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

Versions:
  1. Tom Violence
 
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.)