Sonic Youth- Confusion is Sex lyrics
The Infamous Mr Blue
I didn't transcribe these, thanks to those who did :-)
@ALBUM: "Confusion is Sex"
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1983 - LP/CS on Neutral (Neutral Nine)
1983 - LP/CS on Zensor (ND 02, Berlin)
1987 - LP/CS/CD reissued on SST (SST096, US)
Songs: (She's In A) Bad Mood, Protect Me You, Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Your
Dog, Shaking Hell, Inhuman, The World Looks Red, Confusion Is Next,
Making The Nature Scene, Lee Is Free
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@SONG: (She's In A) Bad Mood
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She's in a bad mood
But I won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But I can't fall for it
She's in a bad mood
But i won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But i can't fall for it
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Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof
@SONG: Protect Me You
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Protect me from ravagement
I am ten years old
I don't know what I do
Protect me myself
I am fourteen
There's nothing to do
Protect me yourself
I am sixteen
Protect me from starving
I am eighteen
Protect me you
I don't know what you do
Protect me demons
That come at night
I don't know what they say
Their whispering
Sends the night air away
And makes me forget
I hope they come
Again and again
Here they come
Again and again
I hope they come again
Again
Again
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Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof
@SONG: Freezer Burn
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<instrumental>
I Wanna Be Your Dog
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The original lyrics are from a song on The Stooge's first self-titled
album,
released on Elektra Records in 1969, written by Iggy Stooge:
"So messed up, I want you here
In my room, I want you here
Now we're gonna be face-to-face
And we lay right down in my favorite place
Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog
Well, come on
Now I'm ready to close my eyes
But now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sand
Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog
Now I wanna be yr dog
Well, come on"
@SONG: Shaking Hell
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She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll take off your dress
I'll take off your dress
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
[repeat two times]
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around
Shake
[repeat nine times]
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake shake
[repeat eighteen times]
Shake
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Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof
@SONG: Inhuman
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Oi
Aha [repeat ten times]
My body is a pasttime
My mind is a simple joy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
A complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
My body is a past time
My mind is a simplejoy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
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Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof
@SONG: The World Looks Red
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Push it away
The world looks red
People with fisheyes
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
An ocean of insects
Moved like a sheet
The immovable fact
Buried my mind
In a horsehair 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
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Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof
@SONG: Confusion Is Next
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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
--
Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof
@SONG: Making The Nature Scene
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Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
Order in details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
The tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are in unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
Symbols of its past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene
Standing all in columns
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Waiting to make them pay
There is no resistance to
The signs along the way
Standing all in columns
Waiting to make them pay
Making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means
To count on you
It just means
To count on you
Make that nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
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Source: interpreted from original recordings.
Transcribed: Hans van Dok with Casper Hulshof and Rob Vaughn
@SONG: Lee Is Free
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<instrumental>
@ALBUM: Kill Yr. Idols
Protect Me You / Shaking Hell (1+2) // Kill Yr. Idols / Brother James /
Early
American
Protect Me You and Shaking Hell (1) are from Confusion Is Sex; Shaking
Hell
(2) is live at the Plugg Club, NYC, October 15 1983; the rest is live to
two
track at Wharton's, NYC, October 1983.
@SONG: Protect Me You
[Kim]
Protect me from ravagement
i am ten years old
i don't know what i do
protect me myself
i am fourteen
there's nothing to do
protect me yourself
i am sixteen
protect me from starving
i am eighteen
protect me you
i don't know what you do
protect me demons
that come at night
i don't know what they say
their whispering
sends the night away
and makes me forget
i hope they come
again and again
here they come
again and again
i hope they come again
again
again
@SONG: Shaking Hell
[Kim]
She's finally discovered she's a
he told her so
she's finally discovered she's a
he told her so
she's finally discovered she's a
he told her so
come closer and i'll tell you
come closer and i'll tell you
come closer and i'll take off your dress
i'll take off your dress
i'll shake off your flesh
i'll shake off your flesh
i'll shake off your flesh
shake off your flesh
shake off your flesh
turn around
turn around
turn around
shake, shake
shake, shake
shake, shake
shake, shake
shake, shake
shake off your flesh
shake off your flesh
shake off your flesh
shake off your flesh
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake, shake shake
shake shake
shake
@SONG: Kill Yr. Idols
[Thurston]
I don't know why
you wann' impress Christgau
ahh let that shit die
and find out the new goal
kill yr. idols
sonic death
it's the end of the world
and confusion is sex
kill yr. idols
sonic death
it's the end of the world
and confusion is sex
@SONG: Brother James
[Kim]
Take my hand he said to me
follow now or you'll be damned
let's go to the other side
let's go to the other side
[Henceforth ????????]
[???????????????????]
Brother James you ??????
Brother James your ???????
I don't need it anymore
comin' knockin' at my door
I don't need it anymore
comin' knockin' at my door
take my hand you might as well
we're going straight to hell
i don't wanna hang around
[???????????????????????]
@SONG: Early American
[Kim]
Nothing but a savage bird
in your face
in your land
the weight of you is greater than
forgot my pride
forgot my side [sight/size??]
don't bother to leave
there's no room outside
your sense of pride
nothing here but a savage bird