SISTER

also appears on:

• Sister Interview Disc
• Hold That Tiger (live '87)
• 1991: The Year Punk Broke (live '91)
• Screaming Fields of Sonic Love video (live '87)
• 05/22/87 "LIVE AT CITY GARDENS 1987"
• 06/21/87 "LIVE IN TORINO 1987"
• 06/24/87 "LIVE IN YUGOSLAVIA 1985/1987"
• 08/25/91 "LIVE IN BREMEN 1991"
• 12/14/92 "LIVE AT BRIXTON ACADEMY 1992"
• 07/06/00 "LIVE IN COPENHAGEN 2000"
• 08/05/00 "PERSPECTIVE MUSICALES - LIVE AT CAT'S CRADLE 2000"
• 10/07/01 "WORLD TRADE CENTER BENEFIT 2001"

• SST Godhead Storedude In-Store Play Device #3
• Westwood One In Concert: New Rock #94-16 (live '93)
• Wired - Music Futurists
• Rockin On Paper - The Vera Club DVD (live '87)
• 1987 (EIN JAHR UND SEINE 20 SONGS)
• L'ANTHOLOGIE DES INROCKS - 25 ANS DE MUSIQUE

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

Lyrics   status: confirmed

I went away to see an old friend of mine
His sister came over, she was out of her mind
She said Jesus had a twin
Who knew nothing about sin
And she was laughing like crazy
At the trouble I'm in
Her light eyes were dancing, she is insane
Her brother says she's just a bitch
With a golden chain
She keeps coming closer
Saying "I can feel it in my bones -
Schizophrenia is taking me home"

My future is static
It's already had it
I could tuck you in
And we could talk about it
I had a dream
And it split the scene
But I got a hunch
It's coming back to me

NOTES:

• Working title: "Sister"
• Perhaps "Sister" is more of an alternate title. It's used on the Town & Country broadcast featured on Screaming Fields, and Thurston often introduced the song as 'Sister'.
• A Thurston solo acoustic version of this song appears in a fragment on track 14 of Thurston's "ROOT" disc.
• Several lines from Kim's part of this song appear in an early set of lyrics titled "Come Around".
• Jim O'Rourke played guitar on this song while he was in the band.
• A staple of live sets since it was written.

ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

• Screaming Fields VHS - LIVE - 4:04

  Recorded live on 6/4/87 at Town & Country in London, England. Titled "Sister" on broadcast. Also available on a bootleg 7".

• On "Rockin on Paper" - LIVE VIDEO - ?

  Recorded live on 06/11/87 at the VERA in Groningen, Holland.

• On "Hold That Tiger" - LIVE - 4:30

  Recorded live on 10/14/87 at the Cabaret Metro in Chicago, Illinois.

• On "The Year Punk Broke" - LIVE - 4:23

  Recorded live on 8/25/91 at the Pukkelpop Festival in Hasselt, Belgium.

• On "Westwood One" radio disc - LIVE - ?

  Recorded live on 1/24/93 in Melbourne, Australia @ Big Day Out festival.