What We Know Lyrics

Lyric discussion by meg; 

Cover art for What We Know lyrics by Sonic Youth

this song is amazing. as is the entire album, the eternal.

i have a feeling this song is about a guy and a prostitute, or at least a girl with a "reputation". thus they don't know a lot about each other, and so "what they know" is that he is lonely ("darkness makes the night turn cold") and she can satisfy him ("forever means the night turns gold").