Don't Think You Wanna

"Everything I say; Comes back to me one day; Everything you do; Comes back to stare at you."

Something you did in the past, that haunts (or affects) your future.

no comments? this is everywhere, great song

Wow I can't believe people haven't commented on this but beyond stating the obvious, I'll write my comment. This song, I think is about for some reason about older men having sex with younger, underage girls. The whole bit about being in the sky and being almost "holy" and "pure," made me think about school girls and how they sometimes try to seduce older men. It's basically almost like the girls won't regret it because theyre young and dumb and almost innocent but the older men will because it is just pathetic of them. Well, yeah, whatever, that's just my interrpetation.

Considering that Sleater-Kinney is a straight up riot grrrl band, I highly doubt that if the song was about older men going after underage girls, they'd be presenting it in a way that makes the girls seem dumb or even naïve. The way she sings it, there's nothing "pure" about being up in the sky, it sounds confused and chaotic. Like a young girl who's expected to be all holy and angelic but is (surprise!) more complex than that, she's saying these things with a sort of manic irony. When she says "I know what you are" does that come off as dumb? I don't think that's some far-off narrator talking, if we're sticking to your interpretation, it would make way more sense if that was the underage girl speaking to some predatory creep. That's what makes it so punk. I mean that's not even the story I associated with this song, but looking it from that angle, it seems to me that the girl would be the wiser character in the narrative. She says "Everything I say comes back to me one day," as in she will (as a girl who is seen as desirable) be unable to avoid a bad reputation because she's always going to be under the paradoxical scrutiny that accompanies sexism in our culture. Meanwhile, even if the man won't have to pay such an obvious price, the immoral decisions he makes will still be hanging around him, staring at him like ghosts.