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Artist: Elliott Smith
Canonical path: /elliott-smith/placeholder
Related lyric paths: 6
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Placeholder
Read Placeholder lyrics by Elliott Smith on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Placeholder
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looking at all the rows
all these records look like big zeros
got your picture on the back of a forty-five
a placeholder till you take up mine
a placeholder till you take up mine
i'm the person you'll never need
the biggest loser on sixteenth street
the invisible man with the see-through mind
a placeholder till you take up mine
a placeholder till you take up mine
break off of in someone's laughter
you can tell right there
he's still a square
he likes the way that you look now
like an open book
just like my favorite song
some pretty words that didn't last that long
like a package sent priority overnight
placeholder come and take up mine
placeholder come and take up mine
placeholder come and take up mine
placeholder come and take up mine
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Elliott Smith performs "Placeholder", and this lyric page sits inside the Elliott Smith catalog on LyroVerse.
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