“Gold Soundz” was voted the best song of the 90s by Pitchfork, a seminal indie online magazine. The song deals with the loss of love in the midst of a breakup.
In Stephen Malkmus' track notes for the re-release of “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” he describes the track simply as “Gold Soundz – a self d...
[Verse 1]
Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to your self
Because it's nothing I don't like
Is it a crisis or a boring change?
When it's central, so essential
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low-life opinions
And they're coming to the chorus now
[Chorus]
I keep my address to yourself 'cause we need secrets
We need secret-cret-cret-cret-crets back right now
[Verse 2]
Because I never wanna make you feel
That you're social, never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain?
And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
The trial's over, the weapon's found
[Chorus]
Keep my address to myself because it's secret
'Cause it's secret-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret
'Cret-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret back right now
[Verse 3]
So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty and I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won't need you when I'm gone?
And if I go there, I won't stay there
Because I'm sitting here too long
[Chorus]
I've been sitting here too long
And I've been wasted, advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up, all you've got to waste
Gold Soundz was written by Stephen Malkmus.
Gold Soundz was produced by Pavement.
Pavement released Gold Soundz on Sun Jun 19 1994.