Lou Reed

[fox69]

"With You"

"With You"


With you, life moves so fast
with you, everything's a mess
Slow down

Don't you think you could be less capricious
I'm not you, I don't have no death wish
Slow down
slow down

With you, there is no denying
it's you, not my lack of trying
With you, everybody's lying
it's you, it's not me who's crying
Crying, crying
crying, crying

With you, stay and hold tightly from the streets
with you, every friend's a possible beat
Slow down
slow down

With you, it's a foregone conclusion
with you, envy, it's all a delusion
With you, I can have no illusions
it's you, who has the contusions
Crying, crying
crying, crying

With you, everyone's a sucker
with you, it's fuckee or fucker
Slow down
slow down

With you, life is just a scramble
with you, every day is a gamble
With you, I can't forget life barely
with you, playing the Virgin Mary
And your crying, crying
crying, crying
Crying, crying

 

[fox69]

"Women"

"Women"


I love women, I think they're great
they're a solace to the world in a terrible state
They're a blessing to the eyes, a balm to soul
what a nightmare to have no women in the world

I love women
I love women
I love women
we all love women

I used to look at women in the magazines
I know that it was sexist, but I was in my teens
I was very bitter, all my sex was on the sly
I couldn't keep my hands off women, and I won't till I die

I love women
ah, I love women
we love women
we all love women

A woman's love can lift you up, and women can inspire
I feel like buying flowers and hiring a celestial choir
A choir of castratis to serenade my love
they'd sing a little Bach for us and then we'd make love

I love women
I love women
We all love women
we love women

 

[fox69]

"Xmas In February"

"Xmas In February"


Sam was lyin' in the jungle
agent orange spread against the sky like marmalade
Hendrix played on some foreign jukebox
they were praying to be saved
Those gooks were fierce and fearless
that's the price you pay when you invade
Xmas in February

Sam lost his arm in some border town
His fingers are mixed with someone's crop
If he didn't have that opium to smoke
The pain would never ever stop
Half his friends are stuffed into black body bags
With their names printed at the top
Xmas in February

Sammy was a short order cook
In a short order black and blue collar town
Everybody worked the steel mill
But the steel mill got closed down
He thought if he joined the Army
He'd have a future that was sound
Like no Xmas in February

Sam's staring at the Vietnam Wall
It's been a while now that he's home
His wife and kid have left, he's unemployed
He's a reminder of the war that wasn't won
He's that guy on the street with the sign that reads
"Please help send this Vet home"
But he is home, and there's no Xmas in February
No matter how much he saves

 

[fox69]

"You Wear It So Well"

"You Wear It So Well"


All of those things
yeah, that you got to give

Yeah, you wear it so well
hey, you wear it so well

All of those stories
honey, that I know you could tell

Yeah, you wear it so well
and your face hides it so we can't tell
That you knew we would wear it so well
you wear it so well

Yeah darling, you wear it so well
(you wear it so well)
Yeah baby, you wear it so well
(you wear it so well)
Yeah now baby, you wear it so well
(you wear it so well)
Hey now darling now, yeah, you wear it so well
(you wear it so well)

All of those things
that make poets sing

You wear it so well
yeah, you hide it so well

And all of those pain
that you used to tell

You hide it so well
can't tell from your face that you knew it so well
Hey, now that you have such a story to tell
yeah, you got style and grace and you wear it so well
You wear it so well
and you got, you got such a story to tell
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wear it so well
grace and style equals you so well
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wear it so well, well, yeah, so well
yeah, you wear it, wear it, wear it now, wear it now, baby
Yeah, now you wear it so well
and you got such a story to tell

(Ooohhh, ooohhh, ooohhh)
(ooohhh, you wear it so well)
(You wear it so well)
(you wear it so well)