MURRAY STREET

also appears on:

• Corporate Ghost DVD
• 10/07/01 "WORLD TRADE CENTER BENEFIT 2001"
• 08/17/02 "LIVE AT CABARET METRO CHICAGO, IL 2002"

• You Gotta Hear This Volume 3
• Kick It All Stars

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar/vocals
Kim - guitar
Lee - guitar/bvox
Steve - drums
Jim O'Rourke - bass

Lyrics   status: confirmed

These are the words but not the truth
God bless them all when they speak to you
But that's alright
On an empty stage
Sing out when
There's no other way

Come drift the town where secrets lie
Where friends and neighbours keep drifting by
But that's alright
You're here to stay
Sing out tonight
The empty page

I always thought I'd see
Your name in flashing light
You did it all for free, girl
And freely ripped the night
You're free to fight

These are the words but not the truth
God bless them all when they speak to you
But that's alright
You're here to stay
Sing out tonight
The empty page

Do you remember the time
When you were new in town
You smashed your head in the mirror, baby
And kissed the frozen ground
Yr ripped up sound

The empty page has wasted down
The empty page is ripped
The empty page will waste this town
The empty page has slipped

NOTES:

• The fifth of five new compositions debuted by Sonic Youth in 2001. However, Thurston has been performing the song acoustically in various live solo sets since at least 1999.
• This song unsurprisingly became the lead-off track for Murray Street. A video was created using digicam tour footage, available on the Corporate Ghost DVD.
• SY performed this track on the Carson Daly show.