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..