Greatist Sonic Youth lyric of all time???
 

My favourite sonic youth lyric of all time is

"WHERE ARE YOU NOW, WHEN YR BROKEN EYES ARE CLOSED?
HEAD IN A CLOUDY DREAM OF GREEN AND SAILBOATS?
BORROWED AND NEVER RETURNED, EMOTIONS, BOOKS,
OUTLOOKS ON LIFE"

from Skip Tracer on Washing Machine, i think washing machine has some of the nicest sonic youth lyrics on it.

what is you favourite sonic youth lyric of all time???

I think I like this part of Skip Tracer better:

"Row house row house pass through
Let the city rise up to fill the screen
Clothes flung out of closets, doorknobs falling off
The guitar guy played real good feedback, and super sounding riffs"

But my favorite Sonic Youth lyric is probably:

"Use the word:
Fuck
The word is love"

Live version of Mote:

"If broken bottles shine like jewels
If this decision points to you
If what you say is ever true
Then I'll be fine..."

Stereo Sanctity

"Your spirit is time-reversed to your body
Stereographic mix-up field on field
It started growing up the day your body dies
Only apparently real to irreal"

I can't get laid cause everyone is dead

I left home for experience
Carved 'Suk For Honesty' on my chest

this is all comin from a human imagination
it's just the daydreamin days in a daydream nation

Too many to pick one (per usual)

The edge of a blade pressed to the throat of your reflected image.

I love you, I love you, I love you, what's your name?

You're walkin' thru my heart once more
Don't forget to close the door

When you're a star
I know that you'll fix everything

Hold tight and fear a little bit

Gather round, Gather friends
Never fear, Never again

I can feel it in my bones
schizophrenia is taking me home

I know I'd love her to breathe, again

She said "Honey, here's a quarter
Go put it in a washing machine"

A life that you know
Will keep you bound in love

The immovable fact buried my mind
In a horsehair coat, in a pile on the floor

We'll know where when we get there you said
and we both knew we would


That's a good start anyway.

We're only blood on light on life
New pretty pictures everynight

-from Wish Fulfilment, of course

"Smoke and flames. Alright. So nice."

"Small Flowers Crack Concrete"

"Small flowers crack concrete
Narcotic squads sweep through poet dens
spilling coffe grabbing 15 yr old runaway girls
by frazzled ponytailed hair + tosing them into the backseats of cop cars
The narcs beat the bearded oracles
replacing tantric love with
complete violence

Lights + mirrors dot the city
Inkstained hippies w/ boxed lunch + marijuana
Mystery plays of shit & nothingness
blessed by colors from a black hat

Blue lights search thru weeds
searching for the heart of D.A.Levy
& the mind he left behind

What didjoo expect? Another mystic wreck?
That's whatchoo got crawling in your panic net
What didjoo bring me? Not a goddamn thing yeh
+ what didjoo leave me? Another tombstone dream yeh
O salacious mansion, the boys held for ransome
didja see where he's gone? The blasted summer's dawn
Fucked up in Cleveland Fucked up in Cleveland
Short flight to nothing heavens up to something heavens up to something
Levys up to something Levys up to something

Death poems for the living gods of america
Plastic saxophone bleat, bleed for nothing, nada
Cops crashing thru doors infuriated by silver charms of suburban smoke
At war w/ patches of red dirt glitter
& bluejean fucking + protest"

Schizophrenia


I went away to see an old friend of mine
His sister came over
She was out of her mind
She said Jesus had a twin
Who knew nothing about sin
She was laughing like crazy
At the trouble I'm in
Her light eyes were dancing
She is insane
Her brother says she's just a bitch
With a golden chain
She keeps coming closer saying
I can feel it in my bones
Schizophrenia
Is taking me home

FROM Sister (1987)

One two, one two, one two titty
i know every nook and cranny in New York City
we're ciccone and that's enough
i'm the royal tuff titty and you gotta taste my love
taste my love
yeah
meeeh
come on everybody and rock with me
i am the one on the christmas tree

hell yeah man!

"It's always a headache the size of a toe truck
she's full of disorders depends what you're used to
she's talking of trances of truncheons in battle
of bruises from bottles that never get better
bad baby bitching she screams at the door
Hammer in hand and head to the floor" -Marilyn Moore

When you're a star I know you'll fix everything

I've always been obsessed with EVOL lyrics, just because it's so dreamy:

My mother used to say
'you're the boy that can enjoy invisibility'
i'm the boy that can enjoy invisibility
close your eyes make a wish
cross yourself
see yourself
feel yourself
scream once more
move yourself
across the floor
burn inside
between two walls
the advertisements say
the pleasure's ever lasting
come an' touch me
the advertisements say
the pleasure's ever lasting
must be dead and gone to heaven
come and touch me here
so i know
that i'm
not there

I love you. I love you.
I love you. What's your name.

"I'm Insane."
Hands down.

Dripping dream (even if it's kind if obscure), Skiptracer, New Hampshire to name a few are really nice.

"little darlings describes the scene to all the mamas with the money eyes" is one of the nicest lines in their work.

It's later then it seems.
It's later then it seems.
It's later then it seems.
new ears are listening

I see with a glass eye, the pavement view
A shadow forming, across fields rushing
Through me to you
We tore down the world, and put up four walls
I breathe in the myth
I'm over the city, fucking the future
I'm high and inside your kiss

A couple that come to mind..

many lyrics stick in the mind but i think they work best in the context of the songs. I do think that Lee's lyrics are of general massive high quality, especially Karen Revisited

Too many to name! Here are a few:

When seasons circle sideways out of turn, and words don't speak, just fall across the carpet...

Smoke and flames! Alright!

The guitar guy played real good feedback and super sounding riffs (sounds like an uncool kid desparately trying to be cool by describing a concert he went to).

Got to change my mind before it burns out.

Let nurse give you a shot. It's something to do.

Left out in the rain, out of town again. Left out in the rain, ocean bound I guess...

Shot in the heart, and you're to blame. You give love a bad name!

...for by the away, go out not today (?)
move back along and wait a long long time
nothing running free, you gotta time it all
run out the door come back when you score
new times will come and you will see a door
into the lion eye and now i'm gone
and it's out
and it's not what you thought it was about
but a life, that you know
will keep you bound in...

sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
sometimes you got still the blues for me
I could run away, a long time to stay
burn out your eyes, burn out surprise
look out today you know it's not the same
it's all the rage, it's every day
and it's out
and it's not what you thought it was about
but a life, that you know
will keep you round in love


EJSTANS - Winner's Blues

.....i, i shouldnt laugh

ha ha ha, i don't even remember starting this thread

i'm liking Herinneringen at the moment. Great Lyrics.

Blow up blow up, guitar guitar, blow up blow up
west side
guitar
going to the west side
blow up blow up, guitar, guitar, guitar
blow up blow up, guitar, wa mmwa mmmwa
up up up
please believe, da da da da da da da da da
you see, got
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR TAR TAR TAR TAR TAR
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
line tiwst, twist, guitar, oh oh oh no no
believe, please believe me
please believe , believe, believe me
da da da da
please believe me

I think Sonic Nurse contains their best lyrics, especially Unmade Bed:

LOOK WHO’S COME BACK HOME AGAIN
LOSER LOOKING FOR HIS LUCKY BREAK
THIS TIME HE SAYS HE JUST NEEDS A FRIEND
AIN’T ON THE RUN HE AIN’T ON THE TAKE

CAN YOU UNLOCK THE DOOR BABE
WILL YOU JUST UNDO THE CHAIN
WILL YOU TAKE YR TIME BEFORE YOU
MIX UP LOVE, HIS LOVE AND PAIN
LONELINESS LAYS DOWN HIS HEAD
WANTS TO GET YOU HIGH, BETTER TAKE IT NOW
A MAN LIKE THAT’S LIKE AN UNMADE BED
STAINED EYES SEARCHING FOR ANOTHER WAY OUT

DOES IT MATTER IF YOU EVEN WANT THIS
MAYBE YOU JUST DON’T CARE
ALL I KNOW IT TAKES JUST ONE KISS, BABE
FOR YOU - HE’S NEVER THERE
HEY I KNOW IT’S KINDA HARD
AND MAYBE THIS TIME IT WILL NEVER END
HIT AND RUN LOVER BACK IN YR HEART
ANSWERED PRAYERS YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE SENT

CUZ NOW THAT YR IN HIS ARMS BABE
YOU KNOW YR JUST IN HIS WAY
SUCKERED BY HIS FATAL CHARM, OH GIRL
IT’S TIME WE GETAWAY

I'm waiting for JennTheBenn to criticize MarleyPumpkin's choice of 'small flowers crack concrete'. For me, my favorite is:

ticket to ride:


Thurston: "We really suck tonight ladies and gentlemen... in fact, we're gonna call this song "Bury Our Heads In The Sand"...and, uh...well no, this is actually called 'Dickweed Part 2'."
Lee: "Part 8!" Thurston: "Oh yeah, this song's called 'Dickweed Part 8'" [pause] Okay maybe I'll sing a solo song for you....WELL I GOT A TICKET TO RI-HI-I-I-DE... yeh, come on lets do it!" etc... basically thurston butchering Ticket To Ride while Steve and Kim jam (Thurston instructs Steve to "Play those funky drums").

Probably: The Dripping dream

single fold sick insert design in junk...

I'll shake off your flesh

my mother always told me, "if you can't say
a nice thing, don't say anything."

she also told me once not to write any shit
poetry.

"You're it. No you're it. No no YOU'RE IT. Miss me. Don't Dismiss me. Spirit Desire We will (not) fall(ow)."

Hands down. Best opening invocation ever. I always change the lyrics around in my head (but still sing the correct ones out loud:)

I can't get laid cause everybody's dead.

Never gave a damn about the meter man, though I was the man who had to read the meters, man.

i love the shizophrenia lyrics especially: her brother says she just a bitch, with a golden chain.

my favorite lyrics, almost ever, even though they are supposodly meaningless are

hes running on a tuff gnarl in his head
hes got a fatal erection home in bed
hes really smart and hes really fast
hes got a hard tit killer fuck in his past...................
........................

i find virtually all of nyc ghosts and flowers lyrically great.

In panic i forget
In despair i need it
In my mind i save it
In death i have it