Lou Reed

[fox69]

"Gassed And Stoked (Loss)"

"Gassed And Stoked (Loss)"


Well, you covered your tracks and now I can't see you
You had your ashes scattered at sea
There's no grave to visit, no tombstone to look at
You were in the NY Times obituary

There's no record, no tape, no book, no movie
Some photographs and some memories
Sometime I dial your phone number by mistake
And this is what I hear

"This is no longer a working number baby
Please redial your call
This is no longer a working number
Your party doesn't live here anymore.

This is no longer a working number
If you still require help
Stay on the line and an operator
Will try to bail you out."

I knew I should have seen you that Thursday
I knew I shouldn't have left
But you sounded so good, your spirits so up
I thought I'd see you next week

I say over and over if I had half a brain
If I had half a brain in my head
I wouldn't sit here dialing a wrong number
And listening to what some recording said

"This is no longer a working number baby
Please redial your call
This is no longer a working number
Your party doesn't live here anymore.

This is no longer a working number
But if you still require help
Stay on the line and an operator
Will try to bail you out."

I knew I should have written, written things down
I always say I'll never forget
Who can forget a one-eye pilot
Who's a concert pianist

A painter, a poet, songwriter supreme
My friends are blending in my head
They're melting into one great spirit
And that spirit isn't dead

Now I may not remember everything that you said
But I remember all the things you've done
And not a day goes by, not an hour
When I don't try to be like you

You were gassed, stoked and rarin' to go
And you were that way all the time
So I guess you know why I'm laughing at myselves
Every time I dial the wrong line

This is no longer a working number baby
This is no longer a working number

Gassed, stoked and ready to go
Gassed, stoked and ready to go
Gassed, stoked and ready to go
Gassed, stoked and ready to go

 

[fox69]

"Gimmie Some Good Times"

"Gimmie Some Good Times"


Hey, if that ain't the rock'n'roll animal himself, what you doing bro.
(Standing on the corner)
Well, I can see that, what you got in your hand
(Suitcase in my hand)
No, shit, what's this
(Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest)
Fucking faggot Johnson
(Jack, sweet Jane, I'm in a rock'n'roll band)
Well, I can see that

Some people say that you can't - (no no no)
No matter how good you are
And some people say, they can't move - (no no no)
No matter where they are

Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some good times
Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some pain
No matter how ugly you are
You know to me it all looks the same

Rain from the morning in the blue clouds
Now just shining up with dew
Riding through the city in their big cars
And me, I ain't got nothing to do

Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some good times
Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some pain
Don't you know things always look ugly
To me they always look the same

Oh, gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some good times
Oh, Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie some pain
Don't you know that most things look ugly
To me they always look the same

Oh, don't you know, hey, don't you know
To me they always look the same
Oh, don't you know, hey, don't you know
To me they always look the same
Oh, don't you know, hey, don't you know
To me they always look the same
Oh, don't you know, hey, don't you know
To me they always look the same

 

[fox69]

"Going Down"

"Going Down"


When you're in a dream
and you think you got your problems all nailed down
Pieces of the scheme
seem to rattle up and then to rattle down

And when you start to fall
and those footsteps they start to fade

Well then you know you're going down
yeah, you're falling all around
And you know you're going down
for the last time

When you're in the air
and you're thinking you'll drift off into the west
Your friends polite, advise
hey look you're pushing too hard
and perhaps you need a rest

And when you start to fall
and all those footsteps they start to fade

Then you know you're going down
yeah, you're crashing upside down
And you know you're going down
for the last -

- Time's not what it seems
it just seems longer, when you're lonely in this world
Everything it seems
would be brighter if your nights were spent with some girl

Yeah, you're falling all around
yeah, you're crashing upside down
Oh, oh, and you know you're going down
for the last time

 

[fox69]

"Good Evening Mr. Waldheim"

"Good Evening Mr. Waldheim"


Good evening Mr.Waldheim
And Pontiff how are you?
You have so much in common
In the things you do

And here comes Jesse Jackson
He talks of Common Ground
Does that Common Ground include me
Or is it just a sound?

A sound that shakes
Oh Jesse, you must watch the sounds you make
A sound that quakes
There are fears that still reverberate

Jesse you say Common Ground
Does that include the PLO?
What about people right here right now
Who fought for you not so long ago?

The words that flow so freely
falling dancing from your lips
I hope that you don't cheapen them
with a racist slip

Oh Common Ground
Is Common Ground a word or just a sound?
Common Ground
Remember those civil rights workers buried in the ground

If I ran for President
And once was a member of the Klan
Wouldn't you call me on it
The way I call you on Farrakhan

And Pontiff, pretty Pontiff
Can anyone shake your hand?
Or is it just that you like uniforms
And someone kissing your hand

Or is it true
The Common Ground for me includes you too?
Oh, oh, is it true
The Common Ground for me includes you too?

Good evening Mr.Waldheim
Pontiff how are you?
As you both stroll through the woods at night
I'm thinking thoughts of you

And Jesse you're inside my thoughts
As the rhythmic words subside
My Common Ground invites you in
Or do you prefer to wait outside

Or is it true
The Common Ground for me is without you
Or is it true
The Common Ground for me is without you
Oh is it true
There's no Ground Common enough for me and you

 

[fox69]

"Good Taste"

"Good Taste"


You're makin' a fool out of yourself
By following me around
Like a Japanese woman who stands ten steps in the shadow of her man
You’re following me around
You're following me around

You're makin' a joke of yourself
Your friends are talking behind your back
You're makin' a joke of yourself
Your friends are talking behind your back

What you gonna do
What you gonna do

Makin' a fool of yourself over me
Makin' a fool of yourself, can't you see
Makin' a fool of yourself over me
Over me, over me, over me
Proves that you have good taste

Makin' a fool of yourself
By slipping around
Shooting up (?)
Under the ground

But it just gets to prove
That you've got good taste
You've got good taste

 

[fox69]

"Goodby Mass (In A Chapel Bodily Termination)"

"Goodby Mass (In A Chapel Bodily Termination)"


Sitting on a hard chair try to sit straight
Sitting on a hard chair this moment won't wait
Listening to the speakers, they're talking about you
Look at all the people, all the people you knew

Sitting with my back straight it becomes hard to hear
Some people are crying, it becomes hard to hear
I don't think you'd have liked it, you would have made a joke
You would have made it easier, you'd say "tomorrow I'm smoke"

Sitting on a hard chair how far we have come
Trying hard to listen to your friends who have come
Some of them are famous and some are just like me
Trying hard to listen trying hard to see

Sitting in a hard chair it's over time to stand
Some people are crying, I turn to grab your hand
It's your daughter saying thank you
You, you would have made a joke
"Isn't this something," you'd say, "tomorrow I'm smoke"

Sitting in a hard chair it's over time to stand
Some people are crying, I turn to grab your hand
It's your daughter saying thank you
You, you would have made a joke
"Isn't this something," you'd say, "tomorrow I'm smoke"

 

[fox69]

"Goodnight Ladies"

"Goodnight Ladies"


Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye, let me tell you, now

Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye

Now, all night long
you've been drinking your tequilla
But now you've sucked
your lemon peel dry, so why not get high, high, high and
Goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight

Goodnight ladies
ah, ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye

Goodnight sweet ladies
ah, ladies goodnight
It's time to say
goodbye, bye-bye

Ah, we've been together
for the longest time
But now it's time to get high
come on, let's get high, high, high
And goodnight ladies
ladies goodnight

Oh, I'm still missing my other half
oh, it must be something I did in the past
Don't it just make you wanna laugh
it's a lonely Saturday night

Oh, nobody calls me on the telephone
I put another record on my stereo
But I'm still singing a song of you
it's a lonely Saturday night

Now, if I was an actor
or a dancer who is glamorous
then, you know, amorous life would soon be mine
But now the tinsel light of star break
is all that's left to applaud my heart break
and eleven o'clock I watch the network news

Oh, woh, woh, something tells me that you're really gone
you said we could be friends
but that's not what's not what I want
Ah, anyway, my TV-dinner's almost done
it's a lonely Saturday night
I mean to tell you, it's a lonely Saturday night
One more word, it's a lonely Saturday night

 

[fox69]

"Growing Up In Public"

"Growing Up In Public"


Some people are into the power of power
The absolute corrupting power, that makes great men insane
While some people find their refreshment in action
The manipulation, encroachment and destruction of their inferiors

Growing up in public, growing up in public
Growing up in public, growing up in public with your pants down

Some people are into sadistic pleasures
They whet their desires and drool in your ears
They're quasi-effeminate characters in love with oral gratification
They edify your integrities, so they can play on your fears

They're gonna do you in public, 'cause you're growing up in public
They're gonna do it to you in public,
'Cause you're growing up in public with your pants down

Some people think being a man is unmanly
Some people think that the whole concept's a joke
But some people think being a man is the whole point
And then some people wish they'd never awoke

Up from a dream of nightmarish proportions
Down to a size neither regal nor calm
A Prince Hamlet caught the middle between reason and instinct
Caught in the middle with your pants down again

Caught in the middle, I'm really caught in the middle
I'm caught in the middle, caught in the middle deciding about you

 

[fox69]

"Guardian Angel"

"Guardian Angel"


I have a guardian angel
keep him in my head
When I'm afraid and alone
I call him to my bed
I have a guardian angel
who keeps bad things from me
The only way to ruin it would be for me
not to trust me
The only way to ruin it would be for me
not to trust me
I have a guardian angel
who's often saved my life
Through malevolent storms and crystal drums
the angel on my right
Has lifted me up and set me down
always showing me what's right
And if my instinct proved me wrong
the angel set it right
And if my instinct proved me wrong
the angel set it right
Have a guardian angel
I keep him in my head
And when I'm having nightmares
he shows me dreams instead
I have a ring, I have a dress
I have an empty shell
By the books below tea cups
I've kept a kind of hell

By the books below tea cups
I've kept a kind of hell
Panic and anxiety
so often in my head
But I had a guardian angel
who took care of me instead
The champagne cork the nightlight owl
a raven and a duck
The seed of pining parents
and your despairing love
The seed of pining parents
and your despairing love
Love and luck both have charmed lives
can change all things about
I had a guardian angel
that's what this is all about
I have a guardian angel
I keep him in my head
When I'm alone and become afraid
he saved my life instead
When I'm alone and become afraid
he saved my life instead
Guardian angel
guardian angel
Guardian angel
guardian angel
Guardian angel

 

[fox69]

"Guilty"

"Guilty"


[Shadow 1:]
Guilty

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty

[Shadow 1:]
I'm paralyzed with guilt
It runs through me like rain through silk
Guilty
My mind won't leave me alone
My teeth are rotted
My lips start to foam
Cause I'm so guilty

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty
Guilty

[Shadow 1:]
Oh guilty
What did I say
What did I do
Did I ever do it to you
Don't turn your back
I can't look you in the eye eye eye eye

[Shadow 2:]
Eye eye eye

[Shadow 1:]
I guess I am guilty as charged

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty, guilty, guilty
Guilty, guilty, guilty
Guilty, guilty, guilty

[Shadow 1:]
Don't do that

[Shadow 2:]
Don't do what

[Shadow 1:]
Don't do that
Oh you're such a child
Guilty
What can I do
I do it to you
But I do it to me too
Cut off my head
Hang me from the yardarm
Guilty
I'm paralyzed with guilt
I've got bad thoughts
I've got an evil clit

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty

[Shadow 1:]
My mind won't leave me alone
I've got a bad mind
I've got a bad bone

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty
Guilty as charged
Guilty

[Shadow 1:]
Don't do that

[Shadow 2:]
Don't do what

[Shadow 1:]
Don't do that
Oh you're such a reckless child
Do you remember when you were a baby
Do you have a jury

[Shadow 2:]
Yeah

[Shadow 1:]
Do you have a verdict

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty as charged
Guilty
Guilty
Guilty as charged

[Shadow 1:]
Do you have a verdict
Do you have a verdict
I'm guilty

[Shadow 2:]
You're guilty

[Shadow 1:]
Oh you're such a reckless child
I should beat you
I should hit you
I will put you in therapy

[Shadow 2:]
Guilty
Guilty
Guilty
Guilty

[Shadow 1:]
Hahahaha..