Elliott Smith - St. Ides Heaven (from Elliott Smith) 

Check out this rare live footage of Elliott's 1999 New Year's Eve performance at The Knitting Factory: ru-vid.com/group/PL6KwzgIePF4Dy7347Om6Ijcsr4vh6JJjP

"i want the loudest part of the mix to be me sliding my fingers across the strings.." - elliott smith

To this day... the chorus still gives me chills

The way he couples such hard hitting words with such simple sympathetic chords string me up bad. Used to walk out nights looking at the sky, listening to elliott on repeat. Feeling both invincible yet broken.

If you ever learn the chords to an Elliott Smith song you open up a world of music. Shapes that don't appear in Mel Bay books, chromaticism that turns your ear upside down. Once you get over that hurdle you realize the songcraft involved and witness that he went to great (and often painful) lengths to perform them with equal temperament each and every time. No question that his contribution to songwriting and even his acoustic guitar technique will be around for generations.

I hope he found happiness wherever his soul is rn

Everyone is a fucking pro, and they all got answers from trouble they know...

This is my favorite Elliott Smith song. I kept a shrine up in my room for about a year for him. I've lost a lot of people I've loved, but he is the only one I had a shrine to. Don't know why.

Everything is exactly right When I walk around here drunk every night With an open container from 7-11 In St. Ides heaven I've been out haunting the neighbourhood And everybody can see I'm no good When I'm walking out between parked cars With my head full of stars High on amphetamines The moon is a light bulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone You think you know what brings me down That I want those things you could never allow You see me smiling you think it's a frown Turned upside down ‘Cause everyone is a fucking pro And they all got answers from trouble they've known And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do Though they don't have a clue High on amphetamines The moon is a light bulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone And I won't come down for anyone

i shouldn’t be crying at 5am listening to this...gonna havva beer i guess

My favorite Elliott Smith song right now.

2:44 this ending with the other voice for behind is one of the most emotional and beautiful endings i ever heard.

i had a bad shroom trip a while ago and listening to say yes 50 times in a row (not exaggerating) was the only thing that kept me from freaking out so i could just coast thru the rest of it and come down elliott smith is so important to me and so many other people and his self titled alone is a testament to how much power art, even stripped back, can have on someone sorry if this is incoherent im very high v

I come back to this song every time I'm so fucking done with everything.

This song is EXACTLY the way I felt at UT in Texas, grad school. I literally walked down to Store 24, and got glares from the old ladies watering their lawns on my way back. The joy in this song is so perfect!

Brilliant composition in the first place, and I do enjoy the live versions, but Rebecca Gates' harmonizing really sends this above and beyond into "indelible chills" territory. Definitely one of his best.

Sitting out under the stars. Drinking a bottle of St. Ides to this song.

The moon is a light bulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone And I won't come down for anyone ...

This song alone makes his s/t my fav album

This is the best song ever written about getting drunk on malt liquor and smoking meth.

Elliot smiths genius compositions have the ability to make me feel like I’m floating, even though my feet are on the ground. Beautiful man, beautiful mind. R.I.P Elliot

This song has always been 'a favorite' from my favorite Elliott album. But if I'm honest with myself, I think it's my favorite ES song. Can't really choose, but this one has always stood out to me and never gets old.

Because we LOVE YOU, Elliott!!

elliott smith is honestly the only person whose ever there when nobody else is.

I feel like the message of this song is you really don't understand what people have/can go through, until you've been to "St Ides Heaven"

Love you elliott.

song hits way too close to home. so beautiful and poignant. elliott is a musical genius.

Been in them st ides clouds before but you can't seem to find the ides on the liquor store shelves much anymore.... love what you brang to humanity Elliott..... much love and always may you rest among the gods!!

I used to drink St ides with my old crack dealer. he got shot and killed in a drive by. this song is rough.

"High on amphetamines" This song is absolutely poetic and huanting. Elliott's lyrics and guitar playing are amazing.

Always and forever the most beautiful song ever written

One of my favorites of his.

this song is so perfect ❤️❤️❤️

love you so much elliott, thanks for always being here. hope youre doing okay

I used to have a few beers and listen to this song while an NA meeting was going on behind the bench I was sitting on in the park.

This song gives me intense chills just like any Elliott smith song. I’m so glad I found this treasure a couple years back.

my best friend told me she thinks of me when she hears this and i cry thinking about it often

2:09- fun harmonies.

One of my favs to play on geetar.

What a revelation it was to know I wasn’t alone

Man i fucking love this song

How can people dislike it ..

The perfect song

This is mixed a little differently than the version I have on CD. I like it. I think the vocals have an extra backing track in this version.

itll go around with anyone but wont come down for anyone

reminds me of the drunk dayz of my youth... respect elliott

I can say after a little incident today: this song is so good I feel of my bike

‘cause everyone is a fucking pro, and they all got answers from troubles they’ve known and they all got to say what you should or shouldn’t do though they don’t have a clue

I can't believe it took me until now to realize there's a woman providing vocals with Elliot! 😅 it's so eerie how seamlessly their faint voices merge together.

I Love to Play and sing along to this honey-pie of the genious Master !!!111337!

I miss him.

Brilliant

May be my favorite song ever. Describes me

Ironic that his intervention was held at Rebecca Gates' place in Chicago. She sings backing vocals on this. The intervention inspired "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands" and "I Didn't Understand".

Everything is exactly right When I walk around here drunk every night With an open container from 7-11 In st. ides heaven I've been out haunting the neighborhood And everybody can see I'm no good When I'm walking out between parked cars With my head full of stars High on amphetamines The moon is a lightbulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone You think you know what brings me down That I want those things you could never allow You see me smiling you think it's a frown Turned upside down 'Cause everyone is a fucking pro And they all got answers from trouble they've known And they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do Though they don't have a clue High on amphetamines The moon is a lightbulb breaking It'll go around with anyone But it won't come down for anyone And I won't come down for anyone

I love pullin this :)

Allow the love

This song brings make memories of a counselor I used to go to. FUCK is this powerful!!

So true with my paat and all other with luck

❤️

This song is more addicting than amphetamines.

Awesome interface.

fuckkkkkk dude. ive been there........

Great harmonies with the female vocalist, not sure who it is, though. Listened to this song a hundred times and just noticed it.

'They all gotta say what you should and shouldn't do; though they don't have a clue.'

2pac and dre did a commercial for st ides back in 1996 look it up on RU-vid

too fucking good

this song perfectly captures what being high on stimulants feels like lmao

A drunk knows

It seems excruciatingly apt that I'm listening to this song at a library in Phoenix while finishing my vodka drink - no malt liquor like St. Ides available here (not that I'd choose to drink it. I prefer PBR. It was good enough for Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet").

I won't come down for anyone.......

Oh man, when he hits that low open D chord in the verse

I think this is his most Alex G sounding song

happy birthday buddy, we miss you dearly :'(

guys I'm the 3000th like. I know no one cares I just thought it was pretty cool

And I won't come down for anyone

I relate to this song more than I should... but I'm not a kid anymore and luckily don't take amphetamines anymore.

✨

Danny Mullen

yes this is BE(a)ST

wassam cuddy

I've known those people he sings of.

....and everybody can see I am no good(paranoid). When I'm walking out between parked cars(losing normal safe behavior) With my head full of stars(days awake) ......He is paranoid; you start thinking people care about you when they don't. With my head full of stars..... The stars and visuals start after you have not sleep for more then 3 or 4 days. Close your eyes. Stars. Open them; stars. Diiiiilated eyyyyessss. My eyes are dilated because I'm Highhhhhh on Ampetanminessss.............. It wont come down and go to sleep even with bottle after bottle of St Ides malt liqure...... because I'm highhhhh on Ampetaminessss. and I simply want to goooooo to sleeppppppp

Rati over Kali! DONT LET THE FLAME DIE OUT!!!

Fuckin shit, the moon is a lightbulb breaking?

For breaking. IT WON'T COME DOWN.... for … anyone....

2:10

I think he's talking about smoking meth out of a lightbulb , in a really beautiful way .

St Ides

💔 those amphetamines will rob you of the little light that’s left.

female singer is Rebecca Gates

He must know my girl Mo

I think kurt. Cobain would have liked this

like

Here because of Every Anxious Wave

If only Elliott Smith lived longer.....who knows the kind of stuff that he could have done if he lived longer. :( What a shame.

This used to be a Reckful emo song FeelsBadMan

Daniel James Brian Mullen

Danny mullen brought me here

Who else on speed now?