“Protect Me You” is the second song on Sonic Youth’s first full-length album, Confusion is Sex.
Kim Gordon wrote the song, inspired in part by Lydia Lunch’s air of “ravaged innocence”. She was quite reluctant to sing the song, being very self-conscious of her voice. In order to ease some of the pre...
[Verse]
Protect me from ravagement
I am ten years old
I don't know what I do
Protect me myself
I am fourteen
There's nothing to do
Protect me yourself
I am sixteen
Protect me from starving
I am eighteen
Protect me you
I don't know what you do
Protect me demons
That come at night
I don't know what they say
Their whispering
Sends the night air away
And makes me forget
I hope they come
Again and again
[Outro]
I hope they come
Again and again
I hope they come again
Again
Again
Again
Protect Me You was written by Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo & Kim Gordon.
Protect Me You was produced by Sonic Youth & John Erskine & Wharton Tiers.