RATHER RIPPED

also appears on:

• MIX TAPE #5
• 06/24/06 "LIVE IN DALLAS 2006"
• 08/22/07 "DAYDREAM NATION LIVE IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 2007"

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

Lyrics

You keep me comin home again
You keep me comin home again

When you were gone, I met a friend
She taught me how to live in the end

You keep me comin home again
You keep me comin home again

Are her eyes brown or blue?
How does she keep her static cool
My heart and soul are rocked up in her eyes
A little blink ya I recognize
A little blink, yea, that's my prize
A white horse sittin right there by her side
Hard to ignore
Hard to disguise
Will she ever realize

You keep me comin home again
You keep me comin home again

When you were gone
I was out of my mind
I had a friend who laughed all the time
I had a friend who cried all the time
I had a friend who screamed all the time
I had a friend who lied all the time

NOTES:

• Working title: "Stonesy"
• The lead-off track from 'Rather Ripped'. Thurston has this to say about it: "Actually, some of these songs were taken from these short little cues I made for TV commercials. I got a gig early last year to do some TV commercial cues for HSBC bank. I think they used one or two. [...] Right, like 10-second pieces. So I have this whole grab bag of sonic riffs and I did these miniature jams, really concise. For the TV commercials, they said, “We want something that’s like ‘Kool Thing,’” you know? I think that’s what was being used in the temp track for the images they were using. I could write “Kool Thing” all day and every day, but I choose not to. [Laughs] But I really liked making all these miniatures. I thought maybe we should make a whole record of these 10-second songs, that’d be awesome. [...] Some of them were riffs that I fleshed out into songs. I would bring them into rehearsal and the band would develop them into songs. That’s the genesis, certainly, of the first song, “Reena.”
• Kim says: "I was sort of inspired by this book, Reena Spauling, who is kind of a fictional character. It's a collaborative piece of writing by a bunch of people. It's a fictional character about this fantastic kind of girl creature who makes her way in the art world, art fashion world, in New York. And she kind of reminds me of people that you meet who seem fascinating, but they're crazy. And you don't know why they're fascinating, and it just could be in simple things they do or some mystery. It's kind of like one of those gross friendship crush songs, because I just thought I had never written a song about that. And it's also--the name of this became the name of this gallery where I've shown. So, I kind of wanted to continue the myth of Reena Spauling."
• Performed live on Conan O'Brien.
• A video for this song was created by Braden King.