SONIC YOUTH LYRICS - Teenage Riot

"Teenage Riot"



[Kim]

You're it

No, you're it

Hey, you're really it

You're it

No I mean it, you're it



Say it

Don't spray it

Spirit desire (face me)

Spirit desire (don't displace me)

Spirit desire

We will fall



Miss me

Don't dismiss me



Spirit desire



Spirit desire [x3]

We will fall

Spirit desire

We will fall

Spirit desire [x3]

We will fall

Spirit desire

We will fall



[Thurston]

Everybody's talking 'bout the stormy weather

And what's a man do to but work out whether it's true?

Looking for a man with a focus and a temper

Who can open up a map and see between one and two



Time to get it

Before you let it

Get to you



Here he comes now

Stick to your guns

And let him through



Everybody's coming from the winter vacation

Taking in the sun in a exaltation to you

You come running in on platform shoes

With Marshall stacks

To at least just give us a clue

Ah, here it comes

I know it's someone I knew



Teenage riot in a public station

Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you



Now I see it

I think I'll leave it out of the way

Now I come near you

And it's not clear why you fade away



Looking for a ride to your secret location

Where the kids are setting up a free-speed nation, for you

Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin'

And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do me for now



It better work out

I hope it works out my way

'Cause it's getting kind of quiet in my city's head

Takes a teen age riot to get me out of bed right now



You better look it

We're gonna shake it

Up to him



He acts the hero

We paint a zero

On his hand



We know it's down

We know it's bound too loose

Everybody's sound is round it

Everybody wants to be proud to choose

So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather

You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze



It's time to go round

A one man showdown

Teach us how to fail



We're off the streets now

And back on the road

On the riot trail