Artist: Sonic Youth Album: NYC Ghosts and Flowers (2000) Title: Small Flowers Crack Concrete
Lyrics Small Flowers Crack ConcreteSmall flowers crack concrete
Narcotic squads sweep thru poet dens
Spilling coffee grabbing 15 yr old runaway girls
By frazzled ponytailed hair + tossing them
Into backseats of cop cars
The narcs beat the bearded oracles
Replacing tantric love with
Complete violence
Lights + mirrors dot the city
Inkstained hippies w/ boxed lunch + marijuana
Mystery plays of shit and nothingness
Blessed by colors from a black hat
Blue lights search thru weeds
Searching for the heart of D.A.Levy
And the mind he left behind
What did you expect? Another mystic wreck?
That’s what you got crawling in yr panic net
What did you bring me? Not a goddamn thing yet
+ What did you leave me? Another tombstone dream yeh
O salacious mansion, the boys held for ransom
Did ya see where he's gone? The blasted summers dawn
Fucked up in Cleveland fucked up in Cleveland
Short flight to nothing heavens up to something heavens up to something
Levy’s up to something, Levy’s up to something
Death poems for the living gods of America
Plastic saxophones bleat, bleed for nothing, nada
Cops crashing thru doors infuriated by silver charms
Of suburban smoke
At war with patches of red dirt glitter
And blue jean fucking
+ Protest |