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"
You're prefect in the way
A perfect end today
You're burning out their lies
and burning in their eyes
i love you sugar kane
coming from the rain
kiss me like a frog
turn me into flame
i love you all time
i need you eight to nine
i can stay all night
your bodie's shining
and i know
there's something down there sugar soul
back to the cross a twisted lane
there something down there Sugar Kane
i'm back again in love
i'm back again a dove
where'd you get your lie
your smiling sugar life
another lovers day
another cracked up night
every night i say
light is coming
and i know
there's something down there sugar cone
back to the cross a twisted lane
there's something down there Sugar Kane
angel come and play
you fly me away
a stroll along the beach
until you're out of time
i love you Sugar Kane
a crack into the dream
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar
A perfect end today
You're burning out their lies
and burning in their eyes
i love you sugar kane
coming from the rain
kiss me like a frog
turn me into flame
i love you all time
i need you eight to nine
i can stay all night
your bodie's shining
and i know
there's something down there sugar soul
back to the cross a twisted lane
there something down there Sugar Kane
i'm back again in love
i'm back again a dove
where'd you get your lie
your smiling sugar life
another lovers day
another cracked up night
every night i say
light is coming
and i know
there's something down there sugar cone
back to the cross a twisted lane
there's something down there Sugar Kane
angel come and play
you fly me away
a stroll along the beach
until you're out of time
i love you Sugar Kane
a crack into the dream
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar Kane
i love you Sugar
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You're almost certainly right. I also love this song. That middle section is awesome.
Actually, 'Sugar Kane' was Marilyn Monroe's character in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.
This is the most upbeat playful song SY has offered me. The chorus is vibrant and almost a bit poppy. I can't believe it only has a bit of comments either.
HOW did no one post coomments on this song this song rocks and so dos sonic youth most underrated band
This song sounds like its about cocaine. Sugar (looks kinda like coke), Kane (CocaCAINE).
and burning in their eyes Cocaine makes your eyes HUGE
i love you all time i need you eight to nine i can stay all night your bodie's shining He is addicted to coke, needs it all the time. He can stay all night because coke makes you unable to sleep
angel come and play you fly me away Obviously talking about a cocaine high
There are more references but these are the most obvious ones. Check out Candle or Star Power if your looking for a song about speed.
i cant believe this song ONLY HAS 4 COMMENTS it's like the greatest song eva, okay i've said that about a few SY songs now but this one has a special place in my heart ... for sure
Sugar Kane is the first sonic Youth song I've ever listened. Lovely song with such pretty lyrics. (I didn't know it could be about cocaine tough, I'm glad that I checked this page.)
decent song for ages i thought it was "hey joe come and play" in the last verse sounded pretty good as i well i thought
As much as the name suggests cocaine I can't help but feel in every vein in my body that this song is about good 'ol Mary Jane. Think about it. First of all, the mellow feel to the whole tune, the lyrics(getting to this shortly) and the fact that I can't imagine Sonic Youth as coke fiends.
Ok, so lets analyze:
You're prefect in the way A perfect end today (a joint at the end of the day? a perfect end to the day, one seldom does coke when one is about to go to bed)
You're burning out their lies and burning in their eyes (red, dry eyes with dilated pupils. Also a reference to burning suggest that this is about a drug that is inhaled as smoke)
i love you sugar kane coming from the rain kiss me like a frog turn me into flame (turns your world into magic and mystery, he loves the sugah kane, self explanatory. Also, flame bit another reference to smoke inhalation)
I'm just gonna pick out the most interesting parts now, a lot of it is self-explanatory
i'm back again in love i'm back again a dove (you smoke it and the world is magic again, taking coke wouldn't make you feel like a dove, as he states)
every night i say light is coming (he lights up every evening, another luminous experience every night)
Angel come and play part is self-explanatory
The main reason as to why I am 100% sure this song is about marijuana though, is because of the lines: i love you Sugar Kane a crack into the dream
A crack into the dream eh? Sounds like a spot-on description of a THC high.
That's my opinion anyway.
it is about weed or possibly both, but good weed nugs look like they have sugar on them,....Wait i know! it's marijuana laced with coke!<br /> ~Nick
I love this song. Always joke that it's about me, my surname being Kane. ^.^