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Elliott Smith – I Didn't Understand (1998) | Track profile | Dork

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Elliott Smith
XO
I Didn't Understand

TRACK

I Didn't Understand

Release date: 20th August 1998

From XOTrack 142:18

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About This Track

"I Didn't Understand" is a track by Elliott Smith, from the album XO, released 20th August 1998. The track is 2:18 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith

Lyrics

I Didn't Understand

Thought you'd be looking for the next in line to love then ignore
Put out and put away
And so you'd soon be leaving me alone like I'm supposed to be tonight
Tomorrow and everyday
There's nothing here that you'll miss
I can guarantee you this is a cloud of smoke
Trying to occupy space
What a fucking joke
What a fucking joke
I waited for a bus to separate the both of us and take me off far away
From you 'cause my feelings never change a bit I always feel like shit I
Don't know why I guess that I \"just do\"
You once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of
A never-neverland and I could've gone to that place
But I didn't understand
I didn't understand
I didn't understand

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Track details

From XO

2:181998

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Album

21st August 1998

Track number

14

Release year

1998

1Sweet Adeline
3:16
2Tomorrow Tomorrow
3:07
3Waltz, No. 2 (XO)
4:40
4Baby Britain
3:14

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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 — A Passing Feeling (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:32]
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 — A Fond Farewell (from From a Basement on the Hill) [3:58]
Elliott Smith — Don't Go Down (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:34]
Elliott Smith — A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:35]
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 — 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 — Twilight (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:30]
Elliott Smith — King's Crossing (from From a Basement on the Hill) [4:58]
Elliott Smith — Shooting Star (from From a Basement on the Hill) [6:02]
Elliott Smith — Memory Lane (from From a Basement on the Hill) [2:31]
Elliott Smith — Color Bars (from Figure 8) [2:20]
Elliott Smith — Easy Way Out (from Figure 8) [2:44]
Elliott Smith — Pretty Mary Kay (from Figure 8) [2:36]
Elliott Smith — Son of Sam (from Figure 8) [3:04]
Elliott Smith — Everything Means Nothing to Me (from Figure 8) [2:23]
Elliott Smith — Can't Make a Sound (from Figure 8) [4:15]
Elliott Smith — In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)/The Roost (from Figure 8) [4:33]
Elliott Smith — Somebody That I Used to Know (from Figure 8) [2:09]
Elliott Smith — L.A. (from Figure 8) [3:14]
Elliott Smith — Junk Bond Trader (from Figure 8) [3:50]
Elliott Smith — Happiness/The Gondola Man (from Figure 8) [5:04]
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]
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2:45 AmEither/Or
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11Bottle Up and Explode!

12A Question Mark

13Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands

14I Didn't Understand

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