Jesse

The third track on The Drift was written by Walker and recorded at Metropolis Studios in Chiswick between June 2004 and November 2005. A caption in the CD booklet says that in times of loneliness and despair Elvis Presley would talk to his stillborn twin brother Jesse. Jesse Garon Presley was born before Elvis in January 1935 and buried in Tupelo. The album's press notes called the song Walker's 9/11 song, and Far Out Magazine reads the two subjects together.

Treble's reviewer heard the song as an imagined conversation between Elvis and Jesse about 9/11, with droning guitars as planes and whispered sounds at the edges as impacts. Slant Magazine, rating the album four out of five, described it as a deconstruction of Jailhouse Rock. It was not released as a single.

Pitchfork's Dominique Leone wrote in 2006 that the track begins with the hum of jet engines and a mutilated take on the guitar riff of Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock, and that Walker used Elvis and his stillborn twin to say something about American mythology and hubris. Hugh Burns plays electric and baritone guitar and James Stevenson guitar with Echoplex, and Mark Warman orchestrated and conducted the strings.