This is one of many Elliott Smith songs that really do it for me, but A Fond Farewell is actually a pretty happy song—it's about his willingness to stop hurting himself with his addictions (at his lowest point in his life, Smith was consuming $1500 worth of heroin a day.) It makes me tear up because it came out a year after he died of apparent suicide. Such turmoil. RIP.
A Fond Farewell - Elliott Smith - YouTube