Тексты песен «Lou Reed»

Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city alone Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city alone Their shrines and palaces are not like ours They do not tremble and rot Eaten with time Death has...

[Young Poe:] Lo! 't is a gala night A mystic throng bedecked Sit in a theater to see A play of hopes and fears While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres Mimes, mutter and mumble low Mere puppets...

I dreamed I was the president of these United States I dreamed I replaced ignorance, stupidity and hate I dreamed the perfect union and a perfect law, undenied And most of all I dreamed I forgot...

Down at the arcade the defender is there Down off of broadway he's there playing his games It's very dangerous Putting money down on robotron Oh, I'm the great defender And I really know just how to get along Down at...

Down at the arcade the defender is there down off of Broadway he's there playing his games It's very dangerous putting money down on Robotron Oh, I'm the Great Defender and I...

The man has a gun he knows how to use it Nine millimeter Browning let's see what he can do He'll point at your mouth say that he'll blow your brains out Don't you mess...

The heroine stood up on the deck the ship was out of control the bow was being ripped to shreds men were fighting down below The sea had pummeled the boat for so long that they...

They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because she was making it with sisters and brothers And everyone else, all of...

The last shot should've killed me Pour another drink Let's drink to the last shot And the blood on the dishes in the sink Blood inside the coffee cup Blood on the table top When you quit, you quit But you always wish...

I was sittin' home on the West End watchin' cable TV with a female friend we were watchin' the news, the world's in a mess the poor and the hungry, a world in distress Herpes, AIDS, the...

Some like wine and some like hops but what I really love is my scotch It's the power, the power of positive drinking Some people ruin their drinks with ice and then they, they ask you...

You can't have the flower without the root you can't have the fire without the soot Even a stripper needs her red tasseled suit and we were meant to be In every war the North needs the...

Once upon a midnight dreary as I pondered, weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore while I nodded, nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping as of some one gently rapping rapping at my...

True Nervous very nervous Madman Why will you say that I am mad The disease has sharpened my senses not destroyed not dulled them Madman The eye of a vulture a pale blue eye with a film...

Furious It made me furious A dull quick sound pounding Like a watch encased in cotton Tick tock I knew that sound well It increased my fury The beating of the old man's heart I...

[Spoken Track] [Rowena:] Far away far away Are not all lovely things far away As far at least lies that valley As the bedridden sun in the luminous east The paralyzed mountains, the sickly river Are not all things...

This is no time for Celebration this is no time for Shaking Heads This is no time for Backslapping this is no time for Marching Bands This is no time for Optimism this is no time...

Waking, he stared raptly at her face on his lips, her smell, her taste Black hair framing her perfect face with her wonderful mind and her incredible grace And so, he woke, he woke her with a start to offer her his...

This magic moment So different and so new Was like any other Until I met you And then it happened It took me by surprise I knew that you felt it too I could see it by the look in your eyes Sweeter than wine...

I met a new me at 8 am, the other one got lost this was not a trade in, although I wouldn't believe the cost I woke up crying as we said goodbye me an my old self, each day he vanished more and...