This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Waking up I see you dreaming of a drive in
Open your eyes to see TV-set on blue
I've been waiting for you to smile, I'm the great head freezin'
Wintertime comes summer, you are why it's happenin' to me
Sugar babe, sugar babe do it to me
Do me babe, do me babe can't you see me?
Sugar now, sugar now do it to me
Do me babe, do me babe can't you see me?
I feel the morning slip in sights into your mirror
Now I see what you might see it's pretty clear
I been looking just to feel that funny feelin'
I don't know but it's a mystery to reckon, right you
Sugar babe, sugar babe do it to me
Do me babe, do me babe can't you see me?
I'm sugar now, sugar now do it to me
Take me babe, take me babe can't you see me?
Open your eyes to see TV-set on blue
I've been waiting for you to smile, I'm the great head freezin'
Wintertime comes summer, you are why it's happenin' to me
Sugar babe, sugar babe do it to me
Do me babe, do me babe can't you see me?
Sugar now, sugar now do it to me
Do me babe, do me babe can't you see me?
I feel the morning slip in sights into your mirror
Now I see what you might see it's pretty clear
I been looking just to feel that funny feelin'
I don't know but it's a mystery to reckon, right you
Sugar babe, sugar babe do it to me
Do me babe, do me babe can't you see me?
I'm sugar now, sugar now do it to me
Take me babe, take me babe can't you see me?
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I love this song to death. I first heard it in a Toy Machine skate video called "Welcome to Hell". This was my introduction to Sonic Youth.
I think this song is about wanting more than what you have. Knowning something is missing in your life, and taking a guess at what you need/want.
I think it's about a lady who left him, and he couldn't get turned on; he was "frozen" during "wintertime" which was triggered by her leaving. She comes bringing "summertime", making things hot again and turning him on. All of it's because of her; she's summer and winter. "sugar babe... do it to me... do me now" He's been waiting for that "funny feeling" sex? Or maybe it's all about drugs(the lyrics fit for both). but "I don't know, it's a mystery to reckon with"
sorry about this double-post, but i think on the track-listing on the back of the CD, the word 'expose' has an accent on it ("exposé") - which makes it 'a declaration of facts', as opposed to the verb enkidu stated. in this case, it is a declaration of facts about titanium. if we tie it in with enkidu's definition of titanium, the 'titanium exposé" is the guy revealing his titanium - his hardness, etc, which is brought on by the girl's return. so i think it's about sex, but love too.
sorry about this double-post, but i think on the track-listing on the back of the CD, the word 'expose' has an accent on it ("exposé") - which makes it 'a declaration of facts', as opposed to the verb enkidu stated. in this case, it is a declaration of facts about titanium. if we tie it in with enkidu's definition of titanium, the 'titanium exposé" is the guy revealing his titanium - his hardness, etc, which is brought on by the girl's return. so i think it's about sex, but love too.
on the live version kim says "shiverin' babe" instead of sugar babe
the lyrics here are wrong. the chorus is in fact "sugar babe, sugar babe, turn the TV, turn it babe, turn it babe, can't you see me? sugar now, sugar now, turn the TV, turn it babe, turn it babe, can't you see me? check on sonicyouth.com if you don't believe me.
the lyrics are right, wat are you talking about??
I think wiggy is right. "Turn your (or the) TV" sounds a lot more like what she's saying and it makes a lot more sense with "Can't you see me?"
But either way, phenomenal song, phenomenal album.
Sonic Youth lyrics are hilarious because they make even LESS sense than the lyrics of that (I'll say it) charlatan Bob Dylan
i think it's about wanting more also but at the same time forgetting what you do have and realizing it in an instant.