Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands - Elliott Smith

Everybody cares, everybody understands

Yes everybody cares about you

Yeah, and whether or not you want them to

It’s a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head

To a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally

And a quiet lie that makes you want to scream and shout

So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun

Raining its guiding light upon everyone

For a moment’s rest you can lean against the banister

After running upstairs again and again

From wherever they came to fix you in, but

All this fair city’s finest follow right behind

You’ve got a pretty vision in your head

A pencil full of poison lead

And a sickened smile illegal in every town

So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun

Raining its guiding light upon everyone

Here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun

Raining its guiding light upon everyone

You say you mean well, you don’t know what you mean

Fucking oughta stay the hell away from things you know nothing about