Released on October 18, 1988

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[Intro: Kim Gordon]

You're it

No, you're it

Hey, you're really it

You're it, you're it

No, I mean it, you're it

Say it, don't spray it

Spirit desire (Face me), spirit desire (Don't displace me)

Spirit desire, we will fall

Miss me, don't dismiss me

Spirit desire

Spirit desire, spirit desire

Spirit desire, we will fall

Spirit desire

We will fall

Spirit desire, spirit desire

Spirit desire, we will fall

Spirit desire

We will fall


[Instrumental Break]


[Verse 1: Thurston Moore]

Well, everybody's talkin' 'bout the stormy weather

And what's a man to do but work out whether it's true?

Looking for a man with a focus and a temper

Who can open up a map and see between one and two


[Chorus]

Time to get it

Before you let it get to you

Here he comes now

Stick to your guns and let him through


[Verse 2]

Well, everybody's comin' from their winter vacation

Takin' in the sun in an exaltation to you

You come runnin' in on platform shoes

With Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue


[Verse 3]

Ah, here it comes

I know it's someone I knew

Teenage riot in a public station

Gonna fight and tear it up in a hypernation for you


[Chorus]

Now I see it

I think I'll leave it out of the way

Now I come near you

And it's not clear why you make the way


[Verse 4]

Lookin' for a ride to your secret location

Where the kids are settin' up a free-speed nation for you

Got a foghorn and a drum and a hammer that's rockin'

And a cord and a pedal and a lock, that'll do me for now


[Verse 5]

It better work out

I hope it works out my way

'Cause it's gettin' kind of quiet in my city head

It takes a teenage riot to get me out of bed right now


[Chorus]

You better look it

We're gonna shake it up to him

He acts the hero

We paint a zero on his hand


[Instrumental Bridge]


[Verse 6]

We know it's down

We know it's bound too loose

Everybody's sound is round it

Everybody wants to be proud to choose

So who's to take the blame for the stormy weather?

You're never gonna stop all the teenage leather and cooze


[Chorus]

It's time to go 'round

A one-man showdown, teach us how to fail

We're off the streets now

And back on the road, on the riot trail