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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke
Composer
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
Composer
Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon
Composer
Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo
Composer
Steve Shelley
Steve Shelley
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Producer
Aaron Mullan
Aaron Mullan
Recording Engineer
Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke
Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

Lights on the stones on backed-up drain
What lovers list on languid stain
We've come together to gather star
Shooting up stones a pallored heart
The dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are alright
With me
We're not gonna run away
We're not gonna leave you stranger
We turn the light on your lonely home
Camera on the haunted stones
Blood-shadow gentle painted scorn
Now it's dancing ink across your skin
Hieroglyphic-lover nature-friend
The dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are alright
With me
We're not gonna run away
We're not gonna leave you stranger
We turn the light on your lonely home
Written by: Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

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