The Walls Have Ears (live album) lyrics

Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
Order in the 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 an unnatural growth
On a funny, sunny street
The city has forgotten you
Its symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
The order of decay

"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
Great balls of simplicity
Great balls of simplicity
Brother James gave em to me
Brother James gave em to me
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door

Take my hand, you might as well
We're going straight to hell

"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
Great balls of simplicity
Great balls of simplicity
Brother James gave em to me
Brother James gave em to me
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door

Take my hand, you might as well
We're going straight to hell

"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
Great balls of simplicity
Great balls of simplicity
Brother James gave em to me
Brother James gave em to me
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door
I don't need em anymore
Don't go knockin' at my door

Take my hand, you might as well
We're going straight to hell

Claude Bessy: I'm the emcee,
um... so I'm supposed to be saying let's hear it for Sonic Youth,
all the way from the states.
Except uh... actually I'd like about two minutes
of your attention.
Shut your fucking face, I want just two minutes of your attention,
I have a very interesting little story to tell you.
Two minutes, not very long, right?
And it's a...

Coming down
Sadie I love it
Now now now
Death Valley '69

You're right
You're right
You're right
You're right
You're right [You were right]
I was on the wrong track
We're deep in the valley
How deep in the gulley
And now in the canyon
Way out in the yonder
She started to holler
She started to holler
I didn't wanna
I didn't wanna
I didn't wanna
I didn't wanna
But she started to holler

We're gonna kill the California girls
We're gonna fire the exploding load
In the milkmaid maidenhead
We're gonna find the meaning of feeling good
And we're gonna stay there
As long as we think we should
Mystery train
Three way plane
Expressway to your skull
Mystery train
Three way plane
Expressway to your skull
Mystery train
Three way plane
Expressway...
...to your skull.

Slowly pour the liquid down
For miles and miles it flows along
Rose colored, neon lighted
Swirl around, turn around
Feel the touch of my hand
Swirl around, swirl around
Fellow shadows black and blue
All around, all around
Locking arms, side by side
Crouch down before the fire's light
You're the first day of my life

I had no belief before
Till I had this dream last night

I kneel before the green lights
Of her singing crayon eyes
And then I kiss her stomach
And it's then I realize
Her light is the night
I'm not blind, I believe in you
I see a green light
I see a green light
I see a green light

She comes into my mind
Twisting through my nerves
I don't understand
A word she says
She's on my side
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time

She comes into my mind
Twisting through my nerves
I don't understand
A word she says
She's on my side
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time
I love her all the time

Love-starved backwoods teaser
Farm girl hot-eyed bride
Stone cold blonde, a quivering menace
Atomic wallop, wholesale murder
We want out, we fish at night
Sex in heaven, a tough town a cruel touch
Sailors leave, sirens screaming
Lap of luxury, a show of violence
Take off your mask, lay off my brother
Kiss my fist, stop at nothing
A steaming swamp, and a troubled heart

I don't know why
You wanna impress Christgau
Ah let that shit die
And find out the new goal

Kill yr idols
Sonic death
It's the end of the world
Your confusion is sex

Kill yr idols
Sonic death
It's the end of the world
Your confusion is sex

I don't know why
You wanna impress Christgau
Ah let that shit die
And find out the new goal

Kill yr idols
Sonic death
It's the end of the world
Your confusion is sex

Kill yr idols
Sonic death
It's the end of the world
Your confusion is sex

Coming down
Sadie I love it
Now now now
Death Valley '69

You're right
You're right
You're right
You're right
I was on the wrong track
We're deep in the valley
And now in the canyon
Out in the yonder
She started to holler
She started to holler
I didn't wanna
And I didn't wanna
But she started to holler
So I had to hit it
I had to hit it
Hit it
Hit it
Hit it
Deep in the valley

[instrumental]

Thurston: flower, go into it! flower, go into it!! ...
This song is called "Flower".

Support the power of women
Use the power of man
Support the flower of woman
Use the word: Fuck
The word is love

There's a new girl in your life
Long red wavy hair
Purple eyes and green, green lips
Skinny hips and big round breasts
Hanging on your wall
One edge ripped, the other's slipped

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
An ocean of insects
Worked 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