Words and music: lou reed & john cale It was a very cold clear fall night I had a terrible dream Billy name and brigid were playing under my stair case on the ...

I want to go home, I want to go home I want to go back to adelaide It' s time for a change, don't want to be late It's probably night in adelaide In a day or t...

And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go an...

She's back from Amsterdam And I think the journey did her well Her face has lost it's touch The tell tale signs of loneliness inside But I love her still And n...

Andalucia when can I see you When it is snowing out again Farmer John wants you Louder and softer closer and dearer Then again Needing you taking you keeping yo...

Sushi for shabu you keep calling me you keep calling me Angel of death I have thought I heard you singing angel of death I have held The flutter of your seduct...

The paranoid great movie queen Sits idly fully armed The pwder and mascara there A warning light for charm We see her every movie night The strong against the w...

Dark woman in the water drowning Sinking in a funny way Black footing full of faces floating Mimicking our final days The ocean will have us all The ocean will...

When I stand, my back to the sea A big white cloud, looking right down on me Sound of sun, missing my eyes Everything's clear, everything's bright Big white cl...

Everybody melting but the heat just won't affect ya Backlot casanovas and black russian defectors Are here to take your picture away I know you don't have space...

Everybody's praying for the rains to come And the snow is gonna fall, down on me Lost up in the desert with a gun in my hand And the locust gonna come to find m...

Consternation on the dance-floor I can't take it anymore My ugly girl-friend has these big eyes, she's running out the door Get her back, the regulars cry All t...

When abilene was young and gay And thunder storms filled up the day The cattle roamed outside the town Sleeping in the midday sun Sleeping in the midday sun Sl...

Traffic moving slowly monday morning Money talks, people hoping Cable hogue where've you been Cable hogue where've you been Something inside me tells me you wo...

Welcome to the café shabu permit me to introduce you to some of our regulars starting on my immediate left, ladies and gentlemen, here in café shabu, you'll not...

She said no, she meant maybe She said she wasn't that type of girl When she'd done wrong, she'd never admit it And I had empty pockets to prove it She was so m...

When the winter days are gone Never find any summer breezes Until you've gone through spring Another way out of here Another way out of here Another way Another...

The manager is waiting to be paid Along with priests and deacons of his court A quartermaster, quite a man, a mistress of the line Has found a last cent avenue ...

With mistletoe and candle green To halloween we go Ten murdered oranges bled on board ship Lends comedy to shame The cattle graze bold uprightly Seducing down t...

She was a princess, much lower than people thought A master of nothing a mistress of something she thought She could talk about things that never mattered ever ...

Cleo, cleo, won't you come around and play girl Cleo, cleo, won't you come around and stay girl You can find the lines to say, if you try Someone else has just...

Words: lou reed & john cale Coyote goes to the top of the hill Doin' the things the coyote's will Staring at the sky, at the moon You know he starts to howl C...

Damn life Damn life What's it worth? Damn life Getting on without This city It's just self-pity Damn life You're just not worth it You're just not worth the pai...

Woke up early this morning Something wrong inside my head Took a look around for breakfast First thing I see is you're not there So where were you, where were ...

Sooner or later she said she'd be my friend Honest and faithful till the very end Well enough of that I'm tired of hearing it anyway She turns and smiles says g...

Well, it's too damn early and your eyes are bleeding From the vicious bottle the night before And the last thing you need is a nicety-nice And small talk crawls...

Words: dylan thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light Though wise...

I've been chasing ghosts and I don't like it I wish someone would show me where to draw the line I'd lay down my sword if you would take it And tell everyone ba...

Oh emily, I'd love to be Down by the sea with you Having tea with you Walking hand in hand On the shifting sands Maybe we'll love again Maybe we'll love again ...

You killed your european son You spit on those under twenty-one But now your blue car's gone You better say so long Hey hey, bye bye bye You made your wallpaper...

If you wanna be the heart of midnight You've gotta be either cynical or dead All those you hold in estimation You can no longer count among your friends Your f...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale Faces and names, I wish they were the same Faces and names only cause trouble for me Faces and names If we all looked the...

Well they say that every dog has his day But puppy love was never really my way Hear your voice - am I asleep or awake? Since you're gone Love that's here toda...

Words and music: garland jeffreys Board boy, board boy, rolling down the road board boy, board boy, what have you been told Do you wear your jeans of blue? Oh...

Standing waiting for a man to show Wide eyed one eye fixed on the door This waiting's killing me, it's wearing me down Day in day out, my feet are burning holes...

Here she comes, you better watch your step She's going to break your heart in two, it's true it's not hard to realize Just look into her false colored eyes She ...

Fighter pilot you're losing the war again When will you ever learn Fighter pilot you're making a big mistake and setting a bad example Fighter pilot tell me ab...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale Train entering the city - I lost myself and never come back Took a trip around the world and never came back Black silhou...

It was seven o'clock in the morning Too late to handle the day At home it was only two thirty The skin on my wrists turning grey Stood up, wished us good luck ...

Holding on, with both eyes, to things that don't exist Peering through the cutting wrist, at grand old mother greedy Rolling out the cotton ship, upon the carpe...

You're having tea with Graham Greene In a colored costume of your choice And you'll be held in high esteem If you're seen in between Stiffly holding umbrellas C...

Me and my partner we work on the run The quick try to get quicker And the creepers get hung Now it's you that got wasted tonight on the jo One lost his liquor A...

The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife Did it quick and split Back home, fresh as a daisy to maisy, oh maisy And the twelve-bore it stood in the corner...

I suppose I'm glad I'm on this train And it's long Somewhere between dunkirk an paris Most people here are still asleep But I'm awake Looking out from here -- a...

I've heard there was a secret chord That david played and it pleased the lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fif...

If the sacheting of gentlemen Gives you grievance now and then What's needed are some memories of planing lakes Those planing lakes will surely calm you down N...

Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell It's down at the end of lonely street At heartbreak hotel You make me so lonely baby, I get so lonely...

Hedda gabler Had a very funny face Tired of waiting Tired of the human race Like her brother Sitting in the library Reading how dear adolph Was going to save a...

Hedda gabler Had a very funny face Tired of waiting Tired of the human race Like her brother Sitting in the library Reading how dear adolph Was going to save a...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale Andy it's me, haven't seen you in a while I wished I talked to you more when you were alive I thought you were self-assur...

Hooked up on a fishing line, Looking for the break of day I've never been here before anyway Its the line in my feet that's to blame Settled down in the mud Gi...

Now, if she ever comes now now If she ever comes now, now If she ever comes now Now, if she ever comes now now If she ever comes now, now If she ever comes now...

I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll te...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale Valerie solanis took the elevator got off at the 4th floor Valerie solanis took the elevator got off at the 4th floor She ...

Here it comes the count-down It's gone gone, baby Got my eyes wide open Ever since I was crippled on monday, Got my eyeballs on my knees, a baby-walking I rappe...

Never win and never lose There's nothing much to choose Between the right and wrong Nothing lost and nothing gained Still things aren't quite the same Between y...

I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are, in case you don't know I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset The light on your door to show that you're home When...

When my lady passes me by I lose the love I thought I had in mind Send no flowers or words of regret Cause I'm not the loving kind Day by day I was hoping you'...

I'm waiting for my man Twenty-six dollars in my hand Up to lexington, 125 Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive I'm waiting for my man Hey, white boy, what...

If you were still around I'd hold you I'd hold you I'd shake you by the knees Blow hard in both ears If you were still around You could write like a panther Wh...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale I think images are worth repeating Images repeated from a painting Images taken from a painting From a photo worth re-see...

We kill in the world We live in it We live in it Then you smiled crawling as your houses were burning for god Books crawl down from the shelves read themselves...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale It wasn't me who shamed you, it's not fair to say that You wanted to work I gave you a chance at that It wasn't me who hu...

All hail king harry But a whisper of your former self say i Your wives are all dead Sail away say i France can burn While your sons lie warm Come xmas in the t...

Lady godiva, hair dressed so demurely Pats the head of another curly-haired boy Just another toy Sick with silence she weeps sincerely Saying words that have al...

Looking for a friend, looking everywhere Walked along the boulevard, the boulevard of friends All those mild mannered friends I've got They're careless and they...

Words: dylan thomas Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound In the throat, burning and turning all night afloat On the silent sea we have heard the ...

Welcome home Macbeth It's been a long long time And everyone knows you're here It's easy to see they care Banquo's been and gone He's seen it all before He too...

Look at that old man with the broken shoes He could tell you stories he knows how to lose Look at that sweet thing packaged so tight She does things her own wa...

May I help you, sir? Yes, I'd like to buy a map, please What kind of map? As up-to-date as possible, I'm thinking of doing a bit of travelling and I need the...

Long distance in formation, give me memphis tennessee Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me She could not leave her number, but I know who place...

In the shadows of the night come the friends of fantasy dancing forward toward The dawn, wrapped in coats of vanity in the closets in the home hang the toasts O...

Momamma Scuba Scuba woman down me slow Scuba woman down me slow Love you Skin turn to slime Hold me slow and dub me down Take me with you, dub me down Love you...

I believe you Mr Wilson I believe the things you say And I'm always thinking of you When I hear your music play And you know it's true That Wales is not like C...

My maria She's a simple kind of girl Goes to mass Sees the blood of jesus flow Ohhh maria Ohhh maria Then her mother told her baby how her brother died Street...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale I really care a lot although I look like I do not Since I was shot there's nobody but you I know I look blase, party andy...

The sky's full of dirty, aching air, that's burning a greasy yellow and zooming Slowly in on everyone, [untie] these fighting sunsets that will not be fulfilled...

Sitting 'round, talking 'bout old china and how the ladies hair will go to grey, paying for a speedy revolution, hoping those fine lines will go away someone sc...

Words: dylan thomas The sky is torn across This ragged anniversary of two Who moved for three years in tune Down the long walks of their vows Now their love l...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale Please Come over to 81st street I'm in the apartment above the bar You know you can't miss it, it's across from the subwa...

Overture - a) a tourist - b) a contact - c) a prisoner Excuse me, excuse me! can you show me the way out of here? Of course this way just pass the headless ho...

Words and music: jonathan richman Well some people try to pick up girls And get called assholes This never happened to pablo picasso He could walk down your st...

God knows how long she was waiting on the mountain, staring at the river, watching all her dreams go by every single morning she sang of crystal fountains, coun...

She makes me so unsure of myself Standing there but never talking sense Just a visitor you see So much wanting to be seen She'd open up the door and vaguely car...

Welcome to the goldrush, ladies and gentlemen, where california begins and maybe ends California is the last stop on the great hitchhike west and now it's gett...

Won't you help me please, I'm growing old A million years ago Won't you help me sneeze, I've caught a cold Another way to go Just hold on tightly This shows o...

Words: leonard cohen Queen victoria, My father and all his tobacco loved you, I love you too in all your forms, The slim and lovely virgin floating among germa...

Words: sam shepherd I knew a guitar player once Who called the radio friendly He felt a kinship, not with the music so much as with the radio's voice Its synth...

Words: Sam Shepherd I knew a guitar player once Who called the radio friendly He felt a kinship, not with the music so much as with the radio's voice Its synth...

All along the riverbank nobody seems to know They heard nothing, saw even less of the hunger in their souls Safety first or safety last I wish I could have help...

Teenage mary said to uncle dave I sold my soul, must be saved Gonna take a walk down to union square You never know who you're gonna find there You gotta run, ...

They rush him into somewhere He's dancing in his chains And the traitor's melancholy Feeling out of place And he will have to dig For miles underground of soil ...

Life is short and love is very sweet Look at all the people running from their lives in the street What're they running from? What are they running from? Well, ...

She was so afraid Since her mother, white with time, Told her She was a failure She was so ashamed Of everything she said And everything she did For her mother...

Who's that in the big japanese car? Dealing sushi from a german bar Well no one knows but he won't get far I took my tomahawk for a satellite walk I took my to...

What do you think is going on here the old man said from his chair? d'you think this is anything new? now look here son this is just like it was back in the old...

The ship of fools is coming in Take me off I've got to eat Same old stories same old thing Letting out and pulling in Mister, there's a caravan parked out back...

Wasting time, we wait for answers, every time we throw the dice breaking down all delusions, wasting time Finding time, we take no chances treating time, and pu...

Duck and sally inside They're cooking for the down five Who's starin' at miss rayon Who's busy lickin' up her pig pen I'm searching for my mainline I said I cou...

Words and music: lou reed & john cale People said to lock the door and have an open house no more The said the factory must change and slowly slip away But if ...