Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay (from Elliott Smith)

At one point, the paranoia was total, and you didn’t know what to believe anymore. Vans following him, record company staff breaking into his home to steal his songs, his left hand going numb and not waking up… it had become impossible to perform live…

Fragile and wonderful like Nick Drake, say those who know the two stories…

His songs are his everyday life: days spent getting drunk, using crack and heroin, wounded by pain and wanting to give it all up…

He gets arrested thinking he’s a crazy homeless man, falls drunkenly off a cliff but miraculously saves himself, even tries to detox… for a few days…

On October 21, 2003, his girlfriend finds him with a knife lodged in his chest. Instinctively, she pulls it out before calling an ambulance.

“I’m so sorry, Love. Elliott. God forget me,” reads a note on the table…

The girl's account is full of contradictions… suicide or murder…

But who cares, in the end.

I’ve only recently “met” him… fortunately…

Goodbye, Elliott…

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