Plastic girl with plastic gun
Plastic smile under plastic sun
You burn my heart with your frigid stare
Rip me off with your greasy hair
I hate you and your fishy friends
I hate you and it never ends

Plastic girl with plastic gun
Plastic smile under plastic sun
You burn my heart with your frigid stare
Rip me off with your greasy hair
I hate you and your fishy friends
I hate you and it never ends

Tired of the times I wound up dead
Tired of the dogs inside your head
Tired of the needles beside your bed
Tired of the crap you keep me fed
Tired of the people you keep misled
Your blood is turning my blue eyes red
Get your hands off my tomato
Cherry juice on a rotten potato
Subway slasher's on my ass
Steals my money and smokes my grass
Watch your back or you're dead meat baby
Throw a dog a bone and you still get rabies

Plastic girl with plastic gun
Plastic smile under plastic sun
You burn my heart with your frigid stare
Rip me off with your greasy hair
I hate you and your fishy friends
I hate you and it never ends


Lyrics submitted by White Trash

Plastic Sun Lyrics as written by Kim Gordon Jim O'rourke

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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    General Comment

    song rocks... it sounds angry... sigh sonic youth rocks!

    MyFriendGoOon March 23, 2003   Link
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    General Comment

    Im not sure if this is about a heroine addict or a speed addict. Speed tastes like plastic and can be shot up (the "Plastic gun" is a syringe).

    Matamoroson January 09, 2005   Link
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    General Comment

    This is a song about a pop star, i.e. Britney Spears. The way pop culture and tv star heroes define public ideals and worldview. It's all just cheap brainwashing, in fact. That's it, Kim expresses her hate of pop.

    Foogazion February 27, 2005   Link
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    this is one of sonic youth's worse songs. thurston wrote it for kim to sing. murray street was just a disaster for the most part.

    Debassplayeron May 24, 2005   Link
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    General Comment

    Arrrgh that song is annoying as hell. I agree with Foogazi on the meaning.

    OpiumForThePeopleon July 25, 2005   Link
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    General Comment

    I disagree, I like the song alot, its not their best work by any stretch, but it's still a nice little song. And I liked Murray Street in it's entirety. shrug

    BangYrHeadon June 11, 2006   Link
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    I like it.

    Saltwateron August 20, 2006   Link
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    General Comment

    It's just about artificiality in general - pop music, fashion, designer culture - it's all fake, it's all show.

    And yeah, this song annoys the hell out of me, but I guess that's the point - it sounds like its message.

    Arkyopterixon July 09, 2007   Link
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    haha yeh this song is really good, the music reminds me of a machine mass producing pop stars for our consumption

    lennon18on September 07, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    I actually quite like this song although it does get repetitive. Don't know about anyone else but I instantly thought of Courtney Love when I heard it and the rivalry which according to Courtney is still ongoing. But Courtney will blab on about anything to get press. Other than that yeah, it's all sex, drugs and botox, pretty literal song. Not bad.

    THEXTREMISTon December 04, 2007   Link

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