Little Trouble Girl

I think I agree with peace frog. it is pretty obvious it is about a girl remembering about her relationship about her mother, and how her mother tried to prepare her for "womanhood", or rather, what her mother envisioned her the daughter's life as a woman. there a few lines in the lyrics that suggest the daughter eventually broke with this conception, and perhaps with the mother aswell.

I think the daughter sees this way of being a woman, with curly hair and lashes, lips done up etc as being fake, and not her true self. maybe this is relfected by the title and chorus of the song "little trouble girl" and "but you'll never know, what I feel inside, that I'm Really bad". maybe suggesting what the mother envisioned for the daughter is not in line with her personality at all.

when she met the man, she was set free "floating in the sky". the line "rather fight than have to lie" could mean the girl would rather stand up and be herself, even if it means problems in her relationships, rather than being a submissive woman like her mother encouraged her to become.

thats my take anyhow.

I think it's about a woman who taught her daughter to be a sterotypical housewife. Always putting on make-up and looking pretty for men. Then, she fell in love with a guy and the mother-daughter relationship faded away. Such an amzing song. "Washing Machine" is SY's best.

whatever the idea, it's sung in a way so that it sounds like the narrator has a big secret... creepy really

that line "romance is a ticket to paradise" it gets stuck in my head and i love it! but whats with kim gordon alway talking about her mother? not only in this song but in others too like tunic song for karen ...etc

I use to sing this song changing the verse "we were close; very, very close" for "we were close; very, f****in close" just for the kick of it... kind of ads a little despise for the mother.

To me, it sings to the mother saying "you didn't prepare me for the plasures of the flesh", no warning on the overwelming power of desire. Whatever relationship we had an thought so indestructible flew away with the first huff and puff of the wolf.

I always thought the song was the beginning of a conversation where a teenage girl tells her mother that she is pregnant. Contrasting the general conformist, right wing tone of the mother's hypocritical "lessons" of "not this/then this," and the aspects of reality presented by the daughter who narrates the song.

That's Kim Deal from the Pixies singing with Kim on this song.

I think it's about a woman who taught her daughter to be a sterotypical housewife. Always putting on make-up and looking pretty for men. Then, she fell in love with a guy and the mother-daughter relationship faded away. Such an amzing song. "Washing Machine" is SY's best.

I have always wondered just what this song was about. The mother-daughter idea sounds pretty right.. In the clip, there is this weird alien thing and i didn't really know how that fitted in, hmm... anyway, Sonic Youth are amazing! timeless..

this is the best song i've ever heard