Sonic Youth

What A Waste

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[Kim]

Hey, give me hollow stimulation
It's so sleazy to be free
Let's invest in dull creation
Thrill city, cheap legacy

What a waste
You're so chaste
I can't wait,
to taste your face

Private signals lead me to you
A sublime, spectacular dud
Safe and sound from childhood confusion
Get the picture? Yes, it's clear as mud

What a waste
You're so chaste
I can't wait,
to taste your face

Hey, give me hollow stimulation
It's so sleazy to be free
Let's invest in dull creation
Thrill city, cheap legacy

What a waste
You're so chaste
I can't wait,
to taste your face

I wouldn't lead you on
Ever since you saw me
You could of had it all,
but you didn't call me

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rather_dirty_nation On Apr 15, 2006

Tunic (Song for Karen)

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2006-04-15 18:16:44

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by bug18

18y ago

She's wanting to have someone, and taste it. It's a song about flirting, sex, and after all, confusion is sex... you can hear this on that song. The fact is she can't wait anymore...it's being a waste (probably of meat, hehehhehe)

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by mote71

17y ago

Sounds to me like a girl with empty-meaningless life who has a lot of empty-meaningless sex. The girl is looking at the guy's chasteness as a waste, but the only waste is the girl. And I'm not saying that because I'm a prune or anything, It's because it seems like the girl in the song feels like having sex will give her some kind of thrill, meaning or some sort of power. Dull creation, Cheap legacy - Those are just unsuccessful things made in the search towards a meaningful-cool-creative life.

This song is really about finding meaning; I think the paragraph is describing her failing at it.

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by mote71 17y ago

Actually, throughout the whole song there are facts that indicates of her failure.

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