The Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground Lyrics
1.Candy Says

(reed)

Candy says i've come to hate my body
And all that it requires in this world
Candy says i'd like to know completely
What others so discreetly talk about

Candy says i hate the quiet places
That cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says i hate the big decisions
That cause endless revisions in my mind

I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I'm gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when i'm older
What do you think i'd see
If i could walk away from me


2.What Goes On

(reed)

What goes on in your mind?
I think that i am falling down.
What goes on in your mind?
I think that i am upside down.
Lady, be good, and do what you should,
You know it'll work allright.
Lady, be good, do what you should,
You know it'll be allright.

I'm goin' up, and i'm goin' down.
I'm gonna fly from side to side.
See the bells, up in the sky,
Somebody's cut the string in two.
Lady, be good, and do what you should,
You know it'll work alright.
Lady, be good, do what you should,
You know it'll be alright.

One minute one, one minute two.
One minute up and one minute down.
What goes on here in your mind?
I think that i am falling down.
Lady, be good, and do what you should,
You know it'll work alright.
Lady, be good, do what you should,
You know it'll be alright.


3.Some Kinda Love

(reed)

Some kinds of love
Marguerita told tom
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime
Situations arrive because of the weather
And no kinds of love
Are better than others

Some kinds of love
Marguerita told tom
Like a dirty french novel
The absurd courts the vulgar
And some kinds of love
The possibilites are endless
And for me to miss one
Would seem to be groundless

I heard what you said
Marguerita heard tom
And of course you're not charmless
For a bore is a straight line
That finds a wealth in division
And some kinds of love
Are mistaken for vision

Put jelly on your shoulder
Let us do what you fear most
That from wich you recoil
But which still makes your eyes moist

Put jelly on your shoulder
Lie down on the carpet
Between thought and expression
Let us now kiss the culprit

I don't know just what it's all about
Put on your red pajamas and find out


4.Pale Blue Eyes

(reed)

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 blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes

Thought of you as my mountain top
Thought of you as my peak
Thought of you as everything
I've had but could'nt keep
I've had but could'nt keep

If i could make the world as pure and strange as what i see
I'd put you in the mirror i put in front of me
I'd put in front of me

Skip a life completely, stuff it in a cup
She said money is like us in time
It lies but can't stand up
Down for you is up

It was good what we did yesterday
And i'd do it once again
The fact that you are married
Only proves that you're my best friend
But it's truly, truly a sin
Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes


5.Jesus

(reed)

Jesus, help me find my proper place
Jesus, help me find my proper place
Help me in my weakness
'cos i'm falling out of grace
Jesus
Jesus


6.Beginning To See The Light

(reed)

Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard,
But still they never get it right.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Now i'm beginning to see the light.

Wine in the morning
And some breakfast at night.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Here we go again
Playing the fool again.
Here we go again
Acting hard again.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Now i'm beginning to see the light.

Well i'm beginning to see the light.
I'm beginning to see the light.
I wore my teeth in my hands
So i could mess the hair of the night
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Hey i'm beginning to see the light.
I met myself in a dream
And i just wanna tell you - everything was alright
I'm beginning to see the light.
Here comes two of you,
Which one will you chose?
One is black, one is blue.
Don't look just what to do.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Now i'm beginning to see the light.

Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
Some people work very hard
But still they never get it right
Well i'm beginning to see the light.
There are problems in these times
But none of them are mine
Baby, i'm beginning to see the light.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
Here we go again,
I thought that you were my friend.
How does it feel to be loved?
How does it feel to be loved?


7.I'm Set Free

(reed)

I've been set free and i've been bound
To the memories of yesterday's clouds
I've been set free and i've been bound

And now i'm set free
I'm set free
I'm set free to find a new illusion

I've been blinded but
Now i can see
What in the world has happened to me
The prince of stories who walk right by me

And now i'm set free
I'm set free
I'm set free to find a new illusion

I've been set free and i've been bound
Let me tell you people
What i found
I saw my head laughing
Rolling on the ground

And now i'm set free
I'm set free
I'm set free to find a new illusion


8.That's The Story Of My Life

(reed)

That's the story of my life
That's the difference between wrong and right
But billy said, both those words are dead
That's the story of my life


9.The Murder Mystery

(reed)

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Candy screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring
memories, both lovely and guiltfree, lurid and lovely with
twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laghter,
laconic giggles
Ui fort the passions, in order to justify most spurious desires,
rectify moments, most serious and urgent, to hail upon the face
of most odious time, requiring replies most facile and vacuous,
w
Ords nearly singed, with the heartbeat of passions, spew forth
with the grace of a tart going under, subject of great concern,
noble origin

Right voice (reed, yule)

Denigrate obtuse and active verbs pronouns, skewer the sieve of
optical sewer, release the handle that holds all the gates up,
puncture the eyeballls, that seep all the muck up, read all the
boo
D he people worth reading and still see the muck on the sky of
the ceiling

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Please raise the flag rosy red carpet envy english used here is
messenger is nervous it's no fun at all out here in the hall

Right voice (reed, yule)

Mister moonlight succulent smooth and gorgeous. isn't it nice?
we're number one and so forth. isn't it sweet being unique?

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

For screeching and yelling and various offenses, lower the queen
and bend her over the tub, against the state, the country, the
committe, hold her head under the water please for an hour, for
gr
Ng and spewing and various offenses, puncture the bloat with the
wing of a sparrow, the inverse, the obverse, the converse,the
reverse, the sharpening wing of the edge of a sparrow, for
suitable
Onings too numerous to mention, as the queen is fat she is
devoured by rats there is one way to skin a cat or poison a rat
it is hetero four hear to three forthirightly stated.

Right voice (reed, yule)

Relent and obverse and inverse and perverse and reverse the
inverse of perverse and reverse and reverse an reverse and
reverse and reverse and chop it and pluck it and cut it and spit
it and se
To joy on the edge of a cyclop and spinet it to rage on the edge
of a cylindrical minute.

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Put down that rag simpering, callow and morose who let you in?
if i knew, then i could get out the murder you see is a mystery
to me

Right voice (reed, yule)

Dear mister muse fellow of wit and gentry medieval ruse filling
the shallow and empty, fools that duel duel in pools.

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

To rembrandt and oswald, to peanuts and ketchup, sanctimonious
sycophants stir in the bushes, up to the stand with your foot on
the bible as king i must order and constantly arouse, if you
swear
Atch up and throw up and up up, a king full of virgin kiss me
and spin it, excuse to willow and wander dark wonders divest me
of robes-sutures harry and pig meat, the fate of a nation, rests
har
Your bosoms, the king on his throne, puts his hand down his
robe, the torture of inverse and silk screen and harry, and set
the tongue squealing the reverse and inverse

Right voice (reed, yule)

Tantalize poets with visions of grandeur, their faces turn blue
with the reek of the compost, as the livig try hard to retain
what the dead lost, with double dead sickness from writing at
what c
Nd business and business and reverse and reverse and set the
brain reeling the inverse and perverse

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Objections suffice apelike and tactile bassoon oboeing me cordon
the virus' section off to the left is what is not right

Right voice (reed, yule)

English arcane tantamount here to frenzy passing for me
lascivious elder passion corpulent filth disguised as silk

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Contempt, contempt and contempt for the boredom, i shall poison
the city and sink it with fire, for cordless and harry and
apepig and scissor, the messenger's wig seems fraught with
desire, for
Erry picnics and pince-nez and magpies, the mseenger's skirt,
would you plaese hook it higher, for children and adults all
thos under ninety, how truly disgusting. would you please put it
down?
Ay in this fray is no condom worth saving, as king i'm quite
just, but it's just quite impossible, a robe and a robe and a
robe and a bat, no double class inverse could make lying worth
dying

Right voice (reed, yule)

With cheap simian melodies, hillbilly outgush, for illiterate
ramblings for cheap understanding the simple the inverse, the
compost, the reverse, the obtuse and stupid, and business, and
busines
D cheap, stupid lyrics, and simple mass reverse while the real
thing is dying

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Accept the pig, enter the owl and gorgeous, king on the left, it
on the right and primping adjusting his nose as he reads from
his scroll
Folksy knockwurst peel back the skin of french and what do you
find? follicles intertwinning, succulent prose wrapped up in
robes

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Off with his head, take his head from his neck off, requiring
memories both lovely and guiltfree, put out his eyes, then cut
his nose off, sanctimonious sycophants stir in the bushes, scoop
out
Rain, put a string where his ears were, all the king's horses
and all the king's men, swing the whole mess at the end of the
wire, scratch out his eyes with the tip of a razor, let the wire
exte
Om the tip of a rose, caroline, caroline, caroline, oh! but
retains the remnants of what once was a nose, pass me my robe,
fill my bath up with water

Right voice (reed, yule)

Jumpsuit and pig meat and making his fortune, while making them
happy with the inverse and obverse and making them happy and
making them happy with the coy and the stupid, just another dumb
lac
Who puts out one thing, while singing the other, but the real
thing's alone and it is no man's brother

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

No one knows no nose is good news and senseless extend the wine
drink here toast to selfless ten year old port is perfect in
court

Right voice (reed, yule)

Safety is nice not an unwise word spoken scary, bad dreams made
safe in lovely songs no doom or gloom allowed in this room

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, cascade and cyanide,
rachaminoff, beethoven skull silly wagon and justice and
perverse and reverse the inverse and inverse and inverse,
blueberry cata
Questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due
cry, to battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing
on minstrels and choking on dirt, disease please seems the order
E day, please the king, please the king, please the king day,
casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, point of order
return the king here to the ceiling

Right voice (reed, yule)

Oh, not to be whistled or studied or hummed or remembered at
nights, when the i is alone, but to skewer and ravage and savage
and split with the grace of a diamond, bellicose wit, to stun
and t
Gger with words as such stone, that those who do hear cannot
again return home

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Razzamatazz, there's nothing on my shoulder, lust is a must,
shaving my head's made me bolder, will you kindly read what it
was i brought thee

Right voice (reed, yule)

Hello to ray, hello to godiva and angel, who let you in? isn't
it nice the party? aren't the lights pretty at night?

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Sick leaf and sorrow and pincers net-scissors, regard and
refrain from the daughters of marriage, regards for the elders
and youngest in carriage, regard and regard for the inverse and
perverse
Bverse, and diverse, of reverse and reverse, regard from the
sick, the dumb, and the camel from pump's storing water, like
brain is too marrow to x-ray and filthy and cutting and peeling
to skin
To skin and to bone and to structure to livid and pallid and
turgid and structured and structured and structured and
structured and structured and regard and refrain, the sick and
the dumb, inve
Reverse and perverse

Right voice (reed, yule)

Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the seething for writhing
and reeling and two-bit reportage, for sick with the body and
sinister holy, the drown burst blue babies now dead on the
seashore,
Alorous horseman, who hang from the ceiling, the pig on the
carpet, the dusty pale jissom, that has no effect for the sick
with the see-saw, the inverse, obverse converse, reverse of
reverse the
Rse and converse of reverse and perverse and sweet pyrotechnics,
and let's have another of inverse, converse, diverse, perverse
and reverse, hell's graveyard is damned as they chew on their
brai
He slick and the scum, reverse, inverse and perverse

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Plowing while it's done away dumb and ready pig meat sick upon
the carpet climb into the casket safe within the parapet sack is
in the parapet pigs are out and growling slaughter by the
seashore
The lifeguard drowning sea is full of fishes fish's full of
china china plates are falling all fall down sick and shiny
carpet lie before my eyes eyes lead me to the ceiling walk upon
the wall w
Ender as the green grass drink the whisky horror see the young
girls dancing flies upon the beaches beaches are for sailors
nuns across the sea-wall black hood horseman raging swordsman
eating f
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Right voice (reed, yule)

Sick upon the staircase sick upon the staircase blood upon the
pillow climb into the parapet see the church bells gleaming
knife that scrapes a sick plates of dentures full of air holes
the tail
Uldn't mend straight shoot her full of air holes climbing up the
casket take me to the casket teeth upon her red throat screw me
in the daisies rip apart her holler snip the seas fantastic
treat
Like a sailor full and free and nervous out to make his fortune
either this or that way sickly or in good health piss upon a
building like a dog in training teach to heel or holler yodel on
a si
Ng down upon the carpet

Left voice (morrison, tucker)

Fire on the carpet set the house ablazing seize and bring it
flaming gently to the ground ground dizzy bell miss fortune fat
and full of love-juice drip it on the carpet down below the fire
hose
And whisky fortune sail me to the moon, dear drunken dungeon
sailors headless roman horsemen the king and queen are empty
their heads are in the outhouse fish upon the water bowl upon
the savio
Oothless wigged laureate plain and full of fancy name upon a
letterhead impressing all wheatgerm love you for a nickel ball
you for a quarter set the casket flaming do not go gentle
blazing

Right voice (reed, yule)

Tickle polyester sick within the parapet screwing for a dollar
sucking on a fire-hose chewing on a rubber line tied to chairs
and rare bits pay another player oh you're such a good lad
here's an
Dollar tie him to the bedpost sick with witches' covens craving
for a raw meat bones upon the metal sick upon the circle down
upon the carpet down upon the carpet down below the parapet
waiting
Your bidding pig upon the carpet tumescent railroad
neuro-anaesthesia analog ready for a good look drooling at the
birches swinging from the birches succulent nebraska


10.After Hours

(reed)

One, two, three
If you close the door
The night could last forever
Leave the sunshine out
And say hello to never

All the people are dancing
And they're having such fun
I wish it could happen to me

But if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again

If you close the door
The night could last forever
Leave the wine-glass out
And drink a toast to never

Oh, someday i know
Someone will look into my eyes
And say hello
You're my very special one

But if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again

Dark party bars, shiny cadillac cars
And the people on subways and trains
Looking gray in the rain, as they stand disarrayed
Oh, but people look well in the dark

And if you close the door
The night could last forever
Leave the sunshine out
And say hello to never

All the people are dancing
And they're having such fun
I wish it could happen to me

Cause if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again
I'd never have to see the day again, once more
I'd never have to see the day again