Tom Violence
By: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore
Original Performance: Sonic Youth
Written by: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore
Lyrics:Tom Violence [Version (a)]:
[from SY's original]
My violence is a dream, a real dream
A skinny arm, a crush on living sin
My violence is a sleeping head, nodding out to rising bliss
I left home for experience, carved "suck for honesty" on my chest
My violence is the number, coming out of prayer
Find it in the father, find it in a girl
There's a thing in my memory, holding on for dear life
With a feeling of secrets beating up under my flesh
My tongue is tied, I'm sleeping nights awake
Tom Violence is a dream, coming out of a girl
The Song:This is a Sonic Youth song, from their album
Evol.
Beck covered all of
Evol for some sort of Sonic Youth box set, but it never was released or leaked or anything. (One song, "Green Light," did end up on a single.)