Original Performance: Sonic Youth
Written by: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore
Lyrics:[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