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Elliott Smith – I Can't Answer You Anymore (2012) | Track profile | Dork

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Elliott Smith
Grand Mal: Studio Rarities
I Can't Answer You Anymore

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I Can't Answer You Anymore

Release date: 4th April 2012

From Grand Mal: Studio Rarities

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"I Can't Answer You Anymore" is a track by Elliott Smith, from the album Grand Mal: Studio Rarities, released 4th April 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

I Can't Answer You Anymore

Something came from nothing today

While I was saying no

Well, don't you knock on my door

I can't answer you anymore

Absence makes the heart grow fond

Of staying away from people

It was a question before

But I can't answer you anymore

Skipped to the scene where we meet

And wrote a song

I did everything right for somebody that

Does everything wrong

So I go from coast to coast

Over the Hawthorne Bridge

To the one I adore

You asked me what I'm looking for

But I can't answer you anymore

No, I can't answer you anymore

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Track details

From Grand Mal: Studio Rarities

2012

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Grand Mal: Studio Rarities

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Writer: Elliott Smith
Producer: Elliott Smith, Rob Schnapf, Tom Rothrock