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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 Kevin @ 2:18 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...