Elliott Smith - Go By lyrics

Go on, parade and fade
Hit the scene and slow
Spending all your time with some girl
You'll never get to know wound up tight
Dressed all in white some torn mainsail
Blowing out to drift leave you even if

You live up in your head
Scared of every little noise
Someone always breaking in accidentally
Using nothing but their voice
Shrill and small, echo down the hall
Repeating pet names
See it in your eyes, you're only passing by

Go by go by
Go by go by

Someone's in the way
Of pretty words and inside slurs
All the things they have to say
To perform the work that they've rehearsed
It's a waste of time
I'd put it behind me once and for all
And let the hype decline
If the problem wasn't mine

Go by go by
Go by go by
Go by go by
Go by go by