Elliott Smith Placeholder song lyrics

Looking at all the rows

All these records look like big zeroes

Got your picture on the back of a 45

A placeholder until you take up mine

A placeholder until you take up mine

I'm the person you'll never need

The biggest loser on 16th Street

The invisible man with the see-through mind

A placeholder until you take up mine

A placeholder until you take up mine

Break off of in someone's laughter

You can tell right there

He's still a square

He likes the way that you look now

Like an open book

Just like my favorite song

Some pretty words that didn't last that long

Like a package sent priority overnight

Placeholder, come and take up mine

Placeholder, come and take up mine

Placeholder, come and take up mine

Placeholder, come and take up mine