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“There's a bit of magic in everything
And then some loss to even things out.”
― I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
And then some loss to even things out.”
― I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.”
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“Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? ”
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“When you think the night has seen your mind,
That inside you're twisted and unkind,
Let me stand to show that you are blind.
Please put down you hands 'cause I see you.
I'll be you mirror, reflect what you are.
I'll Be Your Mirror ”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
That inside you're twisted and unkind,
Let me stand to show that you are blind.
Please put down you hands 'cause I see you.
I'll be you mirror, reflect what you are.
I'll Be Your Mirror ”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“I'm still not sure I didn't die”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“Things always seem to end before they start”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are
In case you don't know
I'll be the sun
The wind and the rain
The light on your door
To show that you're home.
When you think the nights is in your mind,
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands, 'cause I see you.
I find it hard
To believe you don't know
The beauty you are
But if you don't
Let me be your eyes
A hand to your darkness
So you won't be afraid.
When you think the night is in your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands, 'cause I see you.
I'll be your mirror.”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Reflect what you are
In case you don't know
I'll be the sun
The wind and the rain
The light on your door
To show that you're home.
When you think the nights is in your mind,
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands, 'cause I see you.
I find it hard
To believe you don't know
The beauty you are
But if you don't
Let me be your eyes
A hand to your darkness
So you won't be afraid.
When you think the night is in your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands, 'cause I see you.
I'll be your mirror.”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“There is only one good thing about a small town
You know that you want to get out
- Songs for Drella”
― I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
You know that you want to get out
- Songs for Drella”
― I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
“They say no one person can do it all
But you want to in your head
But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce
So what is left instead
You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you
You have to start at the beginning again
And just this moment
This wonderful fire started up again
When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly
When you pass through, I'm better than you all
When you pass through anger and self deprecation
And have the strength to acknowledge it all
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic
That let you survive your own war
You find that that fire is passion
And there's a door up ahead, not a wall
- "Magic And Loss" The Summation”
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But you want to in your head
But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce
So what is left instead
You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you
You have to start at the beginning again
And just this moment
This wonderful fire started up again
When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly
When you pass through, I'm better than you all
When you pass through anger and self deprecation
And have the strength to acknowledge it all
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic
That let you survive your own war
You find that that fire is passion
And there's a door up ahead, not a wall
- "Magic And Loss" The Summation”
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“I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.”
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“I think it's important that people don't feel alone.”
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“Let's do what you fear most
That from which you recoil
But which still makes your eyes moist”
― Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics
That from which you recoil
But which still makes your eyes moist”
― Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics
“I love women, I think they're great.”
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“And no kinds of love are better than others.
Some Kinda Love”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Some Kinda Love”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck..”
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“Sha la la, man...”
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“It's just a temporary thing.”
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“Please don't set me free Death means a lot me”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“Anyone who ever had a heart,
He wouldnʻt turn around and break it.
Anyone who ever played a part,
he wouldnʻt turn around and fake it.
Sweet Jane ”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
He wouldnʻt turn around and break it.
Anyone who ever played a part,
he wouldnʻt turn around and fake it.
Sweet Jane ”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“I'll be your mirror,
Reflect what you are,
In case you don't know.
I'll Be Your Mirror”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Reflect what you are,
In case you don't know.
I'll Be Your Mirror”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“those were different times.”
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“The only thing constantly changing is change
The living only become dead
Your hair falling out
Your liver swelled up
Your teeth rot your gums and your chin
Your ass starts to sag
Your balls shrivel up
Your cock swallowed up in its sack
The only thing constantly changing is change
And it's always change on your back.”
― The Raven: POEtry Album
The living only become dead
Your hair falling out
Your liver swelled up
Your teeth rot your gums and your chin
Your ass starts to sag
Your balls shrivel up
Your cock swallowed up in its sack
The only thing constantly changing is change
And it's always change on your back.”
― The Raven: POEtry Album
“I'm waiting' for my man,
Got twenty-six dollars in my hand.
He's never early, he's always late,
First thing you learn is that you always gotta' wait'
- Waiting for the Man”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Got twenty-six dollars in my hand.
He's never early, he's always late,
First thing you learn is that you always gotta' wait'
- Waiting for the Man”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
“Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.”
― Perfect Day
― Perfect Day
“She's my best friend, better than a dog or car.”
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“Stephanie says that she wants to know
Why she's given half her life,
to people she hates now”
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Why she's given half her life,
to people she hates now”
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“It takes a busload of faith to get by.”
― Lou Reed's New York
― Lou Reed's New York
“Coney Island Baby"
You know, man, when I was a young man in high school
You believe in or not, that I wanted to play football for the coach
All those older guys, they said he was mean and cruel
But you know, I wanted to play football, for the coach
They said I was to little too light weight to play line-back
So I say I'm playing right-in
Wanted to play football for the coach
Cause, you know some day, man, you gotta stand up straight
Unless you're gonna fall
Then you're gonna die
And the straightest dude I ever knew
Was standing right for me, all the time
So I had to play football for the coach
And I wanted to play football for the coach
When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour
And you find that your soul, it has been up for sale
And you getting to think about, all the things you done
And you getting to hate just about everything
But remember the princess who lived on the hill
Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong
And right now she just might come shining through
and the glory of love, glory of love
Glory of love, just might come through
And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off
They're talking behind your back saying, man
you are never going to be a human being
And you start thinking again
About all those things that you've done
And who it was and who it was
And all the different things you made every different scene
Ah, but remember that the city is a funny place
Something like a circus or a sewer
And just remember, different people have peculiar tastes
And the Glory of love, the glory of love
The glory of love, might see you through
Yeah, but now, now
Glory of love, the glory of love
The glory of love, might see you through
Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love
Glory of love, glory of love
Glory of love, now, glory of love, now
Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love
Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through
Oh, my Coney Island baby, now
(I'm a Coney Island baby, now)
I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel
And the Lord appeared and he has one made of two
Coney Island baby
Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you
Lou Reed, Coney Island Baby (1975)”
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You know, man, when I was a young man in high school
You believe in or not, that I wanted to play football for the coach
All those older guys, they said he was mean and cruel
But you know, I wanted to play football, for the coach
They said I was to little too light weight to play line-back
So I say I'm playing right-in
Wanted to play football for the coach
Cause, you know some day, man, you gotta stand up straight
Unless you're gonna fall
Then you're gonna die
And the straightest dude I ever knew
Was standing right for me, all the time
So I had to play football for the coach
And I wanted to play football for the coach
When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour
And you find that your soul, it has been up for sale
And you getting to think about, all the things you done
And you getting to hate just about everything
But remember the princess who lived on the hill
Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong
And right now she just might come shining through
and the glory of love, glory of love
Glory of love, just might come through
And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off
They're talking behind your back saying, man
you are never going to be a human being
And you start thinking again
About all those things that you've done
And who it was and who it was
And all the different things you made every different scene
Ah, but remember that the city is a funny place
Something like a circus or a sewer
And just remember, different people have peculiar tastes
And the Glory of love, the glory of love
The glory of love, might see you through
Yeah, but now, now
Glory of love, the glory of love
The glory of love, might see you through
Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love
Glory of love, glory of love
Glory of love, now, glory of love, now
Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love
Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through
Oh, my Coney Island baby, now
(I'm a Coney Island baby, now)
I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel
And the Lord appeared and he has one made of two
Coney Island baby
Man, I swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you
Lou Reed, Coney Island Baby (1975)”
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