The Hot Rock
Sleater-Kinney
1999 ReleasedUpvote Your Favorite Album Today!
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Start Together
02 : 38
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Hot Rock
03 : 17
3
The End of You
03 : 20
4
Burn, Don't Freeze
03 : 19
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God Is a Number
03 : 44
6
Banned From the End of the World
02 : 09
7
Don't Talk Like
03 : 34
8
Get Up
03 : 46
9
One Song for You
02 : 49
10
The Size of Our Love
03 : 12
11
Living in Exile
02 : 31
12
Memorize Your Lines
03 : 10
13
A Quarter to Three
04 : 03
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Track Lyrics
Start Together Lyrics
9 ContributorsStart Together LyricsIf you want me, it's changing
If you want, everything's changing
If you want, the sky would open up
If you want, your eyes could open up
Mess
Worst
The best
That you've heard
Come so far, come close together
Don't tear apart what we worked for
Right or wrong, here we are
I wanna know what you are
What you are
Baby, don't you leave me, baby, don't you go
'Cause I'll head out the fences, head out the door
Baby, don't you leave me, baby, don't you go
'Cause I'll roll with the punches, roll out the door
I don't know
What you want
But I got
What you—
Baby, don't you leave me, baby, don't you go
'Cause I'll head out the fences, head out the door
Baby, don't you leave me, baby, don't you go
'Cause I'll roll with the punches, roll out the door
Burn, Don't Freeze Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'd (When you saw me on that first day)
Set your heart on fire
Arson is no way (Said I'd blossom under your care)
To make a love burn brighter
Always thought that the devil was the only one (Wrap me up tight inside your wing)
Who knew the ins and outs of the ways of love
So I sold off my heart to see how this would end (Is it safe now, is it safe to breathe?)
Now I can't move an inch for fear it will begin
(Force my eyes open)
You come in between (Now who has changed?)
Me and the darkness, please (You look different)
Don't you ever leave (So different today)
[Chorus]
Holding your eyes in the hardest stare (Backwards, forwards)
Running around like you wanted me there (Backwards, going out of my mind)
Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town (Backwards, forwards)
Then turning your back when you're movin' around (Backwards, forwards spinning way off time)
I ain't gonna listen to you no more (Fire to water)
Breakin' outta this place, throwin' open the door (Fire, baby, baby, putting me out)
Use me up just to fan the flame (Fire to water)
But you'll be sorry as I'm walkin' away (Fire, baby, baby's putting me out)
[Verse 2]
You're the truest light I've known (I'm the one who decides who I am)
Someday, I'll learn, don't need your fuel to burn (I'm the one who will shed this old skin)
Always thought that hell was the only place (I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?)
Hot enough to melt our heart into a locked embrace
There's something so safe about a lack of air (I feel different, so different today)
Only way to make sure that you'll always be there
[Chorus]
Holding your eyes in the hardest stare (Backwards, forwards)
Running around like you wanted me there (Backwards, going out of my mind)
Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town (Backwards, forwards)
Then turning your back when you're movin' around (Backwards, forwards spinning way off time)
I ain't gonna listen to you no more (Fire to water)
Breakin' outta this place, throwin' open the door (Fire, baby, baby's putting me out)
Use me up just to fan the flame (Fire to water)
But you'll be sorry as I'm walkin' away (Fire, baby, baby's putting me out)
[Bridge]
(I'm gone)
We're going underground (I'm gone)
That's where these hearts are found
Devil spins this world around (I'm gone)
Only love can save us now
Do you wanna go underground? (I'm gone)
Way down in underground
(Don't you wanna?)
Did you really change your mind?
(Ain't you gonna?)
Was this fire way too bright?
(Don't you wanna?)
Could this be your only crime?
(Ain't you gonna?)
Did you really change your mind?
[Chorus]
Holding your eyes in the hardest stare (Backwards, forwards)
Running around like you wanted me there (Backwards, going out of my mind)
Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town (Backwards, forwards)
Then turning your back when you're movin' around (Backwards, forwards spinning way off time)
I ain't gonna listen to you no more (Fire to water)
Breakin' outta this place, throwin' open the door (Fire, baby, baby, putting me out)
Use me up just to fan the flame (Fire to water)
But you'll be sorry as I'm walkin' away (Fire, baby, baby, putting me out)
Banned From the End of the World Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Banned (If you want me there)
End of the world (I'll play forever, dear)
End of the world (Open up the box)
End of the world (A new life rushes out)
And I've (Nasty little bug)
No millennial fear (Much work to be done)
The future is here (Eat all the numbers up)
It comes every year (We're zero-zero gone)
[Chorus]
Hot, hot, go back, these eyes are shut
If you want it, I'll come right over
Then throw me out when the party's over
[Verse 2]
Banned (If you want me there)
End of your world (We'll party without fear)
End of the world (Future rushes on)
End of the world (We'll just play along)
We (A night of revelry)
Can bottle time (Spend it here with me)
And sell it back (For so many dreams)
It's a nostalgic crime (Cannot be contained)
[Chorus]
Hot, hot, go back, these eyes are shut
If you want it, I'll come right over
Then throw me out when the party's over
[Bridge]
I wanna party like it's 1999
I wanna party like it's 1999
[Verse 3]
Banned (We're the band)
End of the world (From the end of the world)
Future is here ('Cause we're the band)
Look in the mirror (From the end of the world)
Don't Talk Like Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Don't talk like you're nineteen
You're thirty-five if you're a day
Don't act like, like you're nineteen
Everyone is waiting
[Chorus]
Haven't I done enough today?
Haven't I done enough this time?
Haven't I done enough today?
Haven't I done enough?
[Verse 2]
"Don't stop here," she said, "Don't say that"
A part of me is dead
Numb just like a fallen limb
Like what you left behind
[Chorus]
Haven't I done enough today?
Haven't I done enough this time?
Haven't I done enough today?
Haven't I done enough?
[Bridge]
There's a part of me that works just like a child
There's a part of me that works just like a child
There's a part of me that works just like a child
There's a part of me that's you
Get Up Lyrics
[Verse 1]
And when the body finally starts to let go
Let it all go at once
Not piece by piece
But like a whole bucket of stars
Dumped into the universe (Woo)
Watch it go
Goodbye, small hands, goodbye, small heart
Goodbye, small head
My soul is climbing tree trunks and swinging from every branch
[Chorus]
They're calling on me
They're calling on me
They're calling on, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I am fine)
They're calling on me
They're calling on me
They're calling on, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I'm not fine)
[Verse 2]
Do you think I'm an animal?
Am I not?
Do you like fur? (I'm alright)
Do you wanna come over?
Are we captive only for a short time?
(I'm not right)
Is there splendor? I'm not ashamed (The way you move, no waves were ever)
Desire shoots through me like birds singing (Quite as fluid)
[Chorus]
They're calling on me
They're calling on me
They're calling on, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I am fine)
They're calling on me
They're calling on me
They're calling on, oh, oh, oh, oh
(I'm not fine)
[Bridge]
I hit the mark
I target moon, I target sky, I target sun
Fall down on the world
Fall down on the world
Fall down on the world before it falls on you
[Refrain]
Like beggars, like dogs
Like whores, us all (I'm alright)
Like beggars, like dogs
Like stars, us all (I'm not right)
[Verse 3]
Shoot for that heart (And when you're near, no sky was ever quite as clear)
Shoot straight for that heart
[Refrain]
Like stars, so small
Like us when we fall (I am fine)
Like beggars, like whores
Like lovers
[Bridge]
Oh, get up
Too far
Oh, get up
Too far
[Refrain]
Like stars above
Look down so far (Well, I am scared)
Like stars above
Look down at us all (No, I'm not scared)
One Song for You Lyrics
7 ContributorsOne Song for You LyricsIf you want it
And you're going out of your mind
If you want me in your bed
We better do it on the sly
One song for you (And you know why)
We wrote a little tune (Do it on the sly)
It takes off for you (And you know why)
Hold on, hold on, it's coming soon
If you feel it
In your body like a hurricane
Let your arms become propellers
Take off, don't feel any shame
I know for you (Like a hurricane)
It don't make sense, I don't make sense (You don't feel no shame)
Nothing comes true (You're like a hurricane)
Because the doors were locked for you
Got a message
Spelled out in a lovesick bruise
Yeah, I got this secret code that
Only flame holders know how to use
Piled up for you (It's a lovesick blues)
The notes I wrote on hollow walls (You know how to use)
Let me come through (Show me how to use)
Pass through the things that we went through
Jump in, jump out
Get in, get out
Jump in, jump out
Get in, get out
Have memory of the things we said (Jump in, jump out)
Take memory of the things we left (Get in, get out)
Have memory of the things we said (Jump in, jump out)
Take memory of the things you left (Get in, get out)
Drop little boy crumbs you could follow back
When you get lost becoming a man
Drop little boy crumbs you could follow back
When you get lost becoming a man
It's a lie, it's the truth
You need it more than I do
I want it all for you
But I can't live for you
A Quarter to Three Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It's 1 a.m., you haven't called
It must be 4 wherever you are
And the photo booth strip and the letter you wrote
They feel like nothing I could hold
[Chorus]
There's nothing bad, nothing free
Nothing left for me to feel
It's like goin' to bed at a quarter to three
Finally tired, finally empty
[Verse 2]
Should I be up to play the game?
Back and forth, get back at me
My confidence fell, I feel so mad
Tell me whose side are you on?
[Chorus]
There's nothing bad, nothing free
Nothing left for me to feel
It's like goin' to pieces could fix everything
'Cause at this point, I'm really me
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
There's nothing bad, nothing free
Nothing left for me to feel
It's like goin' to bed at a quarter to three
Finally tired, finally empty
Finally tired, finally empty