Elliott Smith Condor Avenue Lyrics

Condor Avenue Lyrics

she took the oldsmobile out past condor avenue

and she locked the car and
slipped past

into rhythmic quietude

lights burning

voice dry
and hoarse

i threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth

the chimes fell over each other

i fell onto my knees

the sound
of the car driving off made me feel diseased

a sick shouting like you
hear at the fairground

now i'm picking up to put away anything of your's
that's still around

i don't know what to do with your clothes or your
letters

it'll make a whisper out of you 

she took the oldsmobile
out past condor avenue

the fairground's lit

a drunk man sits by the
gate she's driving through

got his hat tipped bottle back in between his
teeth

looks like he's buried in the sand at the beach

i can't think
about you driving off to leave barely awake

to take a little nap while the
road is straight

i wish that car had never been discovered 

they
took away the bottle and the hat he was under

that's the one thing that
he could never do

and it'll make a whisper out of you

she took the
oldsmobile out past condor avenue

cops were running around the scene

looking for some kind of clue

they never get uptight when a moth gets
crushed

unless a light bulb really loved him very much

i'm lying
down

blowing smoke from my cigarette 

little whisper smoke signs
that you'll never get

you're in your oldsmobile driving by the moon

headlights burning bright ahead of you

and someone's burning out, out
on condor avenue

trying to make a whisper out of you

what a shitty
thing to say

did you really mean it?

you never said a word to me
about what passed between us

so now i'm leaving you alone

you can
do whatever the hell yo