Yik Yak

Lyrics

Current of voices intoning
Pseudo quasi-propositions
N-n-n-narco-p-p-p-psycho
Non-disconfirmable hypotheses
K-k-k-kick them
K-k-k-kick them
K-k-k-kick them all out of here
Oh there's this yik-yak, oh so much yik-yak
Yik-yak, yik-yak, yik-yak!
It's not an umbrella, it's not just good fun no
It's not just entertainment, it's not for everyone
We have no responsibility to it or those through whom it comes
It's not the art form of the present, it's not a way of knowledge
No things are still
No things are silence
Silence isn't nothing
Nor is stillness
Nothing is sacred
Nothing is all
This yik-yak, just yik-yak
Come on oh yik-yak, yik-yak, yik-yak!
Yik-yak
Yik-yak
Yik-yak
Oh, yik-yak
Oh, yik-yak
Yik-yak
Yik-yak
Yik-yak

Chronology

Interpretations

Mayo Thompson, 2005^[1]

I think singles are a really good thing, because you can get into a dialogue with things like Yik Yak, which was aimed at Patti Smith and Judas Priest. I mean he’s like, Ya’ll think that Rock and Roll is the art form of the present. Well, that’s nice.

The stuttering may be a reference to The Who's song "My Generation".