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Stereo Sanctity Lyrics
[Thurston]
Seven
seven
I'm keeping my commision to faith's transmission
two speakers dream the same and skies turn red
satellite flashing down orchard and delancey
i can't get laid cause everyone is dead
hey! gold connections
analog soul waving in your hair
hey! hylozoic directions
she's talking blue streaks everywhere
your spirit is time-reversed to your body
stereographic mix-up field on field
it started growing up the day your body dies
only apparently, real to irreal
hey! stereo stations
perfect image, kneel down
hey! hypostatic information
come on let's hear you turn it around
Seven
seven
two speakers dream the same and skies turn red
satellite flashing down orchard and delancey
i can't get laid cause everyone is dead
hey! gold connections
analog soul waving in your hair
hey! hylozoic directions
she's talking blue streaks everywhere
your spirit is time-reversed to your body
stereographic mix-up field on field
it started growing up the day your body dies
only apparently, real to irreal
hey! stereo stations
perfect image, kneel down
hey! hypostatic information
come on let's hear you turn it around
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shut On Dec 24, 2001
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Awesome song. I can't believe I'm the first to comment this. You should all be ashamed.
Hell. This song burns my brain. It really rocks.
woo-hoo.
Lee Ranaldo was obsessed with PKD around this time and the whole band read his stuff too. This song is a blatant nod to him. So is The Sprawl from DN.
Seven!
after reading this 3 times and wondering if it just meant nothing i came to the conclusion it has to be drug-realated and recording-related. Stereo Sanctity-has to do with their love for stereo recording (as opposed to using mono) sanctity=holiness the beginning where they yell "seven" has to do with the fact that they would yell the take number for the song when recording. "two speakers dream the same and skies turn red" refers to the left and right speakers and it is my belief that thurston is referencing the apocalypse when the speakers emit the same sounds (blandness) "hey! gold connections analog soul waving in your hair" gold is the best conductor for cords b/c it doesn't cause any buzzing and analog is what style of recording musicians had to use in the 80's until CD's were introduced "hey! hylozoic directions she's talking blue streaks everywhere" hylzoic has to do with the philosophy that all matter has life (maybe suggesting that lsd is a living substance?) and blue streaks is most def an lsd reference as people can usually see sounds as colors (they must have done so much in this period) my last thought is that this song is being recorded and thurston is using his lyrics to communicate to the sound engineer, but hey how can you derive any meaning from a song that was only supposed to only be understood by the arist on acid ~Nick
The album Sister is loosely 'about' Philip K. Dick (PKD had a twin sister who died six weeks after she was born, and this obsessed him throughout his life). I remember Thurston Moore saying in an interview that some of the lyrics for this album were simply plucked from PKD's writings. Given how 'Dickian' the lyrics to Stereo Sanctity are, I'm guessing this is one of those songs.
Right on.
Right on.
Only Apparently Real is a Paul Williams book about PKD's life and "she's talking blue streaks everywhere" comes directly from dialogue in VALIS.
Only Apparently Real is a Paul Williams book about PKD's life and "she's talking blue streaks everywhere" comes directly from dialogue in VALIS.
weird this is downvoted. it's stated in the book confusion is next that the album is mostly about PKD.
weird this is downvoted. it's stated in the book confusion is next that the album is mostly about PKD.