Oh I can’t say what qualifies as pain / So transfixed by the wavering flame / Mortal kings of each grade and grain erased / Oh I’m blessed • The slant may rain knows my door / Tambourines my floor in four / Laughs and shakes my folded face where Jesus mowed my lawn • Fame has legs, blazing chrome / Amputate but it’s never quite gone / Rakes in clover shown like snakes shine over rate my crime • Why kill a man when you can drive him crazy / Why make it end when my amusement always depends on the joke / Won’t you lend me my punchline • As a favor, can you be entertained so that / day I can savor whatever remains / Of hurricanes too rattled to romance massive plates of circumstances
Keith Richards, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett, and more pay tribute to the enduring and visionary music of Lou Reed. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 23, 2024