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Murray Street by Sonic Youth - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Sonic Youth2002 ReleasedIndie RockUnited States
Tracks: 8
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Duration: 56:12
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Label: Geffen Records

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

The Empty Page

04:20
2

Disconnection Notice

06:24
3

Rain on Tin

07:56
4

Karen Revisited

11:10
5

Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style

04:27
6

Plastic Sun

02:14
7

Sympathy for the Strawberry

12:06
8

Street Sauce

07:32
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Murray Street Complete Lyrics

Karen Revisited Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Heard your name the other day
It's been a long, long time
Ancient history, some would say
Another state of mind
You smell of memory
Felt-tipped electric child
 
[Chorus 1]
She takes a plastic pill
She plays the weatherman
She screams "Religion kills
More than it saves you, man"
She painted filigrees
She was the acid queen
She claims society
Is just a fever dream
 
[Verse 2]
Now you live in the trees and salty seas
Tripping out in the blue skies
You shut the door on everything
Too busy getting high
And me, just another dream theory
Lost inside your eyes
 
 
[Chorus 2]
She's not in your history books
Lost her mind and kept her looks
Down beneath the radar screen
She's lit up like gasoline
Been through a million kicks
Looking for the one that sticks
Never would've known it then
I might not see her again
 
[Bridge]
Top hats and tails for thrills
Red lips and famous hands
Sidelong and glancing still
In tiny dancer land
We kissed
Time slipped
Hard edged
Tight lipped
See you
Some time
Ask me if I care
Karen
Miss communication
Karen
Karen
 
 
[Instrumental Outro]

Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Send the moon through the skylight
Bells together outrageously
Noiseball, flirtatious example
Bless her soul to further degree
Theater goddess, film destroyer
New York girls are sure to enjoy her
Fuzzy peach, teenage computer
A shocking figure in the eye of the universe
 
[Verse 2]
I am dead by the beauty of strangers
In horror my eye-head transforms them
Into smiling beatific roommates
From dust to dust they create rock and roll
Here comes something: you are Lou Reed
Transformer cracked by the backyard stream
Killer tunes, bubblegum disaster
Radical adults lick godhead style

Plastic Sun Lyrics

[Chorus]
Plastic girl with plastic gun
Plastic smile under plastic sun
You burn my heart with your frigid stare
Rip me off with your greasy hair
I hate you and your fishy friends
I hate you and it never ends
 
[Chorus]
Plastic girl with plastic gun
Plastic smile under plastic sun
You burn my heart with your frigid stare
Rip me off with your greasy hair
I hate you and your fishy friends
I hate you and it never ends
 
[Verse]
Tired of the times I wound up dead
Tired of the dogs inside your head
Tired of the needles beside your bed
Tired of the crap you keep me fed
Tired of the people you keep misled
Your blood is turning my blue eyes red
Get your hands off my tomato
Cherry juice on a rotten potato
Subway slasher's on my ass
Steals my money and smokes my grass
Watch your back or you're dead meat baby
Throw a dog a bone and you still get rabies
 
 
[Chorus]
Plastic girl with plastic gun
Plastic smile under plastic sun
You burn my heart with your frigid stare
Rip me off with your greasy hair
I hate you and your fishy friends
I hate you and it never ends