Washing Machine by Sonic Youth - Album Lyrics & Tracks

[Verse 1]

Swirling whirling through the city of ages

You sink a bit whenever angels fly

Do you have a feeling for their fuzzy faces?

Are you close enough to see into their eyes?

You're magic fit and free

Taxi holds on the breeze

 

[Chorus 1]

A dream's a dream of feelings

That never fall at all

Holds his thoughts in chains

And tries to bust up the walls

 

[Verse 2]

Every day it's just another breath

Every night another little death

Do you scratch and itch when your head feels tight

Or wave it away and just stay out all night?

Got your head in the trees

 

[Chorus 2]

If that's the way you're feeling

It's not good or bad

Channels of thought revealing now

Some things we all had

 

 

[Bridge]

I'm having a wonderful vision of the city today

Buildings all lined up neat on straight sun lit blocks

Avenue canyons stretch forever

Hand-cut panes grooved like a record

Flat bridge

Pier, boat, docks

I'm slipping round the bottom edge

Slipping around the bottom edge

I'm slipping around the bottom edge

The bottom edge

I'm slipping around the bottom edge

The bottom edge

 

[Outro]

Do you trip and breeze

Down city streets

Just a little free

With your head in the trees

[Part I]

 

[Intro]

Yeah, I take my baby down to the street and I buy him a soda-pop

He's so sweet

 

[Chorus]

Alright now

Alright now

Alright now

You said that

 

[Verse 1]

If you want I'll be the one

Take you out and have some fun

I never never ever ever tell no one

'Til the end, 'til the morning comes

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Yeah, I take my baby down to the corner and I buy him a soda-pop

Mhm

 

[Chorus]

Alright now

Alright now

Alright now

Alright now

 

 

[Verse 2]

If you want I'll be the one

Take you out and have some fun

Flip a quarter for the toss

I'd like mine with apple-sauce

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Yeah, I take my baby down to the corner and I buy him a soda-pop

Because he's so neat, sweet

 

[Chorus]

Alright now

Alright now

Alright now

Okay now

 

[Verse 3]

If you want I'll be the one

Shake my legs and have some fun

My heart's spinnin' round like a washing machine

Never saw the devil look so damn clean

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Yeah, I take my baby down to the corner and I buy him a soda-pop

And he said, "Honey, you look so fine"

And I said, "Okay, alright

Okay, alright"

 

 

[Part II]

 

[Verse]

I was walking up Lafayette Street

It's real empty

And I looked out and it turned into a big field

And I looked up in the sky

And I looked up in the clouds

And I saw this face looking down at me

And it's a woman's face

And she threw a quarter down at me and she said

"Honey, here's a quarter

Go put it in a washing machine"

And then I looked up at her

I looked up

 

[Instrumental Outro]

[Verse 1]

Lay down your lucky hand, upon her heart

Morning becomes a kite, tangled up in stars

Laugh in the midday light, and leave it behind

Move out into his sundry eyes, and sing, unwind

 

[Verse 2]

Hang down your lucky head, a sign to time

Morning becomes the sun, for the dandy line

Sooner than the midday light, we leave behind

Love is out into the sundry light, you sing, unwind

 

[Instrumental Outro]

[Intro]

Ready? Go, on, two, three, four

 

[Chorus]

If you want me to

I will be the one

That is always good

And you'll love me too

But you'll never know

What I feel inside

That I'm really bad

Little trouble girl

 

[Verse]

Remember mother?

We were close

Very, very close

(Sha-la-la) You taught me how to fit it good

(Sha-la-la) Flirt and laugh, be understood

(Sha-la-la) Curl my hair and eye lash

(Sha-la-la) Pinch my cheeks and do my lips

(Sha-la-la) Swing my hips, just like you

(Sha-la-la) Smile and behave

(Sha-la-la) A circle of perfection, it's what you gave

(Sha-la-la) Then one day, I met a guy

He stole my heart, no alibi

(Sha-la-la) He said, "Romance is a ticket to paradise,"

(Sha-la-la) Momma, I'm not too young to try

(Sha-la-la) We kissed, we hugged

We were close

Very, very close

(Sha-la-la) We danced in the sand

And the water rose - higher and higher

(Sha-la-la) Until I found myself floating - in the sky

I'm sorry mother, I'd rather fight

Than have to lie

 

 

[Chorus]

If you want me to

I will be the one

That is always good

And you'll love me too

But you'll never know

What I feel inside

That I'm really bad

Little trouble girl

 

[Outro]

Little trouble girl (What you doing?)

Little trouble girl (Cross my heart and hope to die)

Little trouble girl (I can not tell a lie)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

Little trouble girl (uh-huh)

[Verse 1]

Hey, hey, where you going in such a hurry?

Take it easy girl, and tell me a story

Move on over here, slow it down

Tell me why you've been run out of town

 

[Chorus 1]

I don't give a fuck why everybody thinks you should shut up

Everybody's freaked, 'cause everybody knows that you're the queen of

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

 

[Verse 2]

Hey, hey, where you going in such a rush?

Hey girl, I think they think you know too much

They can't catch you with me 'cause I move too slow

Slow enough to know that you're gonna have to go

 

[Chorus 2]

I don't really care why the bullshit artists sit and stare

They can never find about me and the queen of

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

 

[Instrumental break]

 

[Outro]

I don't really care why the bullshit artists sit and stare

They can never find about me and the queen of

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

[Buried whispering]

Show it

Show it

Gonna show it

Show it

Gonna show it

Kiss me

Show it

[Verse 1]

This she did in public for us to see

She came in here too drunk to do the show

Between the trains and cars

Broken glass and lost hub-caps, images of a gun

Row house, row house pass through

Let the city rise up to fill the screen

Clothes flung out of closets, doorknobs falling off

The guitar guy played real good feedback, and super sounding riffs

With his mild mannered look on, yeah he was truly hip

The girl started out in red patent leather

Very "I'm in a band" with knee pads

We watch her fall over and lay down

Shouting the poetic truths of high school journal keepers

 

[Verse 2]

Row house row house pass through, let the city rise up

Twister, dust buster, hospital bed, I'll see you, see you

See you on the highway

Now we tone-soul merge ideas, of song forms and freedom

Miss Seafood, Miss Cheesecake, a couple of Miss Donuts

The edge of a blade pressed to the throat of your reflected image

Poised, yet totally screwed up

Yes sir, yes sir, step right up

 

[Bridge]

None of us know, where we're trying to get to

What sort of life?

What we're we trying to build

Now we tone-soul merge ideas, of song forms and freedom

Seasons out of life, nothing is out of reach

L.A. is more confusing now, than anywhere I've ever been to

I'm from New York City, breathe it out and let it in

 

 

[Break]

Where are you now

When your broken eyes are closed?

Head in a cloudy dream, green and sailboats

Borrowed and never returned

Emotions, books, outlooks on life

 

[Outro]

Hello 2015!

Hello 2015!