CONFUSION IS SEX

also appears on:

• Sonic Death (live '82/'83)
• Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols CD
• Live in Venlo (live '83)
• Overkill Yr Idols 7" (live '83)
• Walls Have Ears (live '85)
• The Whitey Album (Ciccone version)
• Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
• Smart Bar - Chicago 1985 (live '85)
• Battery Park NYC July 4th 2008
• Rarities 2 (live '83)
• 08/17/02 "LIVE AT CABARET METRO CHICAGO, IL 2002"

• Like a Rug in a Lake

Line-up:
Thurston - bass
Kim - vocals
Lee - guitar
Bob Bert - drums

Lyrics   status: confirmed

Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
Order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
The tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny, sunny street
The city has forgotten you
Its symbols of its past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Standing now in a column
And make the nature scene

Standing all in columns
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
The signs along the way
Standing all in columns
Waiting to make their pay
Making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make that nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene

NOTES:

• The only studio song recorded w/ Bob Bert for Confusion.
• There's a recurring bell sound buried in there (Lee was apparently obsessed with bell sounds at the time).
• It appears on "The Walls Have Ears" as "Blood on Brighton Beach".
• Radically revamped Ciccone-style for the Whitey Album.

ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

• On "Overkill Yr Idols" - LIVE - ?

  Recorded live on 10/30/83 in Berlin, Germany @ the Loft. A-side of infamous Forced Exposure 7".

• On "Live in Venlo" - LIVE - 3:19

  Recorded live on 11/27/83 in Venlo, Holland.

• "Smart Bar - Chicago 1985" - LIVE - 3:42

  Recorded live 08/11/85 Chicago, IL @ Smart Bar.

• "Blood on Brighton Beach"

• Ciccone Youth version

• On "Battery Park NYC July 4th 2008" - LIVE - ?

  Recorded live on 07/04/08 in NYC, NY @ Battery Park.