‘I’m hallucinating’ tells everything about his reality, as if he did not want to completely believe what happened.Ģ. There is almost one full minute of guitar strumming at the end, without no lyrics, an unusual thing for Elliott, may be a way to extend the emotion and to allow him to calm down after the terrible climax of the song.

The song is viscerally raw and the pain is palpable. ‘Roman Candle’: The titled song is probably the most hurtful song of the album to listen to, because it is directly referring to his childhood abuse with lines like ‘I want to hurt him/I want to give him pain/I'm a roman candle/my head is full of flames’. In 2010, a remastered version of ‘Roman Candle’ by Larry Crane was re-released by Kill Rock Stars.ġ.

Gonson played the self-recorded tape for her friends at Cavity Search Records and they became immediately interested to release it in 1994. Gonson’s house, but did not have the intention to officially release it.

The story related to the making of this album has been widely reported as a sort of an accident: Elliott had recorded the album in the basement of his girlfriend J.J. ‘Roman Candle’ is Elliott Smith debut album whereas he was still playing in Heatmiser at the time. In 2010, Alyson Camus reviewed every song he ever wrote and we repost here) ( Editor writes: rock nyc has become a rallying place for Elliott Smith fans if for no other reason than our investigation into his death.

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