Satan Is Boring Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Cynothoglys 

Cover art for Satan Is Boring lyrics by Sonic Youth

This song was inspired by an incident in New Jersey in 1984 where a young man and his friends got high on PCP and, inspired by the Satanic imagery in the metal music t/he/y listened to, kidnapped and tortured a teenager nearly to death. Namely, the idea of Satan being nothing compared to the evil within "ordinary" people. It's also a brush-off of heavy metal acts who use Satanic symbols as a shock tactic, which I agree is... boring.