"You doused my soul with gasoline / You flicked a match into my brain."

— Sonic Youth [Kim A Gordon, Thurston Joseph Moore, Lee M Ranaldo, Steven Shelley]


Date
2006
Metaphor
"You doused my soul with gasoline / You flicked a match into my brain."
Metaphor in Context
The firefighters hose me down
I don't care, I'll burn out anyhow
It's four-alarm girl, nothing to see
Hear the sirens come for me
You doused my soul with gasoline
You flicked a match into my brain


Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Incinerate
Provenance
Listening
Citation
Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped
Date of Entry
12/05/2017

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.