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Bad Moon Rising by Sonic Youth - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Sonic Youth1985 ReleasedIndie RockUnited States
Tracks: 8
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Duration: 37:27
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Label: Homestead Records

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

Intro

01:10
2

Brave Men Run (In My Family)

03:37
3

Society Is a Hole

05:54
4

I Love Her All the Time

07:28
5

Ghost Bitch

05:40
6

I'm Insane

04:07
7

Justice Is Might

04:21
8

Death Valley ’69

05:10
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Bad Moon Rising Complete Lyrics

Society Is a Hole Lyrics

8 ContributorsSociety Is a Hole LyricsThe second track on Sonic Youth’s 1985 album, Bad Moon Rising.
 
 
 
The track begins with a sample from Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. For the last 50 seconds of the song, Not Right by The Stooges, although… Read More Society is a hole
It makes me lie to my friends
It's running down my street
With white powers sneakers
On the beautiful beat of black feet
Society is a hole
 
It beats my friends big heads
My friends have big heads
I can understand it
But I don't recommend it
You got big big hair
And everybody is scared
 
Society is a hole
It makes me lie to my friends
The assault of holy noise
There's a slap in my face
My friends are girls wrapped in boys
We're living in pieces
I want to live in peace
Society is a hole

I'm Insane Lyrics

8 ContributorsI’m Insane LyricsThe sixth track on Sonic Youth’s 1985 album, Bad Moon Rising, following Ghost Bitch.Love starved backwood 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
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
The sky is red
And I can't stop running
 
 
Her baby stares
The secret's there
So help us god
I'll swing at your funeral
 
The stubborn air
The killer mob
A red bone woman
A double cross
 
Big fake bitter love
Underbelly freezing jungle
 
One step more, he'll stir your senses
Scratch your surface and nail your head
 
Murdered angels
Bodies in bedlam
A women scorned
You can't hang me
 
Tied to my job a blast scene alibi
Tied to a tree in a blind alley
 
Nothing before
A big fear
Don't get caught
By her father's friends
 
 
Swamp girl faded
The tiger's wife
A frenzied love
Hot climate
 
Twisted passions
Flesh parade
Dead ahead
A world so wide
 
Big river love camp
The house boy and hill girl
The agony column
 
Don't crowd me
It's time for crime
Strange breed river girl's misery index
 
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
 
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
 
 
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane