SONIC NURSE

also appears on:

• 'Unmade Bed' promo CD single
• Mix Tape #7 (live '04)
• Rarities 1 (live 2004 x 2)
• 08/20/04 "LIVE AT THE ORANGE PEEL 2004"

• Mai 2004 [radio edit]
• The Definitive Tom Dunne Vol 01: Pet Picks 2000-2006
• Welcome to the Desert
• LIVE AT KEXP, VOLUME ONE (live 2004)
• WDET LIVE! VOL. 4 (live 2004)

Line-up:
Thurston - gtr/vox
Kim - bass
Lee - gtr
Steve - drums
Jim - gtr

Lyrics   status: confirmed

Look who's come back home again
Loser looking for his lucky break
This time he says he just needs a friend
Ain't on the run, he ain't on the take

Can you unlock this door babe
Will you just undo the chain
Will you take your time before you
Mix up love, his love of pain

Loneliness lays down his head
Wants to get you high, better take it now
A man like that's like an unmade bed
Stained eyes searching for another way out

Do you really even want this
Maybe you just don't care
All I know it takes just one kiss, babe
For you - he's never there

Hey I know it's kinda hard
And maybe this time it will never end
Hit and run lover back in yr heart
All those answered prayers you should never have sent

Cuz now that yr in his arms babe
You know that yr just in his way
Suckered by his fatal charm, oh girl
It's time we getaway

NOTES:

• The first single from 'Sonic Nurse', though only via promo CD release. A video was planned, but not completed (to my knowledge). They played this song on a variety of late night shows, including Conan and Leno. It was also included in the acoustic set performed at the 2004 Bridge Benefit.
• The lyric sheet reads: "Does it matter if you even want this" for the first line of the 2nd chorus, and Thurston generally sang this live (as well as 'will you check your heart' instead of 'take your time' in the first verse).

  ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

  • On "Unmade Bed" single - EDIT - 3:24

    Radio edit from promo CD.

  • On "LIVE AT KEXP, VOLUME ONE" - LIVE - ?

    Recorded live on 07/14/04 on KEXP Radio, Seattle.

  • On "WDET LIVE! VOL. 4" - LIVE - ?

    Recorded live on 08/02/04 on WDET Radio, Detroit

  • On "Mix Tape #7" - LIVE - 4:17

    Recorded live on 08/06/04 in Ottawa, Canada.