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Sonic Nurse by Sonic Youth - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Sonic Youth•2004 Released•Indie Rock•United States
Tracks: 11
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Duration: 1:06:50
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Label: Geffen Records

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

Pattern Recognition

06:33
2

Unmade Bed

03:53
3

Dripping Dream

07:46
4

Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream

04:51
5

Stones

07:08
6

Dude Ranch Nurse

05:44
7

New Hampshire

05:12
8

Paper Cup Exit

05:56
9

I Love You Golden Blue

07:03
10

Peace Attack

06:40
11

Kim Chords

05:59
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Sonic Nurse Complete Lyrics

Pattern Recognition Lyrics

[Intro]
I'm a cool hunter making you my way
Like a brand name you'll replay
 
[Chorus]
I will know you
I won't show you, yeah yeah
You're the one
You're the one
You're the one
You're the one
 
[Verse 1]
Heat-seeking missile freak
Black magick
Scared to speak
I will know you
I won't show you, yeah yeah
Will you buy me a shaky heart
Let's forget has torn me apart
 
[Chorus]
I will know you
I won't show you, yeah yeah
You're the one
You're the one
You're the one
You're the one
 
 
[Bridge]
Can you sell me
Yesterday's girl
Because everyday I feel more like her
Oh baby baby
Please don't go
Pattern recognition
Is kind of slow
 
[Verse 2]
Like a cool hunter watch the disarray
Keep your secret foolish head away
I will know you
I won't show you, yeah yeah
Close your eyes and feel the fun
Pattern recognition's on the run
 
[Chorus]
I will know you
I won't show you, yeah yeah
You're the one
You're the one
You're the one
You're the one

Dripping Dream Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Single fold sick insert design in junk
Grocery bag sleeve all the colours drunk
Texts of confusion and joy
Pink plastic pressing for bratfink
 
[Chorus]
That's right
He's gone
Wrapped up
Chiffon
Sealed tight
Hung up
Street mouth
Sad pup
 
[Verse 2]
Shards of sweetshine of voice and flute
Street mouth decodes the blues-king dude
Girlfriends will love the way we clip
Our split release on the thrash man
 
[Chorus]
On top
A drop
Fake blood
Fresh mud
They're gone
For good
Except
This one
 
 
[Verse 3]
Howling scriptures to the mother earth
O mother Africa awake your son
To all the mommas with the money eyes
This kind of love comes as no surprise
 
[Bridge]
Caught shadow
In sex meadow
Little darlings describe the scene
Purring notions of the dripping dream
We've been searching for the cream dream wax
Lathe killers make the meters crack
 
Caught shadow
In sex meadow
Purring notions of the dripping dream
The kind of girls with the money eyes
Howling scriptures to the mother earth
Oh mother Africa awake your son
 
Caught shadow
In sex meadow
Little darlings describe the scene
To all the mommas with the money eyes
Purring notions of the dripping dream
This kind of love comes in any size
 
 
[Verse 4]
Sensation shaking us from sleep
Hey Ethiopia, we're free
The dripping dream in cream-of-wax
Disk drops from your hand and it cracks

Stones Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Lights on the stones on backed-up drain
What lovers list on languid stain
We've come together to gather star
Shooting up stones a pallored heart
 
[Bridge]
The dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are alright
With me
 
[Chorus]
We're not gonna run away
We're not gonna leave you stranger
We turn the light on your lonely home
 
[Verse 2]
Camera on the haunted stones
Blood-shadow gentle painted scorn
Now it's dancing ink across your skin
Hieroglyphic-lover nature-friend
 
[Bridge]
The dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are alright
With me
 
 
[Chorus]
We're not gonna run away
We're not gonna leave you stranger
We turn the light on your lonely home

Paper Cup Exit Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Skimming the tops of tall trees
Through the clear light of free speech
A sudden memory disease
Claims the air all around me
I'm getting lost in the slipstream
Maybe relive the same dream
Of coming in from the cold
And losing half of my soul
 
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Memory disease
Across United States
That I had told the truth
Feel so high
Architectural
I look to the skies
To see our bodies
 
[Chorus 1]
They were rising up
Out of the paper cup
A sea change is due
Idols in fescue
Touchdown on the new Mason-Dixon Line
The map is ripped and torn
Tilted frame with all hope gone
And I don't mind if you sing a different song
Sing a different song
Just as long as you sing
As you sing, sing along
 
 
[Bridge]
It's later than it seems
It's later than it seems
It's later than it seems
Time everyone came clean
 
It's what you didn't say
It's what you didn't say
Don't wanna be a slave
It's what you didn't
 
[Verse 2]
Skimming the tops of tall trees
Through the clear light of free speech
I'm coming in for a landing
I've got a soul understanding
It all comes down to a word
It's just like nothing, I heard
Over the rainbow in time
Will be one hell of a climb
 
[Pre-Chorus 2]
High lights, bright
Life
Sweep pie clear sky
Sky
Reminiscent
Of honey in your eye
Unwind
Saturnalia
 
 
[Chorus 2]
I don't mind if you sing a different song
Sing a different song
Just as long as you sing
As you sing, sing along
 
[Outro]
It's later than it seems
It's later than it seems
It's later than it seems
New ears are listening
It's what you didn't say
It's what you didn't say
Don't wanna be a slave
It's what you didn't say
Nothing to give away