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

&& even though its a cover i still like it...
"High voltage man kids his night to bring the light to those who need
To hide their shadow deep
Though it’s too bright find the light I know that friends don’t mind
Seek electricity seek electricity"

I like:

Theres no perfect idea, theres no perfect fate.

Just little stabs at happiness. Sometimes a little too late.

Candle

See a dog star jiving like he's magic snatching
Keeps me up awake a crystal cracking
I can't wait, I can't stay a candle
Gotta change my mind before it burns out
I'm the cocker on the rock
Wind is whipping thru my stupid mop
See a falling snow girl walking Broadway
Turns the corner at 14 and I know there's no way
It's alright, it's a lighted candle
And I'll know she'll be okay by someday
I'm the cocker on the rock
Humming bells start chiming in yr electric clock
It's safe to say candle
Tonight's the day candle
It's alright now candle
The wind's away candle
Never thought I'd see a dog star falling
I'm the cocker on the rock
Wind is whipping thru my stupid mop

i get this in my head all the time.

You know what? That's not actually a Sonic Youth lyric, though I didn't know it for many years. It's Mike Watt's poetry, which I learned in an interview with him in the '90s.

"Beauty lies, lost in the eyes, of another's dream" Kim on Beauty's in the Eye.

"Sunday comes and Sunday goes, Sunday always seems to move so slow to me, and here she comes again." Thurston renders the sublime succintly.

"Are you famous under the skin, familiar with the things you wanted? Able now to take it all in, makin' peace with every hole in the story?" Lee on NYC Ghosts & Flowers, serious as a gosh-darn heart attack

These lyrics don't strike me as SY's pinnacle of songwriting talent or anything, it's just uncanny stuff the stays with me after listening. So forgive me for failing to submit the greatest lyric.

"I'll shake off your flesh."

Honorable mention:

Oh Alice, come back......he's just a kitten.

HE'S JUST A KITTEN!!

twister. dustbuster. hospitalbed.



I always liked how those just kinda fit together for no real reason.

"I had a friend who screamed all the time"

"radical adults lick godhead style" - i dont even know what that means but its cool

"My violence's a sleepy head
nodding out to rising bliss
I left home for xperience
carved suk for honesty on my chest
My violence is the number
coming out of prayer
Find it in the father
Find it in the girl"

"Words crumble around me, and fall with the weight of Heaven. I cannot move. I am beneath the great weight. I cannot see. My eyes are blinded. I'm in the darkness..."

AND THEN I KISS HER STOMACH AND IT'S THEN I REALIZE:
HER LIGHT IS THE NIGHT - I BELIEVE IN YOU
I SEE A GREEN LIGHT

Thats really creepy

DON’T TOUCH MY BREAST
I’M JUST WORKING AT MY DESK
DON’T PUT ME TO THE TEST
I’M JUST DOING MY BEST

Though in my head its concatenated to that awesome riffage at the end of each line.

I typed this wrong (Foolish twat)

or "Stick your fingers in your mouth, squeeze your tongue and wrench it out"

maybe? im not a lyric man never have been and i dont look them up unless they are fugazi lyrics or some political band etc. your most probably right dude, but either way its a good line..?

wow! i always thought she said Cunt Jockies job there, but cum junkie is way better great line - great song!!

the edge of a blade, pressed to the throat of yr reflected image