Sonic Youthis an experimental rockgroup formed in New York City in 1981. They are generally seen as one of the leading innovators of contemporary rock music. In their early career Sonic Youth were associated with the no waveart and music scene in New York City, but have outlasted most associated bands. Initially inspired by the noise experimentationof Glenn Brancaand The Velvet Undergroundand the heavy garage rockof The Stooges, they are known for using a variety of unorthodox guitar tunings, and for applying screwdrivers, drumsticks or other preparations to guitars to alter the instruments timbre. Members of the band have released books of poetry and prose (a beatnik influence is evident in both their writing and lyrics), produced, written and performed in films (such as "1991: The Year Punk Broke", "Perfect Partner", "(this is known as) the blues scale" and "last days").
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Sonic Youth
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Hatred
I hate the past
I cant see anything at all, all I see is me
Thats clear enough
And thats whats important, to see me
My eyes can focus
My brain is talking
Looks pretty good to me
My heads on straight, my girlfriends beautiful
Looks pretty good to me
Sometimes I speak
Tonight theres nothing to say
Sometimes we freak
And laugh all day
Hold these pages up to the light
See the jacknife inside of the dream
A railroad runs through the record stores at night
Coming in for the deep freeze
Mary: a simple word, are you there in the country?
Yr eyes so full, yr head so tight
Cant you hear me?
Remember our talk
That day on the phone?
I was the door, and you were the station
With shattered glass and miles between us
We still flew away in the conversation
My cup is full, and I feel okay
The world is dull, but not today
She thinks shes a goddess
She says she talks to the spirits
I wonder if she can talk to herself?
If she can bear to hear it?
This is erics trip
Weve all come to watch him slip
Hes slipping all the way to texas
Can you dig it?
(eric says the sky is blue...)
I see with a glass eye
The pavement view
A shadow forming, across the fields rushing
Thru me to you
We tore down the world, and put up four walls
I breathe in the myth
Im over the city, fucking the future
Im high and inside yr kiss
We cant see clear
But what we see is a alright
We make up what we cant hear
And then we sing all night
Scattered pages and shattered lights
A jacknife and a dream
Theres something moving over there on the right
Like nothing Ive never seen