Elliott Smith - Memory Lane Lyrics
This is the placeYou end up whenYou lose the chaseWhere you're dragged against your willFrom a basement on the hillAnd all anybody knows isYou're not like themThey kick you in the headAnd send you back to bedIsolation pulled you past a tunnel to aBright world where you can make a place to stayBut everybody's scared of this placeThey're staying awayYour little house on memory laneThe mayor's name is fearHis force patrols the pierFrom a mountain of clicheThat advances everydayThe doctor spoke of cloudHe rained out loudYou'll keep the doors and windows shutAnd swearYou'll never show a soul againBut isolation pushes you ‘til every muscle achesDown the only road it ever takesBut everybody's scared of this placeThey're staying awayYour little house on memory laneIf it's your decisionTo be open about yourselfBe careful or elseBe careful or elseI'm comfortable apartIt's all written on my chartThat I take what's given to meMost cooperativelyI do what people sayAnd lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrifiedI hope you're satisfiedIsolation pushes past self-hatred, guilt, and shameTo a place where suffering’s just a gameBut everybody's scared of this placeThey're staying awayYour little house on memory laneYour little house on memory lane
