Lou Reed - Words & Music, May 1965

 

March 2

 

New Sensations (live at Farm Aid 1985)

...They was arguing about football as I waved and went outside
and I headed for those mountains feeling all warm inside
I love that Harley Davidson so much, you know that I could kiss her...

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 walk not be carried
I don’t want to give it up, I want to stay married
I ain’t no dog tied to a parked car
Ooohhh, new sensations
Ooohhh, new sensations
Talkin’ ‘bout some new sensations
Talkin’ ‘bout some new sensations
I want the principles of a timeless muse
I want to eradicate my negative views
And get rid of those people who are always on a down
It’s easy enough to say what is wrong
but that’s not what I want to hear all night long
Some people they are just like human Tuinals
Ooohhh, new sensations
Ooohhh, ooohhh, new sensations
Talkin’ ‘bout some new sensations
Talkin’ a new sensations
I took my Harley Sportster out for a ride
the engine felt good between my thighs
The air was cool, it was forty degrees outside
I rode to Pennsylvania by the Delaware Gap
sometimes I got lost and had to check the map
I stopped at a roadside diner for a burger and a coke
There were some country folk and some locals inside
somebody got themselves married and somebody died
I went to the juke box and I played myself a hillbilly song
They was arguing about football as I waved and went outside
and I headed for those mountains feeling all warm inside
I love that Harley Davidson so much, you know that I could kiss her
Ooohhh, new sensations
Ooohhh, ooohhh, new sensations

Heart Of A Dog - Laurie Anderson

Turning Time Around (Riavere Indietro Il Tempo) - Lou Reed

She says 'What do you call love?'
well I call it Harry
Oh, please I’m being serious what do you call love
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
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
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

call on me (the Raven - Lou Reed)

Caught in the crossbow of ideas and journeys
sit here reliving the other self’s mournings
Caught in the crossbow of ideas and dawnings
stand I

Reliving the past of the maddening impulse
violent upheaval, the pure driven instinct
The pure driven murder, the attraction of daring
stand I

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

Rowena:
A wild being from birth
my spirit spurns control
wondering the wide earth
searching for my soul
Dimly peering
I would surely find
what could there be more purely bright
in truth’s day-star

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

March 2, 1942 - Happy Birthday my Friend Lou, wherever you are!

September Song (Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson)

            https://youtu.be/RQsJK0voNRI   

        When I was a young man courting the girls
        I played me a waiting game
        If a maid refused me with tossing curls, oh
        I let the old earth, take a couple of whirls
        While I plied her with tears in place of pearls
        and as time came around she came my way
        As time came around she came
        For it's a long-long while
        from May to December
        And the days grow short
        when you reach September
        And I have lost my teeth
        and I'm walking in the little rain
        Hey honey, I haven't got the time
        for any waiting game
        And the days turn to gold
        as they grow few
        September
        November
        And these few golden days
        I'd like to spend them with you
        These golden days
        I'd like to spend them with you
        And the days dwindle down
        to a precious few
        September
        November
        And I'm not quite equipped
        for these waiting games
        I have a little money
        and I've had a little pain
        And these few golden days
        as the days grow so few
        These golden days
        I'd like to spend them with you
        These precious golden days
        I'd like to spend them with you
        September song
        September song
        September song
        September song

Claim To Fame

Talk talk, yak yak
watch out for that old one track
Get it up and get it back
making it upon your back

What Goes On?

Wild Child

Stavo parlando con Chuck nel suo vestito di Gengis Khan

E il suo cappello da mago

Parlava del suo film e di come stesse componendo

Una nuova colonna sonora

E poi parlammo dei ragazzi della costa

E tipi diversi di sapone organico

E del modo in cui i suicidi non lasciano biglietti

E poi parlammo di Lorraine

Si torna sempre a Lorraine

Stavo parlando a Bill che si era dato alle pillole

E alle corse sportive

Ha dovuto lasciar perdere dopo che il suo ultimo collasso

Lo ha spinto al limite

Poi abbiamo parlato di film e poesia

E del modo in cui un’attrice regge la sua borsetta

E di come la vita a volte possa andare a rotoli

Poi abbiamo parlato di Lorraine

Si torna sempre a parlare di Lorraine

E’ una bambina selvaggia

E nessuno può prenderla

È una bambina selvaggia

E nessuno può avvicinarla

dorme fuori per la strada

e vive tutta sola

senza una casa o un posto

e poi ti chiede “per favore

ehi tesoro hai qualche spicciolo?

oh, posso spezzarti il cuore?”

è una bambina selvaggia

è una bambina selvaggia

Stavo parlando con Betty delle sue audizioni

e di come l’avessero fatta star male

la vita di teatro è sicuramente piena

di fallimenti e delusioni

ma si rilassò dopo un po’ di vino

cosa che accade la maggior parte delle volte

poi ci siamo seduti e abbiamo parlato in rima

fino a quando abbiamo parlato di Lorraine

ah, si torna sempre a Lorraine

Stavo parlando con Ed che era stato dato per morto

da un amico comune

ha trovato buffo che io non avessi soldi da spendere per lui

così abbiamo diviso un pezzo di formaggio dolce

e abbiamo cantato delle nostre vite e sogni

e di come le cose possano scucirsi ai bordi

e poi abbiamo parlato di Lorraine,

si torna sempre a Lorraine

E’ una bambina selvaggia

E nessuno può prenderla

È una bambina selvaggia

E nessuno può avvicinarla

dorme fuori per la strada

e vive tutta sola

senza una casa o un posto

e poi ti chiede “per favore

ehi tesoro hai qualche spicciolo?

oh, posso spezzarti il cuore?”

è una bambina selvaggia

è una bambina selvaggia

berlin

(Uno

due

tre

Zugabe

tanti auguri cara Caroline

tanti auguri a te)

A Berlino, accanto al muro

eri alta un metro e settantacinque

era molto bello

lume di candela e Dubonnet con ghiaccio

Eravamo in un piccolo cafè

si sentivano le chitarre suonare

era molto bello

Oh, tesoro era il paradiso

(Eins

Zwei

Drei

Zugabe

Happy birthday dear Caroline

Happy birthday to you)

In Berlin by the wall

You were five foot ten inches tall

It was very nice

Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice

We were in a small cafe

You could hear the guitars play

It was very nice

Oh, honey it was paradise

perfect day

Proprio una giornata perfetta

bere sangria nel parco

e poi, più tardi, quando fa buio

tornare a casa

Proprio una giornata perfetta

dar da mangiare agli animali nello zoo

e poi, più tardi, anche un film

e poi a casa

Oh, è una giornata così perfetta

sono contento di averla trascorsa con te

Oh, una giornata così perfetta

mi fai venir voglia di restare con te

mi fai venir voglia di restare con te

Proprio una giornata perfetta

i problemi messi da parte

turisti solitari

è così divertente

Proprio una giornata perfetta

mi ha fatto dimenticare me stesso

ho pensato di essere un altro

una persona migliore

Oh, è stata una giornata così perfetta

sono contento di averla trascorsa con te

Oh, così perfetta questa giornata

mi fai venir voglia di restare con te

mi fai venir voglia di restare con te

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