone, Meth, Hydromorphone. Give it all to me. I can take everything these small stakes streets can dish out. Sift through my WiFi. Send my friends, my best friends, against me. Turn my own mind into a paranoid trap. Set me up with your ham fisted attempts at turning me into something like you. I am not a drug dealer. I am a drug addict. From where I sit there is a big difference.

[@GaryStephens-kh9jo]

@@lucassmith4524Hey man, how are you holding up these days? Just sitting here at 2 AM high out of my mind again from amphetamines, but in my mind I know this needs to be the last time and not the time before last like all of the other times. I’m sick of the drug related compromise. Im sick of the sickness and how it rots me out from the inside out. I’m sick of burning the bridges that connected me to people that made me feel loved. Beautiful people. A beautiful woman or two that had beautiful hearts attached to their beautiful bodies, beautiful minds, and beautiful faces. From where I stand right now, Im highly certain that it’s uncertain I’ll ever get her back, my family, or myself for that matter. I feel fated to have to walk the streets in my next phase of life. Walking those streets until something comes along that leads to me dying on those said streets. Streets far far away from home. Streets that I don’t know the names of or the shortcuts to take on them. Only the short acting highs from the drugs that are shortly to cut the threads that keep me alive. It’s safe to say I’m terrified of the terrors in my mind, and if I keep thinking about them the way I always do, they’re surely to manifest into a reality… The way..: They always do. So yeah, how about you?

[@SeanLawlorNelson]

"One day it'll come to HAUNT you that you didn't tell him quite the truth." - Elliott Smith - nowhere the truth actually you embezzling liars.

[@marbleblue5127]

That guitar lead😢

[@yohandastous2586]

Personally i want to hear : I want her to tell me that she never loved me.

[@austinr.5526]

What he wrote could mean the same thing technically but probably not.. You're aloud to make his songs about you, thats important.

[@francesthemute9486]

Why is no one talking about that N BOMB at 3:24

[@intoxicduplicata]

he says "And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name" there, listen close and you'll hear it

[@roisin7102]

Be serious. 😭

[@PatrickChetland]

👏upvote👏if👏you👏make👏bad👏decisions👏

[@Nopenonameok]

I make awful decisions, but I won’t be upvoting.

[@baddestjoanna-michellesmit5578]

😚

[@sro2457]

This song sounds so Heatmiser! I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Elliott stole this little piece of art from Heatmiser's repertoire.

[@christianblad839]

he played in heatmiser!

[@eussii9195]

@@christianblad839 lmao

[@TkerIsAPimp]

he was heatmiser lmao

[@emilyreid278]

@@TkerIsAPimp I just thought that exact thing.

[@lukedonlan3515]

Shouldn't be listening ahahah

[@oskarolczak8585]

So disappointing after hearing Either/Or ;/ Like not even 3 songs are melodic here. My fav: No name no.1

[@tristanw2319]

I'd say just keep at it. Try listening to all of his stuff chronologically. It's very interesting to see his progression. Either/Or is unlike anything else, not just within Elliott's discography but anywhere. Try to take them at face value until you've listened to all of them, seeing them in the bigger picture can make you feel completely different about them.

[@halalburger267]

Roman Candle is very different to any of his later albums, FAR more raw and dark. I love it but it took me a while, definitely got into his later stuff first as it's much more accessible, especially either/or and XO (XO imo is a masterpiece, his best album and probably the best all round album I've ever heard).

[@andrzejlemonkrasol]

music doesn't have to be melodic

[@mariamman]

0:23

[@SmilePls666]

Last call He was sick of it all Asleep at home Told you off and goodbye Well you know one day it'll come to haunt you That you didn't tell him quite the truth You're a crisis You're an icicle You're a tongueless talker You don't care what you say You're a jaywalker and you just, just walk away And that's all you do The clap of the fading-out sound of your shoes Made him wonder who he thought that he knew Last call He was sick of it all The endless stream of reminders Made him so sick of you sick of you sick of you Sick of your sound Sick of you coming around Trying to crawl under my skin When I already shed my best defense It comes out all around that you won And I think I'm all done You can switch me off safely While I'm lying here waiting for sleep to overtake me Yeah yeah you're still here but just check to make sure All you aspired to do was endure You can't ask for more ask for more Knowing you'll never get that which you ask for So you cast your shadow everywhere like the man in the moon You start to drink and just want to continue It'll all be yesteryear soon You start to drink and just want to continue It'll all be yesteryear soon Church bells and now I'm awake And I guess it must be some kind of holiday I can't seem to join in the celebration But I'll go to the service And I'll go to pray And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name Like I was as good as she made me And I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me I'm lying here waiting for sleep to overtake me

[@isabellesuave5739]

Thank you for doing all these homework and sharing! ❤