Originally Released on:
EVOL
also appears on:
- Live in Texas (live '86)
- Hold That Tiger (live '87)
- Hits Are For Squares
- 07/12/86 "LIVE IN DENVER 1986"
- 05/22/87 "LIVE AT CITY GARDENS 1987"
- 06/21/87 "LIVE IN TORINO 1987"
- 06/24/87 "LIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA 1985/1987"
- 12/14/92 "LIVE AT BRIXTON ACADEMY 1992"
- 06/24/06 "LIVE IN DALLAS 2006"
- 10/21/09 "LIVE IN BERLIN 2009"
- 08/12/11 "LIVE IN BROOKLYN 2011"
- Rockin On Paper - The Vera Club DVD (live '87)
Line-up:
Thurston - guitar/vocals
Kim - bass
Lee - guitar
Steve Shelley - drums
Lyrics status: confirmed
My violence is a dream, a "real dream"
A skinny arm, a crush on living sin
My violence is a sleeping head
Nodding out to rising bliss
I left home for experience
Carved "Suk For Honesty" on my chest
My violence is the number
Coming out of prayer
Find it in the father
Find it in a girl
There's a thing in my memory
Holding on for dear life
With a feeling of secrets
Beating up under my flesh
My tongue is tied
I'm sleeping nights awake
Tom Violence is a dream
Coming out of a girl
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Track length: 3:05
First Known Performance: 04/12/86
Last Known Performance: 11/13/11
NOTES:
- Working title: "Dear Life"
- This song remains one of the most frequently performed songs
in SY's set.
- "TV" likely a reference to Television's Tom Verlaine..
- Jim O'Rourke played guitar on this song while he was in the band.
ALTERNATE VERSIONS:
- On "Live in Texas" - LIVE - 4:32
Recorded live on 4/12/86 in Austin, Texas @ the
Continental Club. First live performance!
- On "Rockin on Paper" - LIVE VIDEO - ?
Recorded live on 06/11/87 at the VERA
in Groningen, Holland.
- On "Hold That Tiger" - LIVE - 2:43
Recorded live on 10/14/87 at the Cabaret Metro
in Chicago, Illinois. Listed as "Tom Valence".

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