Hey Joni Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Fradgenous 

Cover art for Hey Joni lyrics by Sonic Youth

I think it's about a girl trying to find herself. I love the "she's a beautiful mental jukebox, a sailboat explosion, as snap of electric whipcrack" I think it's describing the intricacies of her brain/mental processes. Her brain is a "mental jukebox" whose neurons are firing and dying like wires on a sailboat when it explodes. Also, a sailboat wouldn't really explode on it's own because there's no engine...nothing to explode. So, there has to be something external to make these whipcracking/snapping wires snap and crack. Perhaps drugs. Possibly acid or any drug that you take to have these types on internal epiphanies.