Elliott Smith - Trouble

Elliott Smith's unreleased cover of "Trouble" by Cat Stevens

[@natmuthify]

My brother had "favorited" this video about a year and a half ago, and told my dad about this cover and singer. We lost my brother through an unexpected accident in October of last year. Listening to this song reminds me of those we've lost too soon, as well as the tribulations their loved ones must go through when they are left behind. Nothing is left the same. Elliot must have been a beautiful person. Such a wonderful video, and such an honor to have known this song, even without knowing him.

[@bennettwoltz]

I lost my brother too last July.

[@bnrjnnn1781]

Bennett Woltz sorry to hear that dude

[@Trenzalore-gn6xq]

natmuthify man I can’t even imagine losing my brother, I’m so sorry for your loss

[@ronbar4192]

I hope we all lost out brothers one day

[@_dreamscape]

I am here to say elliott’s voice gets us through grief and very special, special people are elliott fans.

[@bennettwoltz]

This is a banger to cry to.

[@andreawaterstreet3901]

Such an apt song of Cat Stevens for him to cover. I only saw Elliott Smith play once. He was sitting in with Grandaddy at a show in SF at the Warfield--some time in the early 2000s. He played, or tried to play a solo acoustic version of Needle in the Hay, but he was clearly out of his head--looked to be smacked out--and he couldn't play the intricate guitar parts--kept starting and stopping. Thankfully, the guys in Grandaddy stepped in and started playing the part for him, allowing him just to sing, which he did like an angel. Such a tortured life--I'm eternally grateful that he gifted us with his brilliance whilst enduring such spiritual pain.

[@neilefc877]

Thanks so much for this post Andrea. It must have been both wonderful and heartbreaking to have seen him play back then. But at least you got to see him play live :)

[@GodInTheMachine]

thanks h20st. i got to see him once in Lower Alcatraz and he played like he had already broken the knife off in his heart. it was difficult to watch. thankfully i was in the same boat as he and don't remember much.

[@WachaDrop]

Thank you for sharing such a heartfelt experience. I love both Elliott and Grandaddy, it would've been a pleasure to have seen them both live.

[@oblivion2967]

I just got screwed on my last paycheck from work and it's so good to hear real stories, instead of corporate greed and petty annoyances.

[@poorpremenstrualdarling]

He may not have been smacked out... Could have just been suffering mentally. Can appear the same 😔😢

[@paulstephens7949]

I could be wrong, I am fairly sure this was Elliott's final recording in his lifetime. Recorded about a week before his passing. Adds more of a haunting element to the final line of the song... " i don't want no fighting, and i haven't got alot of time"

[@danielchristopher4155]

Elliott had always picked the best songs to do covers with.

[@42pigs]

this is what music was meant for. absolutely soul clutching.

[@saharab4431]

beautiful beyond words

[@blakehudson6409]

I listened to his music through out my teens and starting of adulthood. Elliott helped me with life. I wish he was still here.

[@ManuelR23]

Me too.

[@bacardi119]

I fucking love his version of this song. Miss him a lot, man.

[@brianmata3337]

+bacardi119 me too

[@yuriydisman6829]

Me too, very much

[@duffyalverson1918]

bacardi119 amazing singer songwriter breaks my heart he left us way too soon

[@juliadoe2522]

I think this song was always meant for him

[@baklava24]

its official- he is the most beautiful artist i have yet discovered

[@bellathedog-fu8ny]

Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it’s too much too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can’t you see You’re eating my heart away And there’s nothing much left of me I’ve drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won’t you be fair So won’t you be fair I don’t want no more of you So won’t you be kind to me Just let me go where I’ll have to go there Trouble Oh trouble move away I have seen your face And it’s too much for me today Trouble Oh trouble can’t you see You have made me a wreck Now won’t you leave me in my misery I’ve seen your eyes And I can see death’s disguise Hangin’ on me Hangin’ on me I’m beat, I’m torn Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh trouble move from me I have paid my debt Now won’t you leave me in my misery Trouble Oh trouble please be kind I don’t want no fight And I haven’t got a lot of time

[@sandersson1]

Really captured the original version and improved it!

[@jiluminou]

thinking of you on New Year's, Elliott.

[@averagejohnson3985]

You he's dead right? And even if he were alive, it is doubtful he would come across a random comment under one of his lesser known songs

[@xxmyharturhandzxx]

@@averagejohnson3985 we know he's gone. kinda insesitve :((

[@Cauldronofbats666]

new years 2021. thinking of him.

[@Kawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww]

@@averagejohnson3985 What does that have to do with anything?

[@dreiproductions]

it's on the 'Thumbsucker' soundtrack... i love this song! i love this cover!

[@FENWAY14]

Brilliant!!! I usually don't like other people covering Steven's music but this was PERFECT

[@asa.8691]

The funny thing is that elliot’s original name was Steven

[@bubblyanarchist77]

Could this be more perfect?

[@ethansummerhaysdrums]

my heart is so broken

[@craftylibrarian75]

From a favorite Movie

[@a.estrada]

Esta canción de Elliott, después de su cover de All my Rowdy friends, es de mis favoritas por una anécdota que tuve al respecto. Vivía bastante afligido debido a que, jamás llegaré a conocerlo ni a escucharlo en vivo. En una ocasión, tuve la oportunidad de hacer ácido y durante mi viaje escuchaba música en aleatorio... De pronto, en mis alucinaciones, yo estaba acostado boca arriba en un estudio de grabación, escuchaba los pasos de alguien desde atrás y llegaba a sentarse detrás de mi cabeza, esta canción sonaba entonces, y ahi estaba, Elliott sentado detrás cantando, una lágrima brotó de mis ojos, no tendré la oportunidad de escucharlo en vivo pero el ácido me dejo un recuerdo de él cantando para mí. Claro, no he vuelto a consumir tal sustancia desde entonces, creo que en el fondo, quiero quedarme con esa experiencia hasta que el destino llame.

[@oelefante]

tremendo cuento

[@__q_______.24]

So good

[@JCBigCat]

well played, sir, well played...

[@DashSpaceski]

Miss you Elliott

[@bennettwoltz]

What beauty

[@plowthor]

The vocals are great

[@Dantheman1037]

I was disappointed with this song at first as it didn't live up to my expectations of cat steven's version but as it's Elliott Smith I stuck with it, now I love it just as much but in a different way.

[@navarino94]

@tripitydoda i think is just double tracking vocals with a little delay

[@ceceliaumphlett6360]

Cat Stevens, of course.:-)

[@E-Brightvoid]

Joel Haver used a cover of this song to great effect in a video. It hits like a truck

[@samlabelle4611]

damn....

[@ceceliaumphlett6360]

omg..I forgot he'd covered this song.

[@jmcdonald350]

Who did this originally?

[@Tarreeeee]

cat stevens

[@bBbKce]

This is real music Elliott....

[@Rocky-ve9iv]

❤

[@dannykalei]

this is so fucking good

[@IndigoGale-jm1hz]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@marcosjeofla]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@gavinmartin3919]

crazy talent this guy. sadly to say the more sad he was the more creative he became

[@IndigoGale-jm1hz]

Hey upload more like this? ❤

[@kauffmann101]

I love this version than Cat Steven's one. E.S. always play much better than the originator in the covers

[@MrMrrRNELLi]

not a single one. amazing huh? he is like that in every song

[@piv193]

its tuned a half step down

[@mikeyg923]

YOUNG DILL

[@Topspin89]

So damn depressing listening to this song, it's like it was made for Elliott. One of the last songs he ever recorded, and according to his girlfriend, he'd cry recording it. There's the ironic fact that the song has the same title of another cover Elliott did by his one-time friend, Jon Brion, whom he collaborated with for years until Elliott stupidly became a junkie. There's also the fact that Cat Stevens' last name is the same as Elliott's real first name except with an 's' at the end. Finally, there's the fact that the last line says "I don't want no fight, and I haven't got a lot of time," which was true for Elliott because he died only a few weeks after recording this song, and I believe it was a suicide. 😢

[@8ballwil]

Why is there a picture of him playing the piano when he is playing guitar on the song!?

[@MiguelHernandez-ui8cd]

That's clearly a piano

[@matr1xsystems]

Sounds like a guitar to me

[@andrewkeene6555]

does he use an open tuning for this??

[@kamikaze2613]

probably a long time but original is played half step down and this sounds the same

[@terminalbungus9566]

Doubt it, sounds like fairly normal, first- position chords here.

[@mikehoover7430]

Lol trying to make sense of everything and making expectations = trouble

[@htownallday281]

Why is your avatar a HS graduation photo of some weirdo from the 80's?

[@mariamman]

So Beatles coded