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'Cross the Breeze Lyrics

Let's go walking on the water
Come all the way please
I wanna know
Should I stay or go?

No need to be scared
Let's jump into the day
I wanna know
I think I oughta go

Close your eyes and make believe
You can do whatever you please
I wanna know
I think I better go

Let's go walkin on water
Now you think I'm Satan's daughter
I wanna know
Please let me go!

Just too quick
Now I think I'm gonna be sick
I wanna know
Should I stay or go?

I'm trying for the future
It's funny that way
I wanna know
I wanna know!

I took a look into the hate
It made me feel very up to date
I wanna know
Should I stay or go?

Hold me tight, down on my knees
So I don't go burning 'cross the breeze
I wanna know
I wanna know!

I wanna know
Should I stay or go?

Burning 'cross the breeze
Burning 'cross the breeze
Blowing 'cross the breeze
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sex drugs and sonic youth

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This song is painfully under-rated. I personally think it's the best song off DDN.

Defninitley a strong contender.

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"just like every other Sonic Youth song"

fuck off, moron

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this song looks kinda sex-related(don't most their songs?),but when kim shout out "i wanna know i wanna know",her voice is...it definitely mean something.it sounds very sad,angry and also scared.

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yes because of course it has to be one or the other rolls eyes

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This might seem explaination too simple, but I think it's about wanting to know what to do with yourself. She keeps saying 'i wanna know', and makes a comment about the future. She asking someone to come with her somewhere, like she doesn't want to be alone when she's trying to figure things out.

I like this explanation .. that's how it sounds to me. Partly it reminds me of waking up the next day with someone perhaps you don't know very well?

/No need to be scared Let's jump into the day I wanna know I think I oughta go/

She wants to be certain about how she feels but has no idea.

/I wanna know Should I stay or go?/

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Sometimes I think this is the best song of all time.

@glitcHead hahaha, great man!!

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whats this song about? according to kim, "flirting with the devil"

I think this song is about being saved. The reference to walking on water could be referring to Jesus, then midway in the verse when she says "you think i'm satans daughter" is referring to her being judged based on the things she does. The fact that she doesn't want to go burning 'cross the breeze' could be referring to going to hell. Especially because the guitars and drums get hectic towards the end. I love it. haha

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I highly highly doubt Sonic Youth would write anything pro-Christian given their very progressive leanings. If anything, the song seems to be loosely about how women who are sexually powerful are marginalized, which is kind of what half of Kim's songs are about. The "walking on water" part is I think meant to highlight the difference between the female speaker and the male Jesus. Jesus walks on water so he's the son of Christ. The speaker walks on water so she's the daughter of Satan.

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let's so walking on the water -an invitation to go for a walk, to talk, be in con-verse-(with verse) ation.... in this context (familiar, as miraculous, with someone named jesus to many but here, incidental). it is to be exclusive of all the mundane common bindings of human existence. ideas of religion, nationality, even language, time frame are irrelevant.... as an... immortal or myth... In this encounter while walking (moving, drifting thinking along ...) close your eyes and make believe you can do whatever you please... consider but not limit to: "Make, Be, Leave" imagine yourself... manifest, then go on, be on your way fly fly fly... should i...

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My first thought is that it fits perfectly to lucid dreaming and 'out of body experience'

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Theres alot of drug references in this song and/or images of hallucination: "lets go walking on the water" etc which could also be a biblical reference but then there is also the references to relationship's "should i stay or go?" but that could be about her trying to get off drugs....maybe.