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Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Sonic Youth•1988 Released•Indie Rock•United States

Tracks: 6

Duration: 36:37

Label: Enigma

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Complete Album Tracklist

Teen Age Riot

06:56

Silver Rocket

03:46

The Sprawl

07:39

’Cross the Breeze

07:00

Eric’s Trip

03:46

Total Trash

07:30

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Daydream Nation Complete Lyrics

Silver Rocket Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Snake in it, jack into the wall

TV amp on fire blowing in the hall

Gun your sled, close your peeping toms

Turbo organizer cranking on the knob

[Chorus]

You got it

Yeah, ride your silver rocket

Can't stop it

Burnin' hole in your pocket

[Verse 2]

Hit the power, psycho helmets on

You got to splice your halo, take it to a moon

Nymphoid clamor fueling up the hammer

You got to fake out the robot and pulse up the zoom

[Chorus]

You got it

Yeah, ride your silver rocket

Can't stop it

Burnin' hole in your pocket

[Verse 3]

Can't forget the flashing

Can't forget the smashing

The sending and the bending

The atmosphere re-entry

You gotta have the time

Got another in your mind

Got your heart injected

And you got your soul aligned

[Chorus]

You got it

Yeah, ride your silver rocket

Can't stop it

Burnin' hole in your pocket

’Cross the Breeze Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Let's go walkin' on the water

Come all the way, please

I wanna know

Should I stay or go?

[Verse 2]

No need to be scared

Let's jump into the day

I wanna know

I think I oughta go

[Verse 3]

Close your eyes and make believe

You can do whatever you please

I wanna know

I think I better go

[Verse 4]

Let's go walkin' on the water

Now you think I'm Satan's daughter

I wanna know

Please let me go

[Verse 5]

Just too quick

Now I think I'm gonna be sick

I wanna know

Should I stay or go?

[Verse 6]

I'm trying for the future

It's funny that way

I wanna know

[Verse 7]

I took a look into the hate

It made me feel very up to date

I wanna know

Should I stay or go?

[Verse 8]

Hold me tight, down on my knees

So I don't go burning 'cross the breeze

I wanna know

[Refrain]

I wanna know

Should I stay or go?

[Bridge]

Burning 'cross the breeze

[Instrumental Outro]

Eric’s Trip Lyrics

[Intro]

Achoo, Branca-fest

[Verse 1]

I can't see anything at all

All I see is me

That's clear enough, that's what's important

To see me

My eyes can focus, my brain is talking

It looks pretty good to me

My head's on straight, my girlfriend's beautiful

It looks pretty good to me

[Pre-Chorus]

Sometimes I speak

Tonight there's nothing to say

Sometimes we freak

And laugh all day

[Chorus]

Hold these pages up to the light

See the jackknife inside of the dream

A railroad runs through the record stores at night

Coming in for the deep freeze (Mary)

[Verse 2]

A simple word

Are you there in the cold country?

Your eyes so full and your head so tight

Can't you hear me?

Remember our talk that day on the phone?

I said I was the door and you were the station

With shattered glass and miles between us

We still flew away in the conversation

[Pre-Chorus]

My cup is full

And I feel okay

The world is dull

But not today

[Chorus]

She thinks she's a goddess

She says she'll talk to the spirits

I wonder if she can talk to herself

If she can bear to hear it

[Bridge]

This is Eric's trip

We've all come to watch him slip

He's slipping all the way to Texas

Can you dig it?

[Verse 3]

I see with a glass eye

The pavement view

A shadow forming across fields, rushing

Through me to you

We tore down the world, we put up four walls

I breathe in the myth

I'm over the city, fucking the future

I'm high and inside your kiss

[Pre-Chorus]

We can't see clear

But what we see is alright

We make up what we can't hear

Then we sing all night

[Chorus]

Scattered pages and shattered lights

See the jackknife, see the dream

There's something moving over there to the right

Like nothing I've ever seen