Androgynous Mind
For some reason or another I was making a painting of a man falling from a tall building rather reminiscent of shots from the film Vertigo in an A-Level art class. I had been listening to Experimental Jet-Set, Trash and no Star by Sonic Youth on my mini-disc player while painting.
I decided to name the painting after a song on the album and started skipping through to see which had the best mood and lyrics for my painting. I remember I played ‘Androgynous Mind’ and immediately thought it was a little close to home. Combined with the death scene “people might notice something was wrong with me.”
I ended up naming it after one of the other tracks on the album, I can’t remember which. But what were those offending lyrics that hit a little too close to home?
hey sad angel walks, and he talks like a girl
out trying to think why it stinks, he’s not a girl
now he’s kicked in the gut, they fucked him up, just enough
they got me down on my knees, I kiss his ring, God is love
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
hey hey are you gay? are you God?
my brain’s a bomb, to turn you on
everything is all right
god is gay, and you were right
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
hey hey it’s okay, hey hey it’s okay (x4)
hey hey it’s okay, hey it’s okay (x5)
hey hey it’s okay, hey hey it’s okay (x6)
aaaaaaaawwwooooooowwwaaaaaaaooo
god said it’s all right, for you to fight
to free yr mind
whose side are you on?
like a bomb, yr free tonight
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
androgynous mind, androgynous mind
hey hey it’s okay, hey hey it’s okay (x4)
hey hey it’s okay, hey it’s okay (x5)
hey hey- Androgynous Mind by Sonic Youth
