What A Waste Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mote71 

Cover art for What A Waste lyrics by Sonic Youth

Sounds to me like a girl with empty-meaningless life who has a lot of empty-meaningless sex. The girl is looking at the guy's chasteness as a waste, but the only waste is the girl. And I'm not saying that because I'm a prune or anything, It's because it seems like the girl in the song feels like having sex will give her some kind of thrill, meaning or some sort of power. Dull creation, Cheap legacy - Those are just unsuccessful things made in the search towards a meaningful-cool-creative life.

This song is really about finding meaning; I think the paragraph is describing her failing at it.

My Opinion

Actually, throughout the whole song there are facts that indicates of her failure.