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Big Problem Tab

by Elliott Smith


CAPO 5

				
The problem I have with the soul contraption
				
Swallowed up slowly like a bad reaction
				
All around what you do and say
				
Well the symptom falls further away
				
You live in silence but you can't describe it
				
So what's the point of talking at all?
				
The store bought injury.. the family cane
				
Just another boy bad at the game
									
This is when you need a friend to keep you moving around
				
'Cause all your thinking has made you slow
				
You might be stopping out.. you know

                    
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
				
There's a lit fuse smoking.. you caught instead
                    
What you're dealing.. but it's just a start
				
Was a time since your problem was a poison dart
                    
And you act like a cowboy.. whatever's in my hat
				
I'm a hardboiled hero and I'm not so bad
                    
But I didn't know when to run from this

				
A proud fan is gonna see you shatter
				
I know that there really isn't anything the matter
				
Nothing is gonna be crying words..
				
They only want their voice to be heard
				
They use it sometimes to show that they're around
				
Or they build you up a theory like the walls of a town
				
A tired and ancient ruler right now..
				
The neighborhood slaves are hardly skilled

                    
Open your parachute and drop your weight
				
Float on down to the center and investigate
                    
I did my self requirement
				
Better cop out hard or I'll leave right now
                    
'Cause this feeling of loving I felt it in my chest
				
Like the nighttime footsteps of an unknown guest
                    
I know it wasn't me.. I wasn't moving..

				
I felt thunder.. the rain was pouring
				
I know it must be something wrong all this is restoring
				
You don't have to live in a life's mistake
				
Stay in the center and wait
				
Stay in the center and wait
				
Stay in the center and wait.