Elliott Smith

the summer i was 15, i drank myself to sleep nearly every weekend. i blocked all of my troubles out for my well being, all i recall now is that this was the summer i discovered elliott. i spent all of my time sober dissecting different songs of his, finding different meanings in every word he said and relating it all back to my own life somehow. this song always stuck with me. id lay in my bed, half awake, completely wasted listening to clementine. i never processed this song entirely, i took it as it related to me. clementine was elliott singing to me personally, singing about a girl too devastated by her life and the music she cant let go of that she has to drink herself to sleep every single night.