ELLIOTT SMITH LYRICS - Sweet Adeline

"Sweet Adeline"



Cut this picture into you and me

Burn it backwards, kill this history

Make it over, make it stay away

Or hate'll say the ending that love started to stay



There's a kid a floor below me saying brother can you spare

Sunshine for a brother, old man winter's in the air

Walked me up a story, asking how you are

Told me not to worry, you were just a shooting star



Sweet Adeline

Sweet Adeline

My Clementine

Sweet Adeline



It's a picture-perfect evening and I'm staring down the sun

Fully loaded, deaf and dumb and done

Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head

Or any situation where I'm better off than dead