Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth - Side One lyrics
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00:00 - 05:05 Side one fades in with an extended version of the section in The Good and the Bad that sounds reminiscent of I Dreamed I Dream. Interesting to note that Lee does some type of spoken word overtop which is absent on EP version "shadows... morning sun... blades of grass... dark night... sunlight... twilight... " 05:05 - 07:16 This is a completely unfamiliar piece, vaguely reminiscent of their cover of DNA's Blonde Redhead in rhythm, but otherwise unknown. Thurston curiously sings She Is Not Alone once at the end. 07:16 - 10:33 "She Is Not Alone" 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 10:33 - 12:25 [Unknown instrumental] 12:25 - 17:02 The Good And The Bad [Instrumental] 17:02 - 19:15 The World Looks Read 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 19:16 - 20:25 [instrumental] 20:26 - 23:46 Confusion Is Next 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 23:47 - 25:16 Portion of Inhuman with Thurston screaming his lungs out demonically. 25:16 - 26:16 Next is a short one minute sample of what is probably Thurston slowly playing the riff to I Wanna Be Your Dog while Lee tunes in the background. Somebody shouts We're coming! Towards the end a European presenter begins speaking (it's hard to say exactly what this is -- the band a spent a fair amount of time in Europe in 1983) 26:17 - 27:35 [sound instrumental] 27:36 - 29:28 This sounds to me like the end of (She's In A) Bad Mood, really extrapolated, with odd chime noises and really eerie flute style hums. You can hear Thurston (?) say something to someone around 28:52 (all you have to do is turn up our amp ??). 29:29 - 30:20 [Shaking Hell like instrumental] 30:21 - 33:39 The next part begins with a foreign introduction of the band (w/ Bob Bert, definitely from one of the 1983 European tours), followed by an energetic and -- better yet -- full version of Burning Spear. The breakdown features extra vocals by Thurston, some of which can be discerned as: I feel your soul ... and I can't wait to meet my fate with the burning spear and the baby's breath becuz the cross on my back is sonic death 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 33:40 - 38:31 [instrumental based around I Wanna Be Your Dog] [crowd cheers] The following songs appear in full on this side of Sonic Death: The World Looks Red -- 17:02 - 19:15 (sped up) Confusion is Next -- 20:26 - 23:46 Burning Spear -- 30:21 - 33:39