Can't Make A Sound

Elliott Smith · Figure 8 [2000]

I have become a silent movie

the hero killed the clown



can't make a sound



nobody knows what he's doing

still hanging around



can't make a sound



the slow motion moves me

the monologue means nothing to me



bored in a role, but he can't stop

standing up to sit back down

and lose the one thing found

spinning the world like a toy top

till there's a ghost in every town



can't make a sound



eyes locked and shining

can't you tell me what's happening?



why should you want any other, when you're a world within a world?