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Sunday, May 16, 2004
When Desperate Static Beats the Silence Up...

For those of you going to see Ben Folds this summer at the Central Park show, you might want to head over to this site and download a show he recently did last month at Foellinger Auditorium in Illinois.

It features a new song entitled Late, which Ben wrote as a tribute to the late Elliott Smith. It's a heartbreaker.

Late
Under some dirty words on a dirty wall
Eating takeout by myself
I play the shows
Got back in the van and put the walkman on
And you were playing

In some other time a thousand miles away
I played a thousand times before
And like pathetic stars, the truck stops and the rock club walls
I always knew
You saw them too
But you never will again

It's too late
Don't you know
It's been too late
For a long time

Elliot, man, you played a fine guitar
And some dirty basketball
The songs you wrote
Got me through a lot
Just wanna tell you that

But it's too late

It's too late
Don't you know
it's been too late
for a long time

No, no
Things were looking up
Least that's what I heard
No, no
Someone came and washed away your hard-earned
Piece of mind

When desperate static beats the silence up
A quiet truth to calm you down
The songs you wrote
Got me through a lot
Just wanna tell ya...

Oh, but it's too late

It's too late
Don't you know?
It's been too late
For a long time.

// posted by Kluv @ 5:18 PM (0) comments

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Sunday, May 16, 2004 When Desperate Static Beats the Silence Up...

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When Desperate Static Beats the Silence Up...