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Artist: Elliott Smith
Canonical path: /elliott-smith/dead-air
Related lyric paths: 6
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Dead Air
Read Dead Air lyrics by Elliott Smith on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Dead Air
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I've been suffocating all night
Too much of nothing made me get uptight
And i get this ?????
And say it's best that you do so
Do you wanna live in a soft shell
?????
When your arms start creeping thru
When you're ashamed of what you're trying to do
Dead air
Don't let it be spoken
A record's broken,
Skipping to the words that hang in this
Dead air
And you never say nothing
Dead air between you and me
I've been suffocating all night
Too much of nothing made me get uptight
You're in a rut with your ?????
It took guts to be the dumb one
To go around brooding and tight
When you got no reason for brooding
You've become completely sick
You don't give a s***
You just wanna forget
Dead air
Don't let it be spoken
A record's broken,
Skipping to the words that hang in this
Dead air
And you never say nothing
Dead air between you and me
I've been brooding all night
I got no reason for brooding
I don't know what i'm doing
I keep trying to speak out loud
Dead air
Dead air between you and me
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Elliott Smith performs "Dead Air", and this lyric page sits inside the Elliott Smith catalog on LyroVerse.
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