A THOUSAND LEAVES

also appears on:

• SYR2 as part of Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
• 05/28/98 "LIVE IN LOS ANGELES 1998"

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

Lyrics   status: confirmed

Can't catch me, I'm syntax free
I'm preconceived preternaturally
I don't invest in what is best
Your once and for all means shit to me
Hate translator, hate translator
Hate translator, you can't catch me
Don't mistake her, don't misshape her
Don't mutate her, you can't get me
The radical beacon, the preverbal season
The abstract poetics, immediate treason
Do you remember reductionist lie
Fundamentalist alibi
Hate castrator, hate castrator
Hate castrator, don't fuck with me
Don't you break her, don't deflate her
Don't outdate her, you'll fuck with me
It's a cushy job, a pussy's job
A cum junkie's job, makes my dick throb

Feel ineffable [x 10]
The drama of my consciousness
Is that having lost the world
I try to recover myself
But in this moment I am lost
It's always blood, fear, politics, and money
I don't know how to stop vomiting
Since I've been working in office...

Can't catch me, I'm syntax free
I'm preconceived prehistorically
Don't be alarmed, don't be alarmed
Don't be alarmed, it's only me
Come back in my arms, back in my arms
Back in my arms, the ineffable me
Hate translator, hate translator
Hate translator, you can't catch me
Don't mistake her, don't misshape her
Don't mutate her, the ineffable me
The ineffable me, the ineffable me
The ineffable me, you can't catch me
The ineffable me, ineffable me
Can't catch me, can't catch me
Uuuhhh.. noooooooo ... blaaaaahhhhhhhh.....

NOTES:

• Working title: "Proud Marie"
• The first song played live from the "new set" (SYR/Leaves material) in early '97.
• Performed instrumentally through-out '97, first played w/ vocals in Austin, TX on 3/19/98.
• The instrumental version received semi-release on SYR2, as part of the Slaapkamers Met Slagroom track.
• This was also the first song broadcast on the Sessions @ West 54th St show in August '97.
• The lyrics were written by Thurston.
• Jim O'Rourke played bass on this song for the 2000 tour.
• "Fun Fact!": introduced by Thurston as "Julie Cafritz' Underwear" in Seattle '98.