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| ... How come you say you will and then you won't You change your mind and then you say you don't The mystery is why I play the goat The mystery you call love Sometimes you're like an eagle strong like a rock Other times it seems you get unlocked And all your worst fears come tumbling out Into the street, into the snow I remember when you had a dream Everything was what it seemed to be But now nightmares replace everything And everything you see is wrong You said we'd meet but you're two hours late You said you thought someone had picked your gate So you hid and were afraid to wait Seeing shadows in the snow Seeing shadows in the snow Now your friend Godfrey is a perfect choice One minute down next time rejoice He seems to have found the perfect voice Paranoia key of E Let's say everything he says is true You love me but I cheat on you And in my bedroom is a female zoo Worse then Clinton in prime time I swear to you I'm not with Jill or Joyce Or Sid or Sherry or Darlene or worse I'm not kissing you while inside I curse Paranoia key of E Let's play a game the next time we meet, ah I'll be the hands and you be the feet And together we will keep the beat To paranoia key of E Now you know mania's in the key of B Psychosis in the key of C Let's hope that we're not meant to be In paranoia key of E Anorexia is in G flat And F is anything I've left out Dyslexia, kleptomania and vertigo Patricide A, matricide D the same schizos Paranoia key of E Let's have a coda in the key of K Something that only we can play Maybe we'll light up like a hundred K Paranoia out of key Paranoia key of E Paranoia key of E Anorexia, dyslexia Kleptomania, patricide A, matricide D, vertigo, schizos Paranoia key of E, paranoia Paranoia, paranoia, paranoia key of E Paranoia, paranoia, paranoia key of E

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| ... It was only the time of the newly born dead With wispy cobwebs in your head The polar moon looked out instead Goin' wild Liquor shifting through the brain The manic depressive goes insane Goin' wild, goin' wild Desperate anger hits the streets By the foul smelling river by the meat market Goin' wild, mystic child Goin' wild, mystic child In the winter with frozen toes Looking out the big windows To fly, goin' wild Situation X out of control My eyes half opened like a mole Who smiles, goin' wild Who smiles, goin' wild In the mystic morning where the river meets The hurdy-gurdy of the hip-hop beat 5 AM the viscous street Oh, wild, goin' wild Out the window like a flash Fallin' through a rooftop crash Blind, goin' wild Sick and misty like a pup by the curb He's throwin' up wild, like a child Goin' wild, like a child If he can't have all that relates To testify that he is great He'll cut someone with a broken plate Stand upon the subway grate And smile, goin' wild Goin' wild with a smile Holy morning, sun is up And someone here has lost his cups The dawn is tattered all cut up Goin' wild, like a mystic child Like a mystic child Sunday morning looking down from the rooftop Goin' wild with a smile Mystic child Top of the world he's got it made His rings are gold, his braids are jade Jumped to the street, he's got it made Goodbye, child Goodbye, child, mystic child Goin' wild like a mystic child Goodbye, goodbye Goin' wild, goin' wild Like a mystic child Holy morning, sun is up Going wild, like a mystic, like a mystic , like a mystic child Goin', goin', goin', goin' wild, like a mystic child Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh Jumped to the street Goodbye my mystic child Goodbye mystic child

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I know I shouldn't had someone else in our bed

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But I was so tired, I was so tired

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It just makes me, makes me mad Glad, when I'm gone you're glad That overwhelming tension dissipates Oh, tad, you think I'm a baby Nobody likes to here, Why don't you grow up at dawn I know I shouldn't had someone else in our bed But I was so tired, so tired Who would think you'd find a bobby pin It makes me mad, makes me mad Don't you know it just makes me mad (it just makes me mad) Dumb, you're dumb as my thumb In the wistful morning you throw a coffee cup at my head Scum, you said I'm scum What a very lovely and feminine thing to do Bark, why don't you just bark Sit, come, stay are the perfect words meant for you Ah, ass, you says I'm an ass You better call 911 just I'm gonna hold you tight I know I shouldn't had someone else in our bed But I was so tired, so tired You said you're out of town for the night And I believed in you, I believed you And I was so tired, it makes me so mad It makes me so mad It makes me so mad It just makes me mad It makes me mad It makes me mad It makes me mad It makes me mad It makes me mad, ah, dumb

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They call you ecstasy Nothing ever sticks to you Not Velcro, not Scotch Tape Not my arms dipped in glue Not if I wrap myself in nylon A piece of duct tape down my back Love pierced the arrow with the 12 And I can't get you back Ah, ecstasy Ecstasy Ah, ecstasy Across the streets an old Ford, they took off its wheels The engine is gone In its seat sits a box With a note that says, "Goodbye Charlie, thanks a lot" I see a child through a window with a bib And I think of us and what we almost did The Hudson rocketing with light The ships pass the Statue of Liberty at night They call it ecstasy, ah Ecstasy Ecstasy, ah Ecstasy Some men call me St. Ivory Some call me St. Maurice I'm smooth as alabaster With white veins running through my cheeks A big stud through my eyebrow A scar on my arm that says, "Domain" I put it over the tattoo That contained your name They called you ecstasy, ecstasy Ecstasy They call you ecstasy, ecstasy Ecstasy The moon passing through a cloud A body facing up is floating towards a crowd And I think of a time and what I couldn't do I couldn't hold you close, I couldn't, I couldn't become you They call you ecstasy, I can't hold you down I can't hold you up I feel like that car that I saw today, no radio No engine, no hood I'm going to the cafe, I hope they've got music And I hope that they can play But if we have to part I'll have a new scar right over my heart I'll call it ecstasy Oh, ecstasy, ecstasy Ecstasy Ecstasy, ecstasy Ecstasy

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Maybe I should go and live in Amsterdam In a side street near a big canal

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Spend my evenings in the van Gogh Museum

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What a dream van Gogh Museum Or maybe it's time to see Tangiers A different lifestyle, some different fears And maybe I should be in Edinburgh In a kilt in Edinburgh

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Doin' a modern dance

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Doin' a modern dance Or maybe I should get a farm in southern France Where the winds are wispy and the villagers dance And you and I we'd sleep beneath a moon Moon in June and sleep till noon And maybe you and I could fall in love Regain the spirit that we once had You'd let me hold you and touch the night

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That shines so bright, so bright with fright Doin' a modern dance Doin' a modern dance Shit, maybe I could go to Yucatan Where women are women, a man's a man Ah, no one confused, ever loses place With their place in the human race Maybe I'm not cut out for city life The smell of exhaust, the smell of strife And maybe you don't wanna be a wife

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It's not a life being a wife Doin' a modern dance Doin' a modern dance So maybe I should go to Tanganyika Where the rivers run, down mountains tall and steep Or go to India to study chants And lose romance to a mantra's dance I need a guru, I need some law Explain to me the things we saw And why it always comes to this It's all downhill after the first kiss Maybe I should move to Rotterdam Maybe move to Amsterdam I should move to Ireland, Italy, Spain

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Afghanistan where there is no rain Or maybe I should just learn a modern dance Where roles are shifting the modern dance You never touch you don't know who you're with

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This week, this month, this time of year

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This week, this month, this time of year Doin' a modern dance You don't know who you're with modern dance I should move to Pakistan, go to Afghanistan Dance, you don't know who you're with Dance, you don't know who you're with Modern dance And maybe you don't want to be a wife It's not a life being a wife Doin' a modern dance You never touch you don't know who you're with Dance, modern dance The roles are shifting dance You never touch you don't know who you're with Dance, modern dance Maybe you don't want to be a wife It's not a life being a wife

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Some couples live in harmony, some do not

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Some couples yell and scream, some do not

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It echoes in my head like a bullet made of lead Some people yell and scream and some do not Some people sacrifice their lives and some do not Some people wait for sleep to take them away While others read books endlessly, hoping problems will go away I know you're hoping everything works out Neither one of us is the type who shouts You sleep in the bedroom while I pace up and down the hall Our baby stares at both of us, wondering which one of us to call I guess it's true that not every match burns bright I guess it's true, not all that I say is right But what you said still bounces around in my head Who thought this could happen to us when we first went to bed I'm told in the end that none of this matters All couples have troubles and none of this matters But what you said still echoes in my head And I'm still in the hallway downstairs sleeping alone instead I know you don't care, but here's my last thought Not that it matters, but here's the last thing I thought Our little thing is lying here in tatters And you, my dear, don't have any manners

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Sad to leave this way, to leave it all in tatters Saddening to leave this way, to leave it all in tatters I suppose that we all could say that nothing of it matters Still it's sad to see everything in tatters

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Born on a farm in a transatlantic moonlight Split like a cord of wood my family broke up Sold like a piece of steer, a piece of meat, a cow

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A breathing piece of shit Picked for my age, for my strength and make up Called for I was tall, I was big, I could hold up A tree or a piece of steel I could do What my fat owner can't

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Ah, future farmers of America Future farmers of America

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Future farmers of America Ah, I'm always watching the way his wife looks me over I have a sex twice as big as her husband's If I wasn't so large, so strong, so pale I'd disappear under a bush Colorless men and ladies of the world unite Kill your master with one cut of your knife Kill them during sex, kill them during talk Kill them whenever you can Future farmers of America Future farmers of America Future farmers of America These stupid black owners are foreigners to affairs of the heart Look at me, I'll never own land that I work on Every one of us here shares a surname This father must die I was born on the dark cusp of twilight My father was dark, my mother was light Look at me, I'm strong I could crush him in my fist

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Well I don't call it family and I don't call it lust And as we all know marriage isn't a must And I suppose in the end, it's a matter of trust

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If I had to I'd call love time She says, what do you call love Can't you be more specific? What do you call love Is it more than the heart's hieroglyphic Well for me time has no meaning, no future, no past And when you're in love, you don't have to ask There's never enough time to hold love in your grasp Turning time around Turning time around That is what love is Turning time around Yes, that is what love is My time is your time when you're in love And time is what you never have enough of You can't see or hold it, it's exactly like love

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Turning time around Turning time around Turning time around Turning time around Turning time around Well I gotta have it I gotta-gotta-gotta have it Turning, turning time around Gotta have it, turning time around Turning, turning time around Turning time around

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There's a white prism with phony jism spread across its face

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And the soulful convicts forever interred lose the smile across their faces

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The smile that registered hopes or dreams has proven just a waste

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And I'm the indentured servant, forever in his place

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I'm the indentured servant, forever in his place I wish I built a cabinet of shiny bolts and wood Secret draws and hiding places sculpted out of wood Secret places, secret lies, in a desk lying alone A secret letter written to you, to be read when you're alone A secret letter written to you, to be read when you're alone It says, I'm your indentured servant, I can no longer pretend That I'm a lover or an equal, I'm not even a friend I'm not good enough to serve you, I'm not good enough to stay So it is that I beseech you, to please turn me away So it is that I beseech you, to please turn me away

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Turn me away Turn me away Turn me away I'm asking you to let me go, it hurts me when you're sad And I can not do better than this, which must surely make you mad I'd be better off in your cabinet, or in a prison made of cloth Crouched beneath your dress I come, shooting little spurts Crouched beneath your dress I come, shooting little spurts I'm your indentured servant, but even I have pride In what I make or say or do, although I've lots to hide I hide from freedom and I hide from you, 'cause you've found me out I belong in prison beneath your legs, in a cabinet that I've built Beneath a candle in a secret drawer, in a prison by a moat I'm your indentured servant and I'm asking you to leave Me outside this prison cell where only you can breathe I-I-I, I'm your indentured servant, but I'm asking you for this Please release me from this love, and do it with a kiss I'm your indentured servant, I'm the one you'll miss Do it with a kiss Do it with a kiss Do it with a kiss I'm the one you'll miss

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Paralyzed by hatred and a piss ugly soul If he murdered his father, he thought he'd become whole While listening at night to an old radio Where they danced to the rock minuet In the gay bars in the back of the bar He consummated hatred on a cold sawdust floor While the jukebox played backbeats, he sniffed coke off a jar While they danced to a rock minuet School was a waste, he was meant for the street But school was the only way, the army could be beat The two whores sucked his nipples 'til he came on their feet As they danced to the rock minuet He dreamt that his father was sunk to his knees His leather belt tied so tight that it was hard to breathe And the studs from his jacket were as cold as a breeze As he danced to a rock minuet He pictured the bedroom where he heard the first cry His mother on all fours, ah, with his father behind And her yell hurt so much, he had wished he'd gone blind And rocked to a rock minuet In the back of the warehouse were a couple of guys They had tied someone up and sewn up their eyes And he got so excited he came on his thighs When they danced to the rock minuet On Avenue B, someone cruised him one night He took him in an alley and then pulled a knife And thought of his father, as he cut his windpipe And finally danced to the rock minuet In the curse of the alley, the thrill of the street On the bitter cold docks where the outlaws all meet In euphoria drug in euphoria heat You could dance to the rock minuet In the thrill of the needle and anonymous sex You could dance to the rock minuet So when you dance hard, slow dancing When you dance hard, slow dancing When you dance hard, slow dancing When you dance to the rock minuet

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When I think of you, Baton Rouge I think of a mariachi band I think of sixteen and a crisp green football field I think of the girl I never had When I think of you Baton Rouge I think of a back seat in a car The windows are foggy and so are we

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So helpless Well I once had a car lost it in a divorce The judge was a woman of course She said give her the car and the house and your taste Or else I set the trial date So now when I think of you Baton Rouge And the deep southern belles, ah, with their touch I wonder where love ends and hate starts to blush In the fields in the swamps in the rush In the terra-cotta cobwebs of your mind, ah When did you start seeing me as a spider spinning web Of malicious intent and you as poor poor me At the fire at the joint, this disinterred and broken mount In the bedroom in the house where we were unmarried So helpless, so helpless So helpless So helpless, so helpless So helpless When was I the villain in your heart Putting the brake on your start You slapped my face and cried and screamed That's what marriage came to mean The bitterest ending of a dream You wanted children and I did not Was that what it was all about You might get a laugh when you hear me shout You might get a laugh when you hear me shout I wish I had So helpless, so helpless So helpless So helpless, so helpless So helpless Sometimes when I think of Baton Rouge I see us with two and a half strapping sons One and a half flushed daughters preparing to marry And two fat grandsons I can barely carry Daddy, uncle, family gathered there for grace A dog in a barbecue pit goes up in space The dream recedes in the morning with a bad aftertaste And I'm back in the big city worn from the race of the chase What a waste So thanks for the card the announcement of child And I must say you and Sam look great Your daughter's gleaming in that white wedding dress With pride Sad to say I could never bring that to you that wide smile So I try not to think of Baton Rouge Or of a, of a, of a mariachi band Or of sixteen and a crisp green football field And the girl, and the girl I never had, had, had, had So helpless, so helpless So helpless So helpless, so helpless So helpless

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| ... Good morning it's Possum Day Feel like a possum in every way Like a possum Possum whiskers, possum face Possum breath and a possum taste Ooh, like a possum Possum tales, possum eyes Possum bones, possum thighs Ooh, like a possum Possum shots, possum runs Possum sleeps to possum drums Calm as an angel Good morning it's Possum Day I feel like a possum in every way Like a possum Wake up with a possum smile Look at me! Look at this smile Like a possum Things are all right don't worry about this My mind's amiss I've lost the kiss My smile is leaden, my gait is rubber And I say as one possum to another Like a possum Calm as an angel The only thing I hope to never see Is another possum in this tree Playing possum Just like a possum I got a hole in my heart the size of a truck It won't be filled by a one night fuck Slurping and squeezing ain't it just my luck Got a hole in my heart the size of a truck The size of a truck The devil tried to fill me up but my down was high As the sky is up Aahh, ain't that just my luck Calm as an angel Smoking crack with a downtown flirt Shooting and coming 'til it hurts Calm, calm, calm as an angel They're mating like apes in the zoo One for me and one for you Wouldn't it just be lovely Another useless night in bed Ah, ah, by the Hudson River The rollerbladers giving head Used condoms float on the river edge's head Wouldn't it be lovely Wouldn't it be lovely I got a hole in my heart the size of a truck It won't be filled by one night fuck Like a possum Like a possum Ooh, calm as an angel You know me I like to dance a lot With different selves who cancel out one another I'm the only one left standing One likes muscles, oil, and dirt And the other likes the women with the butt that hurts Like a possum The devil tried to fill me up But my down was high as the sky is up Calm as an angel I got a hole in my heart the size of a truck And it won't be filled by a one night fuck Like a Possum You know me I like to drink a lot And carry on Don't know which self will show up Over the 5 AM sun, the moon is shining Over the docks shining Oo, calm as an angel The girls in the market know what I'm about They pinch their nipples and they lift their skirts With a pierced tongue licking below a stained tee shirt Look at this smile My mind's amiss Smoking crack with a downtown flirt Shooting and coming 'til it hurts Calm, calm Sitting on a curb I throw a rock At the passing meat market trucks It's just my luck I'm the only one left standing And you know me I like to drink a lot The only one left standing The girls in the market know what I'm about They pinch their nipples and they lift their skirts Licking below a stained tee shirt Calm as an angel Smoking crack with a downtown flirt Shooting and coming baby 'til it hurts Wouldn't it be Wouldn't it be Wouldn't it be love Wouldn't it be lovely Calm as an angel Got a hole in my heart the size of a truck It won't be filled by one night fuck Ain't it just my luck Got a hole in my heart the size of a truck Another useless night in bed Walk down to the Hudson River getting head Calm calm calm calm calm as an angel Don't know why baby I'm still here Strong and fearless in the outside air I'm the only one left standing I'm the only one, the only one The only one left standing I'm the only one I'm the only one left standing Calm as an angel I'm the only one I'm the only one The only one left standing Calm as an angel Shooting an coming 'til it hurts O, holy morning Calm as an angel

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Big sky holding down the sea

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But it can't hold us down anymore Big sky holding up the stars Big sky holding Venus and Mars Big sky catch you in a jar But it can't hold us down anymore

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Big sky, big enormous place Big wind blow all over the place Big storm wrecking havoc and waste But it can't hold us down anymore Ooh, big goals, big ambitious goals Big talk, talking till I fold Big wind talking through torrential love But it can't hold us down anymore

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Big sin, big sin, big original sin Paradise where I've never been Big snake break the skin But you can't hold us down anymore A big house holds a family A big room it holds you and me It's a big mess and baby makes three And you can't hold us down anymore Big news, they're out of their heads Big-big-big news, let's fuck them instead There's a big joke did they think we were monks But they can't hold us down anymore A big doll, big enormous eyes Big love holds you in a vise A big man who cut them down to size They can't hold us down anymore

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Big sky, big sky holding up the sun Big sky holding, holding up the moon Big sky holding down the sea But it can't hold us down anymore Oh, big doll, big enormous eyes Big love holds you in a vise A big man who cut them down to size, ah They can't hold us down anymore Oh-oh, big sky Big sky Big sky Ah, they can't hold us down anymore

Lou Reed : Ecstasy
2000

Paranoia Key Of E

Mystic Child

Mad

Ecstasy

Modern Dance

Tatters

Future Farmers Of America

Turning Time Around

White Prism

Rock Minuet

Baton Rouge

Like A Possum

Rouge

Big Sky

Lou Reed : Ecstasy 2000

Paranoia Key Of E

Mystic Child

Mad

Ecstasy

Modern Dance

Tatters

Future Farmers Of America

Turning Time Around

White Prism

Rock Minuet

Baton Rouge

Like A Possum

Rouge

Big Sky

Lou Reed : Ecstasy
2000