Everything Means Nothing To Me

Elliott Smith

Appears On:

• Marty Willson-Piper - Rarities (2018), Track 8
• Compilations Featuring Marty Willson-Piper:
  • Remote Memory: A Tribute To Elliott Smith (2006?)

Hear this track at The Mood Maidens MySpace page. The Mood Maidens are Sophie Hutchings (Bluebottle Kiss/Hitchcocks Regret) on piano, Sophie Glasson (The Starboard Cast) on cello and Amanda Brown (The Go Betweens/Cleopatra Wong/Love Me) on violin. This track also has Tracy Ellis from Knievel on bass and Marty Willson-Piper on vocals & drums (not guitar).
The original Elliott Smith version appeared on his album Figure 8.

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Lyrics (unofficial)

Someone found the future as a statue in a fountain
At attention looking backward in a bowl of water
Wishes with a blue songbird on his shoulder
Who keeps singing over everything
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me

I picked up the song and found the picture in the paper
The reflection in the water shouted are you men
Still trying to salute people from a time
When he was everything he's supposed to be
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me