Sonic Youth

"The Burning Spear"

[Thurston]
I'm not afraid to say I'm scared
In my bed I'm deep in prayer
I trust the speed I love the fear
The music comes
The burning spear

"I Don't Want To Push It"

[Thurston]
You gave your line
You fell in love
You feel the shadow
There's no more to borrow
There's no more to steal
And no more to feel
I know I know I know
I know I know I know
I know I know I know
You fell in line
You fell in jail
You feel in the shadow
To live in the light
To die in the night
I don't want to push it
I know I know I know
I know I know I know
I know I know I know

"She Is Not Alone"

[Thurston]
She is not alone
She is not alone today

She is not alone
She is not alone today

She is not alone
She is not alone today

She is not alone

To... day

"I Dreamed I Dream"

[Kim]
Look before you leap, okay?
Do you read me?
May all your dreams come true
He's standing by the door
He's got something in his hands
All the money's gone
All the money's gone
The days we spend, go on and on
Shift
Fucking youth
Working youth
May all your dreams come true

A lot of people suffer
From impotence
All the money's gone
The days we spend go on and on

Fucking youth
Working youth
Fucking youth
Working youth
Fucking youth
Fucking youth
Working youth

[Lee]
You slept
Did I drift?
Do I dream?
Do you read me?
I'm not speaking
Do you read me?
I dream

I dream

Sound today are you sound today
are you sound today?
Sound today are you sound today
are you sound today?
Today
These things don't happen
automatically
I dream
Edith moves each step
Fucking youth
The days we spent go on and on
I dream
Do you read me?

"Making The Nature Scene"

[Kim]
Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
Order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
The tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene

Standing now in columns
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
The signs along the way
Standing all in columns
Waiting to make their pay
Making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene

Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene

Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
Order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
The tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene

Standing now in columns
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
The signs along the way
Standing all in columns
Waiting to make their pay
Making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene

Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene

"Confusion Is Next"

[Thurston]
I maintain that
Chaos is the future
And beyond it is freedom
Confusion is next and next after that is the truth
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth

Stick your fingers
In your mouth
Squeeze your tongue
And wrench it out
From its ugly fucking cancer
Its ugly fucking cancer
Root
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth

Chaos is the future
And beyond it is freedom
Confusion is next and next after that is the truth
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth

Stick your fingers
In your mouth
Squeeze your tongue
And wrench it out
From its ugly fucking cancer
Its ugly fucking cancer
Root
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth

Tell nothing but the truth

"The World Looks Red"

[Thurston]
Push it away
The world looks red
People with fish eyes
The ground sucks
Walk on my fingertips
Displacing the fog
The weight of my body
Is too mush to bear
The memory drained
The life from the dull
An ocean of insects
Worked like a sheet
The immovable fact
Buried my mind
In a horse-hair coat
In a pile
On the floor

Push it away
The world looks red
People with fish eyes
The ground sucks
Walk on my fingertips
Displacing the fog
The weight of my body
Is too much to bear
The memory drained
The life from the doll
The ocean of insects
Moved like a sheet
The immovable fact
Buried my mind
In a horsehair coat
In a pile
On the floor

"Inhuman"

[Thurston]
Oi
Aha [repeat ten times]

My body is a pasttime
My mind is a simple joy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
A complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman

My body is a past time
My mind is a simplejoy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me

Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman

"Shaking Hell"

[Kim]
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so

Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll take off your dress

I'll take off your dress
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh

Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh

Turn around
Turn around
Turn around

Shake
[repeat nine times]

Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh

Shake shake
[repeat eighteen times]

Shake

"Freezer Burn / I Wanna Be Your Dog"

[Kim]
So messed up, I want you here
In my room, I want you here
Now we're gonna be face-to-face
And we lay right down in my favorite place

Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog

Well, Come on

Now I'm ready to close my eyes
But now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sand

Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog

Well, Come on

"Protect Me You"

[Kim]
Protect me from ravagement
I'm ten years old
I don't know what to do
Protect me myself
I'm fourteen
There's nothing to do
Protect me yourself
I'm sixteen
Protect me from starving
I'm eighteen
Protect me you
I don't know what to do
Protect me demons
That come at night
I don't know what they say
Their whispering
Sends the night air away
And makes me forget
I hope they come
Again and again

Here they come
Again and again
I hope they come again
Again
Again

"(She's In A) Bad Mood"

[Thurston]
She's in a bad mood
But I won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But I can't fall for it

She's in a bad mood
But I won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But I can't fall for it

"Early American"

Nothing but a savage blur
In your face, in your land
The weight of you is greater than
Forgot my pride
Forgot my side
Don't bother to leave
There's no room outside
Your sense of pride
Nothing here but a savage blur

"Brother James"

"Take my hand" he said to me
Follow now or you'll be damned
Let's go to the other side
Let's go to the other side
Great balls of simplicity
Great balls of simplicity
Brother James gave em to me
Brother James gave em to me
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door

Take my hand, you might as well
We're going straight to hell
I don't wanna hang around
Won't you stick yr head in the ground

"Kill Yr Idols"

I don't know why
You wanna impress Christgau
Ah let that shit die
And find out the new goal

Kill yr idols
Sonic death
It's the end of the world
Your confusion is sex

Kill yr idols
Sonic death
It's the end of the world
Your confusion is sex

"Justice Is Might"

[Thurston]
This song this song this song is called
This song okay
This song is called justice is justice is might
Okay it's about it's about it's about sonic life
It's about it's about sonic life
It's about sonic life that's right
You have a genius you have a genius and a sex maniac
Living together taking lots of drugs and and
Fucking all day and as it's just it's just it's just like
It's like it's like staying at home and risking your life
This song okay this song this song is called justice
This song is called ju
This song is called justice is might

I know it's wrong
But that is allright
As long as it's strong
It's just that it might
Justice is might
Justice is might
Justice is might
Justice is might

Justice is might
Justice is might
Justice is might
Justice is might

"I'm Insane"

[Thurston]
Love starved backwood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride
Stone cold blonde a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder
We want out
We fish at night
Sex in heaven
Tough town
A cruel touch
Sailors leave
Sirens screaming
Lap of luxury
A show of violence
Take off your mask
Lay off my brother
Kiss my fist
Stop at nothing
A steaming swamp
And a troubled heart
The sky is red
And I can't stop running
Her baby stares
The secret's there
So help us god
I'll swing at your funeral
The stubborn air
The killer mob
A red bone woman
A double cross
Big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle
One step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head
Murded angels
Bodies in bedlam
A women scorned
You can't hang me
Tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley
Nothing before
A big fear
Don't get caught
By her father's friends
Swamp girl faded
The tiger's wife
A frenzied love
Hot climate
Twisted passions
Flesh parade
Dead ahead
A world so wide
Big river love camp
The house boy and hill girl
The agony column
Don't crowd me
It's time for crime
Strange breed river girl's misery index
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane

Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane

Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane

Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant

I'm insane

"Ghost Bitch"

[Kim]
Slowly pour the liquid down
For miles and miles it flows along
Rose coloured neon lighted
Swirl around turn around
Feel the touch of my hand
Swirl around swirl around
Fellow shadows black and blue
All around all around
Locking arms side by side
Crouch down before the fire's light
You're the first day of my life

I had no belief before
Until I had this dream last night
I still remember their savage cries
So serious in their rite
Faces painted in joyous fright
In the dawns early light
Oh say did you see the colour of my eternity
And the sweat on my skin
Our founding fathers laid right down
And indian ghost from long ago
They gave birth to my bastard kin
America it is called
A sensation of eternity
Locking arms side by side
Crouch down before fire's light
You're the first day of my life

"I Love Her All The Time"

[Thurston]
She comes into my mind
Twisting thru my nerves
I don't understand
A word she says
She's on my side
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time

She comes into my mind
Twisting thru my nerves
I don't understand
A word she says
She's on my side
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time

"Society Is A Hole"

[Thurston]
Society is a hole
It makes me lie to my friends
It's running down my street
With white powers sneakers
On the beautiful beat of black feet
Society is a hole
It beats my friends big heads
My friends have big heads,
I can understand it
But I don't recommend it
You got big big hair
And everybody is scared
Society is a hole
It makes me lie to my friends
The assault of holy music
There's a slap in my face
My friends are girls wrapped in boys
We're living in pieces
I want to live in peace
Society is a hole

[talking]

"Brave Men Run (In My Family)"

[Kim]
Seven days and seven nights
I dreamt a sailor's dream at sea
Seven days and seven nights
I dreamt a sailor's dream of me
Seven days and siven nights
The world was made and lost again
Seven days and seven nights
Brave men run
In my family
Brave men run
Into the setting sun
Brave men run
Into captivity
Brave men run
In my family

Brave men run
Away from me

"Shadow Of A Doubt"

[Kim]
Met a stranger on a train
He bumped right into me
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
Must a been a dream
From a thousand years ago
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
From the bottom of my heart
He was looking all over me
Together everafter
He said
"You take me & I'll be you"
"You kill him & I'll kill her"
Kiss me
I swear it wasn't meant to be
I swear I didn't mean it
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
It's just a dream
It's just a dream I had
Nononoooooh
Swear it's just a dream
Just a dream
Dream I've had
No
No
No
No
Take me to it
Take me to her
Maybe
Maybe it's just a dream
It's a dream
It's just a
Just a
No

Met a stranger on a train
Bumped right into me
Swear I didn't mean it
Swear it wasn't meant to be
Must've been a dream
From a thousand years ago
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me

"Tom Violence"

[Thurston]
My violence is a dream
A 'real dream'
A skinny arm
A crush on living sin
My violence
Is a sleeping head
Nodding out to rising bliss
I left home for experience
Carved 'suk for honesty' on my chest
My violence is the number
Coming out of prayer
Find it in the father
Find it in a girl

There's a thing in my memory
Hoilding on for dear life
With a feeling of secrets
Beating up under my flesh
My tongue is tied
I'm sleeping nights awake
Tom violence is a dream
Coming out of a girl

"Hallowe'en"

[Kim]
There's something shifting in the distance
Don't know what it is
Day's as dead as nights ?
Except for the feeling that's
Crawling up inside of me as you
Sing your song as you
Swing along and you're
It's your, your song

It's the devil in me
Makes me stare at you as you
Twist up along you
Sing your song and you
Slipping up to me and you're
So close I just a
Wanna touch you and I
Sing your song and you
Dont know what's going on but you
Wanna me to come along as you
Sing your song and you're
Fucking with me as you
Slither up to me
Your lips there
Slipping twisting at my
Insides and singing on
You're just a
Swinging man, it's not your
Swinging song and now i
Don't know what you want but
You're looking at me and you're
Falling to the ground and you're
Twisting around fucking with my
My mind and I don't know what
's going on

Swinging in your song
Twisting me on as you
Slither up to me and it's gotta be
And I don't know what you wanna do
And you're looking at me with your big dark eyes
And you're rubbing your body

Twisting

"Flower"

[Kim]
Support the power of women
Use the power of man
Support the flower of women
Use the word:
Fuck
The word is love

Support the power of women
Use the power of man
Support the flower of women
Use the word:
Fuck
The word is
Love

There's a new girl in your life
Long red wavy hair
Green green lips and purple eyes
Skinny hips and big brown breasts
Hanging on your wall
One end slit the other's ripped

Support the power of women
Use the power of man
Support the flower of women
Use the word
Fuck
The word is love

Support the power of women
Use the flower of man

Use the power of women
Use the word
Fuck
The word is love
Use the word
Support the power of women
Use the power of man
Support the flower of women
Use the word
Fuck

The word is love

Use the word
Fuck