Lisa says that it's allright When she needs to be alone at night Lisa says that she has a fun And she'll do it with just about anyone Lisa says, Lisa says, Lisa...

You know it's hard for me I cannot use the phone In the shape of publicity No relationship is born I feel like a Hercules who's recently been shorn But I have a...

Love is here, here to stay, love is here, here to stay It gets proven every day, love is here, here to stay They both love Chinese food, he hates to dress He lo...

When you pass through the fire you pass through humble You pass through a maze of self doubt When you pass through humble the lights can blind you Some people n...

Magician Magician take me upon your wings and gently roll the clouds away I'm sorry so sorry I have no incantations only words to help sweep me away I want so...

Magician Magician take me upon your wings andgently roll the clouds away I'm sorry I have no incantations only words to help sweep me away I want some magic to ...

I can't seem to make up my mind I can't tell the colors that will fit this room I can't tell a thing about you Make up my mind I can't seem to make up my mind A...

Mama's got a lover a painter I am told she's getting out of real estate for the art scene down in old Soho Art scene down in old Soho Mama's got a lover he own...

Waltzing Matilda whipped out her wallet Sexy boys smiled in dismay She took out four twenties, 'cause she liked brown figures Everybody screamed for a day Oh, b...

Men of good fortune, often cause empires to fall While men of poor beginnings, often can't do anything at all The rich son waits for his father to die The poor ...

Read in the paper about a man killed with a sword And that made my think of my friend George People said the man was five foot six Sounds like George with his k...

The image of the poet's in the breeze Canadian geese are flying above the trees A mist is hanging gently on the lake My house is very beautiful at night My frie...

When I was a young boy in Brooklyn Going to public school During recess in the concrete playground They lined us up by twos In alphabetical order, Reagan, Reed ...

The first bite of the apple made Eve smart The second bite taught her how to break men's hearts The third bite taught her how to strut her stuff But she never g...

The stock is empty in our eyeball store All we got left a few cataracts and sores The faggot mimic machine never had ideas Mission impossible they self destruct...

I don't like guilt be it stoned or stupid Drunk and disorderly I ain't no cupid Two years ago today I was arrested on Christmas Eve I don't want pain, I want to...

I was sleeping, gently napping when I heard the phone Who is on the other end talking, am I even home ? Did you see what she did to him, did you hear what they ...

It must be nice to be steady, it must be nice to be firm It must be nice never to move off the mark It must be nice to be dependable and never let anyone down I...

I know you're disappointed in the way I handled things You're thinking I misread the times and acted cowardly And since what I do affects us both and you feel t...

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 (* accented on "e") party Andy's what the papers s...

Hey, if you're moving too fast don't you want this thing last But if you start moving slow and - hey, pretty mama, you just will have to go, because - It's nob...

Somebody's got to help me this girl's drivin' me insane Cause some they likes it hot, and some they likes it cold and some they just don't like it at, like it a...

The stock is empty in our eyeball store All we got left, a few cataracts and sores The faggot mimic machine never had an ides Mission impossible, they self dest...

It can only lead to trouble if you break my heart If you accidentally crush it on the ides of March I'd prefer you were straight forward You don't have to go th...

The stock is empty in our eyeball store All we got left a few cataracts and sores The faggot mimic machine never had ideas Mission impossible they self destruct...

1969, Live version Here comes the ocean and the waves Down by the shore Here comes the ocean and the waves Dawn by the sea birthes a hollow hair Part of a figur...

All your two-bit friends they're shootin' you up with pills They said that it was good for you, that it would cure your ills I don't care just where it's at I'm...

[Old Poe:] As I look back on my life If I could have the glorious moment The wondrous opportunity to comprehend The chance to see my younger self One time To c...

(feat Rob Wasserman) (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer) It's quarter to three, no one in the place except you and me So set 'em up Bro I got a little story I think y...

You're the kind of girl everybody warned me about You're the kind of person, that everybody's just staring at But now you are a topless dancer Working out of a ...

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 subway And the tacky store with the mylar sc...

Sometimes I feel so happy, Sometimes I feel so sad Sometimes I feel so happy, But mostly you just make me mad Baby, you just make me mad Linger on, your pale bl...

by Lou Reed Just a perfect day Drink sangria in the park And then later, when it gets dark, we'll go home Just a perfect day Feed animals in the zoo Then later ...

Christopher Columbus discovered America Found he had a cornucopia Gave love to the indians, they gave it back A pow woo in the teepee is where it's at I want t...

I was visited by the power and the glory I was visited by a majestic hymn Great bolts of lightning lighting up the sky Electricity flowing through my veins I w...

I was visited by The Power and The Glory I was visited by a majestic hymn Great bolts of lightning lightning up the sky Electricity flowing through my veins I ...

Lovely day, the sunshine A light of love, love divine As time strode away A test of love, I bring to you my love Like a bird who builds your unborn a home Full...

Looking for another place Somewhere else to be Looking for another chance To ride into the sun Ride into the sun Ride into the sun Ride into the sun Ride into t...

Sit yourself down, bang out a tune on the grand piano Sit yourself down, lay languidly down upon that sofa Oooh isn't it nice, when your heart is made out of ic...

She's out of her mind, like the wind in the storm Like the ocean in the dawn as it disappears, with the riptide She's out of her mind, she's pulled away by the ...

Jenny said, when she was just five years old you know there's nothin' happening at all Every time she put on the radio there was nothin' goin' down at all not a...

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 t...

Jenny said, when she was just five years old you know there's nothin' happening at all Every time she put on the radio there was nothin' goin' down at all not a...

Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Columbus to New York Betwixt between the East and west he calls on her wearing a ...

Sitting in our rooftop garden, looking down below Sitting in our rooftop garden, waiting for the sun Isn't it lovely watching a plane go by What a lovely couple...

Staring at my picture book She looks like mary, queen of scots She seemed very regal to me Just goes to show how wrong you can be I?m gonna stop wastin? my tim...

Sally dances on the floor she says that she can't do it anymore She walks down St Marks Place and eats natural food at my place Now Sally can't dance no more s...

Satellite's gone up to the skies Thing like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I like to watch things on TV Satellite of love Satellit...

In the science of the mind there is no forgiving Paralyzed I lay here sleeping quiet as a little child Heart starts beating, blood rushing pounding moving quie...

When I was a young man courting the girls I played me the waiting game If a maid refused me with a tossing curls, oh, I let the old earth, take a couple of whir...

Take me for what I am A star newly emerging Long simmering explodes Inside the self is reeling In the pocket of the heart, in the rushing of the blood In the mu...

I was thinking of things that I hate to do, -sex with your parents Things you do to me or I do to you, baby, -sex with your parents Something fatter or uglier t...

She's my best friend certainly not your average girl Yeah, she's my best friend she understands me when I'm feeling - - Down-down-down-down-down-down you know ...

All the people had their share of the glory Looking out after you It's just a story about winners and glory And you know that it's true Ah ha, oh yeah, you're j...

I was up in the morning with the TV blarin' brush my teeth sittin' watchin' the news All the beaches were closed the ocean was a Red Sea but there was no one th...

Sister Ray -White Light/White Heat Duck and Sally inside They're cooking for the down five Who're staring at Miss Rayon Who's busy licking up her big man I'm se...

Friends have said to lock the door and have an open house no more the said the Factory must change And slowly slip away But if I have to live in fear where wil...

Believe me, that's just a lie That's what she tells her friends There's a real song, the real song She won't even admit it to herself Narrow heart, the song let...

When you're growing up in a small town When you're growing up in a small town When you're growing up in a small town You say no one famous ever came from here W...

Smiles, I was taught never to smile I was told the stylish smiles of buffoonery Chicanery and larceny abound My mom said unless someone sticks you right in fron...

She calls on the phone She says she doesn't want to be alone She says it's making her neurotic But please don't mistake it for being erotic So alone, so all alo...

Some kinds of love Marguerita told Tom Between thought and expression lies a lifetime Situations arise because of the weather And no kinds of love Are better th...

Something happened I just don't understand Something happened It's making me feel mad Something happened, you don't hear about Oh, please that never did before...

(written by Isaac Hayes - David Porter) Coming to you, on a dusty road Good loving, I got a truck load And when you get it, you got something So don't worry, 'c...

If there?s rage inside you so you cannot think Spit it out If you get so angry that you cannot speak Spit it out Talk to him or her or it And tell them where th...

Remember your manners will you please take your hat off Your mother is dying listen to her cough We were always standing on ceremony We were always standing on ...

Starlight open wide, starlight open up you door This is New York calling with movies on the street Movies with real people, what you get is what you see Starlig...

We who have so much To you who have so little To you won don't have anything at all We who have so much More than any one man does need And you who don't have a...

(this song is a cover, originally written and performed by Lou Reed) Waltzing Matilda looked at her wallet The sexy one smiled in dismay She pulled out four twe...

Stupid man, hitchhiking out of a good life He says: "Catch you when " And he thinks he's got big, big planes Gonna build a house upon some land Oh, Casey, don't...

You've got the money, I've got the time You want your freedom, make your freedom mine 'Cause I've got the style it takes And money is all that it takes You've ...

Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset, jane is in her vest And me, I'm in a rock'n'roll band Ridin'a stutz bearcat, jim You know, th...

I see The Sword of Damocles is right above your head They're trying a new treatment to get you out of bed But radiation kills both bad and good it can not diffe...

holli came from miami FLA hitchhiked away across the USA plucked her eyebrows on the way shaved her legs then he was a she she said hey babe, take a walk on the...

I wish I had a talking book That told me how to act and look A talking book that contained keys To past and present memories A talking book that said your name...

Teach the gifted children Teach them to have mercy Teach them about sunsets Teach them about moonrise Teach them about anger The sin that comes with dawning Tea...

I was staring through a telescope at night at a large light in the sky Its spinning lights reminded me of you A star spinning in orbit lighting up the sky Or ma...

Can't help it, now, baby You better make your face get out of here, quick Maybe your was getting, aah, too rich It ain't like we ain't never seen this thing be...

This is the place where she lay her head When she went to bed at night And this is the place our children were conceived Candles lit the room brightly at night ...

And the actress is relayed and the actor comes home late And the plays have gone down the crowds have scattered way Neath the city lights and the street No tick...

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim They put Blood in his coffee and milk in his gin They stood over the soldier in The midst of the squ...

[Edgar:] Never bet the devil your head When I was an infant my mother treated me like a tough steak To her well regulated mind babies were the better for beati...

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 our...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Says that he'll blow your brains out Don'...

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 s...

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 brother...

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 t...

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 d...

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 ...

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...

[Spoken Track] [Poe:] 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 n...

I see the sword of Damocles is right above your head They're trying a new treatment to get you out of bed But radiation kills both bad and good, it cannot diffe...

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 vultur...

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 o...

[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 p...

I have no morals Some think me cheap And someone who despises The normalcy of heartbreak The purity of love But I worship the young And just formed angel Who ...

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 optim...