A THOUSAND LEAVES

also appears on:

• 05/28/98 "LIVE IN LOS ANGELES 1998"

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar
Kim - guitar/vocals
Lee - guitar
Steve - drums/percussion

Lyrics   status: confirmed

I wanna shut you down
Love your sight and sound
I wanna spin you round
Till you're underground
I wanna strip you down
Till you feel the round
I wanna feel you shine
I wanna waste some time

I wanna paint my face
Like a model out of place
Cause I'm supposed to dare
The machine will tear
I'll throw up sometime
And then you'll be mine
I wanna serve you down
While my mind is on the ground
I wanna move your switch
Make you go squish
My desiring machine
Yeah it's made pretty clean
Now I'll turn the dial
And I'll put you on the pile

Modern women cry
Modern women don't cry
Modern women cry
Modern women don't cry
Cry
Don't cry
You hurt me with your lie

Touch the fire in the rain and
See the children stop their play and
Look for shelter in the garden
Of make believe and I
I believe perfection is a
I can see what you're going through but
I can't melt my head to what you're
Whisked away to light the bomb a
Thousand leaves are left to stay and...

NOTES:

• Working title: "Static Overview"
• Performed instrumentally throughout 1997. It was first performed w/ vocals in Austin on 3/19/98.
• It was the final song of the August '97 Sessions @ West 54th St broadcast on PBS (3 songs taken from a longer set taped in June).
• In fact, part of the PBS version was used on the album. SY were so pleased with their performance of it on the Sessions show, they used about half of it on the album cut, splicing it onto the end of what they'd recorded in the studio (the sound is much muddier and hollow than the PBS broadcast sound was, though, which is odd if not intentional...).
• Also, the rhythm of the first half of the song is entirely different than all of the live versions (Kim plays the riff slightly different).
• The second song to feature "a thousand leaves" in the lyrics.
• Said to be written as a response to the Meredith Brooks song "Bitch".