Elliott Smith - Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands lyrics

Everybody cares, everybody understands Yes everybody cares about you Yeah, and whether or not you want them to It's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head To a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally And a quiet lie that makes you want to scream and shout So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun Raining its guiding light upon everyone For a moment's rest you can lean against the banister After running upstairs again and again From wherever they came to fix you in, but Always fair city's finest follow right behind You've got a pretty vision in your head A pencil full of poison lead And a sickened smile illegal in every town 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 Raining its guiding light upon everyone You say you mean well, you don't know what you mean f**ing oughta stay the hell away from things you know nothing about