Say Yes (Elliott Smith song)

"Say Yes" is the final track of Elliott Smith's 1997 album "Either/Or", and one of three tracks from "Either/Or" that was used in the soundtrack of "Good Will Hunting".

"Say Yes" is one of Smith's widely recognized songs.cite news
url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-566486.html
title = Elliott Smith: Woe Is Him
author = Mike Musgrove
work = The Washington Post
date = 1999-03-15
accessdate = 2007-06-13
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quote = Smith then played solo for "Say Yes," one of The songs that earned his fame...] It is happy [cite web
url = http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/031028-elliottsmith1.shtml
title = Elliott Smith: A Fond Farewell
author = Marc Hogan
publisher = PopMatters
date = 2003-10-28
accessdate = 2007-06-13] and optimistic [cite web
url = http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/10/22/smith/index.html
title = Elliott Smith, 1969-2003
author = Sarah Schmelling
publisher = Salon.com
date = 2003-10-22
accessdate = 2007-06-13] in both instrumentation and lyrics, which contrasts with the dark tone in most of his other songs. [cite web
url = http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/smithelliott-either.shtml
title = Either/Or review
author = Robert Jamieson
publisher = PopMatters
date = 2002-04-30
accessdate = 2007-06-13] In an interview, Smith said that the song was written about "someone particular and I almost never do that. I was really in love with someone."cite news
url = http://cwas.hinah.com/interview/?id=11
title = Elliott Smith
author = Matt Dornan
work = Comes With a Smile
date = Winter 1998/9, Issue 4
accessdate = 2008-03-30
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quote ]

Smith performed the song often, [cite news
url = http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2003/10/30/Pulse/Elliott.Smiths.Live.Act.Worth.It-1982314.shtml
title = Elliott Smith's live act worth it
author = Helen Schumacher
work = Oregon Daily Emerald
date = 2003-10-30
accessdate = 2007-06-13] [cite news
url = http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/12768/
title = Elliott Smith's indie style delights crowd
author = Brendon Vandergast
work = Daily Bruin
date = 1998-05-26
accessdate = 2007-06-13] even during full band shows, in which he would play the song solo on an acoustic guitar. "Say Yes" was the last original composition that he ever played live.

"Say Yes" has been covered by Death Cab for Cutie. [cite news
url = http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_10.30.03/music/cmj.php
title = CMJ '03: rooms on fire
author = Stuart Berman
work = Eye Weekly
date = 2003-10-30
accessdate = 2007-06-13] It was also covered in an episode of "One Tree Hill", when Bryan Greenburg sings to his daughter Jenny.

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