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There's a live version of the song from an appearance on David Letterman available HERE. It's a nice variation, a little more stripped down, but the drumming is a bit off and Elle Macpherson's mugging for the camera is irritating and inappropriate.

I know what this is, this careful arranging while everything collapses. This is how we survive. And also how we disappear.

This is one of my favorite cover songs. He just nails it.

Before I began life this time I took a crash course in Counter-Intelligence Once here I signed in, see name below, and added Some words remembered from an earlier time, 'The intention of the organism is to survive.' My earliest, & happiest, memories pre-date WWII, They involve a glass slipper & a helpless blue rose In a slender blue single-rose vase: Mine Was a story without a plot. The days of my years Folded into one another, an easy fit, in which I made money & spent it, learned to dance & forgot, gave Blood, regained my poise, & verbalized myself a place In Society. 101 St. Mark's Place, apt. 12A, NYC 10009 New York. Friends appeared & disappeared, or wigged out, Or stayed; inspiring strangers sadly died; everyone I ever knew aged tremendously, except me. I remained Somewhere between 2 and 9 years old. But frequent Reification of my own experiences delivered to me Several new vocabularies, I loved that almost most of all. I once had the honor of meeting Beckett & I dug him. The pills kept me going, until now. Love, & work, Were my great happinesses, that other people die the source Of my great, terrible, & inarticulate one grief. In my time I grew tall & huge of frame, obviously possessed Of a disconnected head, I had a perfect heart. The end Came quickly & completely without pain, one quiet night as I Was sitting, writing, next to you in bed, words chosen randomly From a tired brain, it, like them, suitable, & fitting. Let none regret my end who called me friend.

There's a version on the You Tubes that has the crowd noise removed, and it's wildly inferior because of it.

Bobby and Donna's vocals compliment each other nicely, and they really find their groove in the second half of the song.