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One of the many tracks in A Thousand Leaves—probably SY’s most feminist album—to deal with gender issues.
Kim Gordon wrote it about male music journalists' reactions to female musicians. The mid-to-late-1990s saw a rise in popularity of female singer-songwriters marketed as being independent and st...
[Verse]
I want to shut you down
Love your sight and sound
I want to spin you round, 'till you're underground
I want to strip you down
'Till you feel the round
I want to feel your shine
I want to waste some time
I want to paint my face
Like a model out of place
Cause I'm supposed to dare
The machine will tear
I'll throw up sometime
Then you'll be mine
I want to swerve you down
While my mind is on the ground
I want to move your switch
Make you go squish
My desiring machine
Yeah it's made pretty clean
Now I'll turn the dial
And I'll put you in a pile
[Bridge]
Modern women cry
Modern women don't cry
Cry don't cry
You hurt me with your lie
Touch the fire in the rain and
See the children
Stop their play and
Look for shelter
In the garden of their
Make believe and I
I believe
Perfection is a
[Outro]
I can see what you're going through but
I can't melt my head to what you're
Whisked away to light the bomb a
Thousand leaves are left to stay and...
Female Mechanic Now on Duty was written by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley & Kim Gordon.
Female Mechanic Now on Duty was produced by Wharton Tiers & Sonic Youth.
Sonic Youth released Female Mechanic Now on Duty on Tue May 12 1998.