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Lou Reed : The Raven
2003

  1. Edgar Allan Poe
  2. Call On Me
  3. A Thousand Departed Friends
  4. Change
  5. Balloon
  6. Broadway Song
  7. Blind Rage
  8. Burning Embers
  9. Vanishing Act
  10. Guilty
  11. I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)
  12. Science Of The Mind
  13. Hop Frog
  14. Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
  15. Guardian Angel

Edgar Allan Poe

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These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door He'll tell you tales of horror, then he'll play with your mind If you haven't heard of him, you must be deaf or blind
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These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe
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Not exactly the boy next door He'll tell you about Usher, whose house burned in his mind His love for his dear sister, her death would drive him wild The murder of a stranger, the murder of a friend
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The callings from the pits of hell, that never seem to end These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door The diabolic image of the city and the sea The chaos and the carnage that reside deep within me Decapitations, poisonings, hellish not a bore You won't need 3D glasses to pass beyond this door Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door No Nosferatu, Vincent Price or naked women here A mind unfurled, a mind unbent is all we have here Truth, fried orangutans flutter to the stage Leave your expectations home, and listen to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe We give you the soliloquy, the raven at the door Flaming pits, the moving walls, no equilibrium No ballast, no bombast, the unvarnished truth we've got Mind swoons guilty, cooking ravings in a pot Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door Tell-tale heart, a rotting cask, a valley of unrest A conqueror worm devouring souls, keep the best for last Rings for Annie Lee, as Poe's buried alive Regretting his beloved's death in all her many guises These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the, not exactly the boy next door Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe Not exactly the boy next door Edgar Allan Poe

Call On Me

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Caught in the crossbow of ideas and journeys
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Sit here reliving the other self's mournings
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Caught in the crossbow of ideas and dawnings stand I, oh-oh-oh-oh Reliving the past of the maddening impulse Violent upheaval, the pure driven instinct The pure driven murder, the attraction of daring stand I
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Why didn't you call on me
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Why didn't you call on me
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Why didn't you call on me
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Why didn't you call?
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A wild being from birth My spirit spurns control
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Wondering the wide earth Searching for my soul
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Dimly peering I would surely find
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What could there be more purely bright In truth's day-star Oh-oh, why didn't you call on me Why didn't you call, call on me Why didn't you call on me Why didn't you call? Why didn't you call on me Why didn't you call on me Why didn't you call on me Why didn't you call?

A Thousand Departed Friends

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Change

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The only thing constantly changing is change
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And change is always for the worse
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The worm on the hook always eaten by a fish
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The fish by bird man or worse
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A spot on the lung, a spot on your heart
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An aneurism of the soul
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The only thing constantly changing is change
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And it comes equipped with a curse
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The only thing constantly changing is change
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And it's always for the worse
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The only thing constantly changing is change
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And it's always for the worse
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The only thing constantly changing is change The living only become dead Your hair falling out, your liver swelled up Your teeth rot your gums and your chin Your ass starts to sag, your balls shrivel up Your cock swallowed up in their sack The only thing constantly changing is change And it's always change on your back The only thing constantly changing is change And it's always for the worse The only thing constantly changing is change And it's always for the worse, baby The only thing constantly changing is change Ashes to ashes to dusk The deer and the rabbit, the musk of your hole Filled up with myriad dread, ooh The dread of the living, the dread of the living The frightening pulse of the night, ah The only thing constantly changing is change It's changes that will kill us with fright The only thing constantly changing is change And it's always for the worse The only thing constantly changing is change And it's always for the worse The only thing constantly changing is change The only thing constantly changing is change The only thing constantly changing is change And it comes equipped with my curse

Balloon

Performed by the McGarrigle Sisters
I'm a little balloon and I get puffed up Squeeze me and bend me it's never enough Put your lips around me, blow me up But if you prick me I will pop I'm a little balloon full and firm Here is my aft and here is my stern Here's my lips and here's my hose Put me down or I will burst If you prick me I will burst

Broadway Song

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Like to thank all you people for showing up tonight Sorry about the weather Let's have a big hand for my long time accompanist Manfred Gooseberry Hey Goose Take a bow, relax Be comfortable Have a cocktail on the Poo Poo Lounge And let us entertain you
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I'd like to sing you a Broadway song
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I hope that you'll all sing along
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A little dancing and some sentiment to put your mind at ease I'd like to play you something low and sexy Look at our dancers they're so young and pretty, hi Olga And when we start to groove you can hear the saxophones blow
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Ah, show business is just a wonderful thing All I want is to get down on my knees and sing for you
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And let the saxophones blow, blow baby blow I'd like to sing you a Broadway song I hope that you'll all sing along A little dancing and some sentiment to put your mind at ease I wanna bring a tear to your eye, oh Good old Poe don't he make you cry Ain't it great the way he writes about the mysteries of life Ah, show business is just a wonderful thing All I want is to get down on my knees and sing for you And let the saxophones blow, blow baby blow Ah, show business is just a wonderful thing All I want is to get down on my knees and sing for you And let the saxophones blow, blow baby blow baby blow baby blow Go Goose go

Blind Rage

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Who's that peeping through my door Sneaking up and down the hall
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I can't stand it anymore
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I can't stand it anymore Who's that peeping through my door Sneaking up and down the hall I can't stand it anymore I can't stand it anymore
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I'm in a blind rage
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Blind rage Who's that creeping in my room Blocking out the stars and moon I fear you will attack me soon Who goes there Who's that creeping in my room Blocking out the stars and moon I fear you will attack me soon Who goes there Blind rage Blind rage Blind rage Blind rage I'm in a blind rage Blind rage You're making me scared Blind rage Make me scared Blind rage Blind rage Blind rage Blind rage Blind rage Blind rage

Burning Embers

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Fly through the glass of a window pane Fall through the sky feeling the rain Walk on broken glass your tell-tale heart |
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Look through the bars of a dirty jail cell Soar to heaven dive to hell Listen to your tell-tale heart
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Setting fires in the ghost twilight We see you dress we bolt with fright
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You see an apparition disappear
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Jump to the table, jump up the stairs
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I stand on the rooftop, looking out through the air
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Walk on broken glass your tell-tale heart
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Lenore, am I dreaming
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How can death keep us apart, mmmm..
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Lenore, I see you burning
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And I'd walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart Heart, heart, heart, heart Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart Your tell-tale heart Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Vanishing Act

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It must be nice to disappear
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| It must be nice to disappear To have a vanishing act To always be moving forward And never looking back How nice it is to disappear Float into a mist With a young lady on your arm Looking for a kiss Looking for a kiss Float into a mist

Guilty

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| ... Guilty, guilty Guilty, I'm paralyzed with guilt It runs through me like a 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 Guilty, guilty Ooh guilty What did I say What did I say What did I do Did I ever do it to you Don't turn your back, ah I can't look you in the eye, ah Eye eye eye eye I guess I'm guilty as charged I guess I'm guilty as charged Guilty, huh, guilty ah, guilty ah, guilty Guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty Don't do that Don't do that Don't do what Oh you're such a child Real fool child Guilty What can I do I do it to you But I do it to me too Cut off my head Cut off my head Cut off my head, ah Hang me from the yard-arm Guilty, I'm paralyzed with guilt I've got bad thoughts I've got an evil clit Guilty Guilty, my mind won't leave me alone I've got a bad mind I've got a bad bone Guilty guilty guilty as charged Guilty Don't do that Don't do what Don't do that Oh you're such a reckless child You remember when you were a baby Do you remember when you were a baby Do you have a jury, yeah Do you have a verdict Guilty as charged Guilty guilty guilty as charged Do you have a verdict Do you have a verdict I'm guilty You're guilty Oh you're such a reckless child I should beat you I should hit you I'll put you in therapy, ah

I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)

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| ... Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes I have felt the full knowledge And force of their expression And yet been unable to possess it And have felt it leave me As so many other things have left The letter half-read The bottle half-drunk Finding Finding in the commonest objects of the universe A circle of analogies Of metaphors Ooh For that expression Which has been willfully Withheld from me The access to the inner soul denied I wanna know, ooh I wanna know I wanna know, oh I wanna know In consideration In consideration of the faculties and impulses Of the human soul Of the human soul In consideration Of our arrogance Of our arrogance Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason We have all overlooked the propensity We saw no need for it The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness Perverseness Through its promptings we act without Comprehensible object We act for the reason we should not We act for the reason we should not For certain minds this is absolutely irresistible, irresistible The conviction of the wrong Or impolicy of an action Is often the unconquerable force The unconquerable force It is a primitive impulse It is a primitive impulse Primitive impulse The overwhelming tendency The overwhelming tendency to do Wrong for the wrong's sake To do wrong for the wrong's sake We persist in acts Because we feel that we Should not persist in them Because we feel we, feel we Should not persist, persist in them, ah Ooh So I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna, I wanna know I wanna, I Ooh, we persist in action We persist in action Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong Ooh Wrong, wrong Oh we persist in action Ah yeah yeah When you know that it's wrong

Science Of The Mind

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In the science of the mind
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There is no forgiving
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Paralyzed, I lay here sleeping
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Quiet as a little child Heart starts beating, blood rushing pounding Moving quiet as a little lamb In the science of the mind Limbs are bound devoid of movement The injuries we do in kind Are visited upon us often In the science of the mind Trying hard to move a shadow Don't bury me I'm still alive The science of the mind unyielding
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The science of the mind unyielding
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The science of the mind unyielding

Hop Frog

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Well they call me a juicy hop-frog You can see me in any wood bog Don't you know that they call me the hop-frog
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Hopping frog I'm a hop-frog A hop-frog They call me the hop-frog Hop, hop-frog
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They call me the hop-frog See me in any wood bog Don't you know that call me a hop-frog
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Hop-frog
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They call me the hop-frog See me in a wood bog They're calling me a hop-frog
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Hop-frog You can see me in a ballroom You can see me in a bedroom You can see me in the woods Hop, hop-frog
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They call me the hop-frog They call you the hop-frog Well they call you the hop-frog
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Hop, hop-frog
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Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)

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Sometimes I wonder who am I
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The world seeming to pass me by
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A younger man now getting old
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I have to wonder what the rest of life will hold I hold a mirror to my face There are some lines that I could trace To memories of loving you The passion that breaks reason in two I have to think and stop me now If reminisces make you frown One thinks of what one hoped to be And then faces reality Sometimes I wonder who am I Who made the trees, who made the sky Who made the storms, who made heartbreak I wonder how much life I can take I know I like to dream a lot And think of other worlds that are not I hate that I need air to breathe I'd like to leave this body and be free I'd like to float like a mystic child I'd like to kiss an angel on the brow I'd love to solve the mysteries of life By cutting someone's throat or removing their heart You'd like to see it beat You'd like to hold your eyes And though you know I'm dead You'd like to hold my thighs If it's wrong to think on this To hold the dead past in your fist Why were we given memories Let us lose our minds and be set free Some... sometimes I, I wonder who am I The world seeming to pass me by A younger man now getting old I have to wonder what the rest of life will hold I wonder I wonder Ooh... who started all this Was God in love and gave a kiss To someone who later betrayed And Godless love sent us away To someone who later betrayed And Godless love sent us away

Guardian Angel

Tuning: EADGBD, really?
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I have a guardian angel, keep him in my head
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When I'm afraid and alone, I call him to my bed
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I have a guardian angel who keeps bad things from me
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The only way to ruin it would be for me not to trust me
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The only way to ruin it would be for me not to trust me |
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I have a guardian angel, who's often saved my life
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Through malevolent storms and crystal drums, the angel on my right
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Has lifted me up and set me down, always showing me what's right
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And if my instinct proved me wrong, the angel set it right
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And if my instinct proved me wrong, the angel set it right
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Have a guardian angel, I keep him in my head
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And when I'm having nightmares, he shows me dreams instead
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I have a ring, I have a dress, I have an empty shell
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By the books below tea cups I've kept a kind of hell
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By the books below tea cups I've kept a kind of hell |
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Panic and anxiety, so often in my head
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But I had a guardian angel who took care of me instead
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The champagne cork, the night-light owl, a raven and a duck
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The seed of pining parents, and your despairing love
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The seed of pining parents, and your despairing love |
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Love and luck both have charmed lives, can change all things about
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I had a guardian angel, that's what this is all about
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I have a guardian angel, I keep him in my head
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When I'm alone and become afraid, he saved my life instead
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When I'm alone and become afraid, he saved my life instead |
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