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"She started shaking to that fine, fine music
You know her life was saved by rock and roll"

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"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime"

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Life's like forever becoming
But life's forever dealing in hurt
Now life's like death without living
That's what life's like without you
...
What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking
It must be better not to be thinking at all
A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete
No not much, not much at all
...
What's good?
What's good?
Not much at all
Life's good-
But not fair at all

- "What's Good - The Thesis" from "Magic and Loss”

I read Lou's lyrics like poetry, because that's what they are: touching, affecting, harrowing, sardonic poems. He has some "Yeah, Baby!" lyrics, of course, but mostly he poured himself into his compositions with a brutally beautiful honesty. ??
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"Just a perfect day, you made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else, someone good"

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"Most of you won't like this, and I don't blame you at all. It's not meant for you." ?

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“My week beats your year.” 🖤

The myriad choices of his fate set themselves out upon
A plate for him to choose what had he to lose
Not a ghost-bloodied country all covered with sleep
Where the black angel did weep
Not an old city street in the east
Gone to choose
& wandering's brother walked on through the night
With his hair
In his face
Long a long splintered cut from the knife of GT
The Rally Man's patter ran on through the dawn
Until we said so long to his skull
Shrill yell

"They say the president's dead
No one can find his head
It's been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it
He had seemed so fit
And I'm sick of it
I'm sick of you
Bye bye bye"

"And no kinds of love
Are better than others...

And some kinds of love
The possibilities are endless
And for me to miss one
Would seem to be groundless."

- Some Kinda Love
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@Trashcanman I'm holding you at least partly responsible for this impulse buy George! ? Your profile tagline from the Velvet Underground's "Oh, Sweet Nuthin'" had me humming Lou Reed songs all afternoon, then I saw this when I went to the bookshop, and opened it at random to "Temptation Inside Your Heart", and was unable to resist!