Heartattack in a Layby

Track ten on In Absentia, recorded at Avatar Studios in the spring of 2002, it is a ballad placed between The Creator Has a Mastertape and Strip the Soul. Reviewing the album for DPRP in 2002, one writer thought it might be the most beautiful and heart-wrenching ballad the band had made, while another noted how it sits buried between two uncompromising heavy pieces. Sputnikmusic called it an incredibly hard hitting look at pain. It was never a single and had no video. Wilson's longer home demo, at 5:51, came out on the 2020 deluxe edition.

Live

The band played it 79 times, from 27 October 2002 in South Bend, Indiana, to 22 October 2005 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, and dropped it after the Deadwing tour. The Chicago shows of October 2005 put it on Arriving Somewhere.... Wilson revived it in his solo sets, 80 times, and at a 2018 To the Bone show in Philadelphia he traded vocals on it with members of his band, Nick Beggs among them, in the finale. A Royal Albert Hall rehearsal take from March 2018 is a bonus track on Home Invasion. Gavin Harrison recorded a big-band version for Cheating the Polygraph in 2015. The upload in the hypersongs web is the album version.