Greatist Sonic Youth lyric of all time???

screamingskull · 04.06.2006, 11:31 AM

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???

AllHandsOnTheBigOne · 04.06.2006, 12:12 PM

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"

Sn@ke · 04.06.2006, 12:47 PM

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"

top 40 squeeze · 04.06.2006, 12:50 PM

I can't get laid cause everyone is dead

krastian · 04.06.2006, 02:04 PM

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

finding nobody · 04.06.2006, 05:13 PM

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

Neongod · 04.06.2006, 07:12 PM

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.

fort awesome · 04.06.2006, 07:19 PM

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

-from Wish Fulfilment, of course

stirling · 04.06.2006, 07:23 PM

"Smoke and flames. Alright. So nice."

marleypumpkin · 04.06.2006, 08:13 PM

"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"

cakeflip · 04.06.2006, 08:51 PM

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)

noumenal · 04.06.2006, 08:54 PM

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

finding nobody · 04.06.2006, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noumenal

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!

thecockerontherock · 04.06.2006, 09:47 PM

"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

xpresswaytoyrskull · 04.06.2006, 10:04 PM

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

_slavo_ · 04.07.2006, 02:57 AM

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

sonicl · 04.07.2006, 09:14 AM

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

Savage Clone · 04.07.2006, 09:47 AM

"I'm Insane."
Hands down.

lunberg · 04.07.2006, 11:35 AM

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.

finding nobody · 02.21.2007, 10:08 PM

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..

04.06.2006, 11:31 AM	#1
screamingskull invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: england Posts: 5,580	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???
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04.06.2006, 12:12 PM	#2
AllHandsOnTheBigOne children of satan Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Where? Posts: 378	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" __________________ Boys go to jupiter to get more stupider Girls go to mars, become rock stars
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04.06.2006, 12:47 PM	#3
Sn@ke bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lisboa! Posts: 98	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" __________________ Sn@ke
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04.06.2006, 12:50 PM	#4
top 40 squeeze bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 234	I can't get laid cause everyone is dead
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04.06.2006, 02:04 PM	#5
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	I left home for experience Carved 'Suk For Honesty' on my chest __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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04.06.2006, 05:13 PM	#6
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	this is all comin from a human imagination it's just the daydreamin days in a daydream nation
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04.06.2006, 07:12 PM	#7
Neongod the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 549	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. __________________ "Það besta sem Guð hefur skapað er nýr dagur."
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fort awesome empty page Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 10	We're only blood on light on life New pretty pictures everynight -from Wish Fulfilment, of course __________________ up above the daily hum...
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04.06.2006, 07:23 PM	#9
stirling bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 191	"Smoke and flames. Alright. So nice."
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04.06.2006, 08:13 PM	#10
marleypumpkin invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN Posts: 3,193	"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" __________________ "It takes 2 fingers to make the peace sign. Just like it takes 2 people to make love. When you go like this , you're jerking off." -George Carlin
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04.06.2006, 08:51 PM	#11
cakeflip empty page Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Hollywood, California Posts: 10	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)
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04.06.2006, 08:54 PM	#12
noumenal expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,855	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
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04.06.2006, 09:47 PM	#14
thecockerontherock empty page Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norco,California smack dab in the middle of a two bit "make your town look like Irvine"face-lift kit Posts: 9	"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
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xpresswaytoyrskull little trouble girl Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tempe, Arizona Posts: 55	When you're a star I know you'll fix everything
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04.07.2006, 02:57 AM	#16
_slavo_ invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ðîññèÿ Posts: 10,912	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 __________________ you're the boy that can enjoy invisibility
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04.07.2006, 09:14 AM	#17
sonicl invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 9,527	I love you. I love you. I love you. What's your name. __________________
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04.07.2006, 09:47 AM	#18
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,290	"I'm Insane." Hands down.
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04.07.2006, 11:35 AM	#19
lunberg bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: back2Paris Posts: 222	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.
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02.21.2007, 10:08 PM	#20
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	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..
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