From ananova.com:
Elliott Smith has died of an apparent suicide at the age of 34, according to the LA County coroner’s office.
The singer-songwriter’s body was found in his apartment in Silverlake, LA, reports MTV.com.
He was found by a female friend who took him to a local hospital but he was pronounced dead within an hour.
The Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner’s office said the cause of death appeared to be a self-inflicted knife wound.
However, police detectives were investigating the case and other possibilities, including foul play, had not yet been ruled out.
Smith, real name Steven Paul Smith, had battled drug and alcohol addiction throughout his career.
In the mid-1990s, he gained critical acclaim with 1997’s Either/Or and 1998’s XO, albums.
Miss Misery, his contribution to the film Good Will Hunting that earned him an Academy Award nomination in 1997, brought mainstream recognition.
Smith had been working on his sixth album, provisionally titled From A Basement On the Hill, which was due to be completed later this year.
Story filed: 15:12 Wednesday 22nd October 2003
MISS MISERY
Performed by Elliott Smith
Produced by Elliott Smith Larry Crane
Written by Elliott Smith
I’ll fake it through the day
With some help from Johnny Walker Red
Send the poison rain down the drain
To put bad thoughts in my head
Two tickets torn in half
And a lot of nothin’ to do
Do you miss me, Miss Misery
Like you say you do
A man in the park
Read the lines in my hand
Told me I’m strong
Hardly ever wrong I said “
Man you mean–”
You had plans for both of us
That involved a trip out of town
To a place I’ve seen in a magazine
That you’d left lyin’ around
I don’t have you with me
But I keep a good attitude
Do you miss me, Miss Misery
Like you say you do
I know you’d rather see me gone
Than to see me the way that I am
But I am in your life any way
Next door the T.V.’s flashing
Blue frames on the wall
It’s a comedy of errors you see
It’s about taking a fall
To vanish into oblivion
It’s easy to do
And I tried to leave but you know me
I come back when you want me to.
Do you miss me, Miss Misery
Like you say you do
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