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Elliott Smith – A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free (2004) | Track profile | Dork

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Elliott Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free

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A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free

Release date: 17th October 2004

From From a Basement on the HillTrack 15

4:35

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"A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free" is a track by Elliott Smith, from the album From a Basement on the Hill, released 17th October 2004. The track is 4:35 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below.

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Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith

Lyrics

A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free

I'm floating in a black balloon
O.D. on Easter afternoon
My mama told me, "Baby stay clean,
There's no in between."

But all you ladies and you gentlemen
Between's all you've ever seen or been
Fit poorly and arrange the sight
Doll it up in virgin white

You disappoint me
You people raking in on the world
The Devil's scrip sells
You the heart of a blackbird

Shine on me baby
'Cause it's raining in my heart

Sun's rising on a choppy glare
Rain dropping acid bought up in the air
A distorted reality is now a necessity
To be free

It's so disappointing
At first I put it all down to luck
God knows why my
Country don't give a fuck, fuck

Shine on me baby
'Cause it's raining in my heart
Shine on me baby
'Cause it's raining in my heart

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Track details

From From a Basement on the Hill

4:352004

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Album

From a Basement on the Hill

18th October 2004

Track number

15

Release year

2004

1Coast To Coast
5:35
2Let's Get Lost
2:27
3Pretty (Ugly Before)
4:46
4Don't Go Down

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Elliott Smith — Some Song (Live at Umbra Penumbra - September 17th, 1994)
Elliott Smith — Pretty (Ugly Before) (live at Largo)
Elliott Smith — Memory Lane (from From a Basement on the Hill) [2:31]
Elliott Smith — Twilight (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:30]
Elliott Smith — Little One (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:15]
Elliott Smith — Coast To Coast (from From a Basement on the Hill) [5:35]
Elliott Smith — Pretty (Ugly Before) (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:46]
Elliott Smith — Shooting Star (from From a Basement on the Hill) [6:02]
Elliott Smith — King's Crossing (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:58]
Elliott Smith — Don't Go Down (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:34]
Elliott Smith — A Passing Feeling (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:32]
Elliott Smith — A Fond Farewell (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:58]
Elliott Smith — Ostrich and Chirping (from From a Basement on the Hill) [0:34]
Elliott Smith — The Last Hour (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:28]
Elliott Smith — Let's Get Lost (from From a Basement on the Hill) [2:27]
Elliott Smith — Strung Out Again (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:13]
Elliott Smith — Everything Means Nothing to Me (from Figure 8) [2:23]
Elliott Smith — L.A. (from Figure 8) [3:14]
Elliott Smith — Better Be Quiet Now (from Figure 8) [3:35]
Elliott Smith — Bye (from Figure 8) [1:53]
Elliott Smith — Stupidity Tries (from Figure 8) [4:24]
Elliott Smith — Wouldn't Mama Be Proud (from Figure 8) [3:26]
Elliott Smith — Everything Reminds Me of Her (from Figure 8) [2:38]
Elliott Smith — Junk Bond Trader (from Figure 8) [3:50]
Elliott Smith — Happiness/The Gondola Man (from Figure 8) [5:04]
Elliott Smith — Easy Way Out (from Figure 8) [2:44]
Elliott Smith — Pretty Mary Kay (from Figure 8) [2:36]
Elliott Smith — Somebody That I Used to Know (from Figure 8) [2:09]
Elliott Smith — Can't Make a Sound (from Figure 8) [4:15]
Elliott Smith — Color Bars (from Figure 8) [2:20]
Elliott Smith — Son of Sam (from Figure 8) [3:04]
Elliott Smith — In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)/The Roost (from Figure 8) [4:33]
Elliott Smith — Happiness
Elliott Smith — Waltz #2 (XO)
Elliott Smith — Pitseleh (from XO) [3:23]
Elliott Smith — Waltz, No. 2 (XO) (from XO) [4:40]
Elliott Smith — Bottle Up and Explode! (from XO) [2:58]
Elliott Smith — Tomorrow Tomorrow (from XO) [3:07]
Elliott Smith — Independence Day (from XO) [3:05]
Elliott Smith — I Didn't Understand (from XO) [2:18]
Elliott Smith — Bled White (from XO) [3:23]
Elliott Smith — A Question Mark (from XO) [2:41]
Elliott Smith — Baby Britain (from XO) [3:14]
Elliott Smith — Waltz, No. 1 (from XO) [3:22]
Elliott Smith — Amity (from XO) [2:20]
Elliott Smith — Sweet Adeline (from XO) [3:16]
Elliott Smith — Oh Well, OK (from XO) [2:33]
Elliott Smith — Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands (from XO) [4:25]
Elliott Smith — Alameda (from Either/Or) [3:43]
Elliott Smith — Angeles (from Either/Or) [2:57]
Elliott Smith — 2:45 Am (from Either/Or) [3:19]
Elliott Smith — Speed Trials (from Either/Or) [3:03]
Elliott Smith — Ballad of Big Nothing (from Either/Or) [2:48]
Elliott Smith — Pictures of Me (from Either/Or) [3:47]
Elliott Smith — Rose Parade (from Either/Or) [3:28]
Elliott Smith — Punch and Judy (from Either/Or) [2:25]
Elliott Smith — Say Yes (from Either/Or) [2:21]
Elliott Smith — Cupid's Trick (from Either/Or) [3:05]
Elliott Smith — No Name No. 5 (from Either/Or) [3:43]
Elliott Smith — Between the Bars (from Either/Or) [2:21]
Elliott Smith — Division Day / No Name #6
Elliott Smith — Needle in the Hay
Elliott Smith — Shytown / No Confidence Man

2:45 AmEither/Or
3:19
A Fond FarewellFrom a Basement on the Hill
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A Passing FeelingFrom a Basement on the Hill
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A Question MarkXO
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AlamedaEither/Or
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AmityXO
2:20
AngelesEither/Or
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3:14
Ballad of Big NothingEither/Or
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5Strung Out Again

6A Fond Farewell

7King's Crossing

8Ostrich and Chirping

10A Passing Feeling

11The Last Hour

12Shooting Star

15A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free

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