Elliott Smith — Everybody Cares Everybody Understands alt version

Everybody cares, everybody understands Yes, everybody cares about you As a matter of fact, I'm sure they do But if you don't act just right, they kick you in the head But I wouldn't take it offensively They're doing it out of sympathy And you're the one who's bringing it all about So here I lay, dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun Raining its guiding light upon everyone For a moment's rest, I lean against the banister After running upstairs again and again From a place, you people, you've never been With all of your city's finest following behind With a greater skill and resourcefulness After putting me under a wrongful arrest Stuck me out to the desert to dry and die So here I lay, dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun Raining its guiding light upon everyone Here I lay, dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun Pushing its guiding light upon everyone The dream-killing doctor says to describe my dream But some things are for no one to know And for you, twelve-stepping cop, to not find out