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'''"True Love"''' is the name of an unreleased song played by the late [[Elliott Smith]] in the last years of his life at live shows. The lyrics are extremely grim. They deal with buying [[drugs]] off the street and graphically paint a picture of his desire to leave [[rehab]].

== Lyrics ==

True love is a rose that, I guess,<br>
Is locked to get closed<br>
Maybe just to me<br>
My heart’s been attacked<br>
Shattered by tough love, bad love<br>
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I bought mine off the street<br>
True love, man, just can’t be beat<br>
I felt so complete<br>
Married to heaven, angels above<br>
And each night I look up<br>
At a bright honey moon<br>
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Cause it sure seemed built to last<br>
Even after my honey moon past<br>
I kept right on at midnight<br>
Like a ghost<br>
To the house it once haunted<br>
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Day after day<br>
I’d steal with my true love away<br>
To some hide out we left undisturbed<br>
We could do what we wanted<br>
But I started to feel like a liar<br>
Saying, "I love you"<br>
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Madly in love or mad me<br>
There’s no in between<br>
It comes on and on<br>
I found I can’t make a stand<br>
I’m her hired hand<br>
I have to do harm<br>
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One day I got sick<br>
She played me a nasty old trick<br>
Said, "I need cigarettes"<br>
Walked round the block<br>
Caught a cab<br>
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Stayed gone for too long<br>
My love had gotten too strong<br>
Just to try to getting back on my own<br>
I had to go to rehab<br>
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All I need is a safe place to breathe<br>
Is this where it’s at?<br>
Half of no chance<br>
Steps in a dance<br>
Your life’s just a combat<br>
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Now I’m the king of the ward<br>
Cause I’m good and I swallow my sword<br>
Puke it up<br>
For the doctor to write a new prescription<br>
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Tranquil as a dove<br>
People that have lost their true love<br>
All seem to fit the same description<br>
I feel cold, useless and old<br>
Wish I was no one<br>
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Take me home<br>
Take me home today<br>
Take me out of this place<br>
Take me out, do it today<br>
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== External links ==

[http://www.sweetadeline.net/?page_id=227 Partially correct lyrics at SweetAdeline.net]