Transcendental Youth

Lyrics

It’s about the sort of, um… there’s just no good way of saying it that isn’t already saddled with too much cultural baggage to get across what I’m trying to say. It’s about the healing sacred power of your sexuality, but you hear that and y'all live in San Fransisco and you go, ‘Yeah but I don’t hang out with those kind of people.’ But the thing is, when you say that, when you go, 'Well healing sacred power of sexuality, that’s like tantric people right?’ No, I don’t mean that. I mean your everyday, whatever your deal is, like being able to be at home in your own body with another person present is a potentially extraordinarily powerful space. Especially if you have survived something horrible, right. That you can feel okay with somebody. Then this is like the greatest gift in the universe, like literally speaking. It’s the best thing. It’s a hard thing to talk about because, I don’t know if you know this, but Americans are really fucked up about their sexuality. But, big secret: we like to say that so is everybody else. That’s where the healing-power-of-sacred-sexuality people get it; they go, 'Well the ancient so-and-so’s…’ They were fucked up too. Guarantee you. They were all fucked up, except maybe teenagers. This song is for teenagers. (2012-12-14)