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I got tired of doing battle with people thinking i was a little weird because i wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. the only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. people who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. is there a most people? i don't know. television makes it seem like there is, but i think that might just be television.

-Elliott Smith

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I Got Tired Of Doing Battle With

Elliott Smith

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking i was a little weird because i wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. the only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. people who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. is there a most people? i don't know. television makes it seem like there is, but i think that might just be television.

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So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

People have said over the years that the reason i did not give up my seat was because i was tired. i did not think of being physically tired. my feet were not hurting. i was tired in a different way. i was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. i was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. i was tired of jim crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

I do remember, one time, a man came to me after the students began to work in mississippi and he said the white people were getting tired and they were getting tense and anything might happen. well, i asked him "how long he thinks we had been getting tired"? i have been tired for 46 years and my parents was tired before me and their parents were tired, and i have always wanted to do something that would help some of the things i would see going on among negroes that i didn't like and i don't like now.

You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about hollywood.

You can't have anything valuable in your house. niggers will break in and take it all! everything white people don't like about black people, black people don't like about black people. it's like our own personal civil war. on one side, there's black people. on the other, you've got niggers. the niggers have got to go. i love black people, but i hate niggers. i am tired of niggers. tired, tired, tired.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. you have to make the mind run the body. never let the body tell the mind what to do. the body will always give up. it is always tired morning, noon, and night. but the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. when you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... you've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

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