Places That Are Gone
In Our Lives
Listen To Me
The man inside the plastic door
Is shouting out your name
And who’d believe your selfish word is falling down again
All around you little people shouting yes it’s true
She wants him and he wants her and maybe I want you
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
The blankness of my face reveals a time so long ago
A photograph that just conceals someone I used to know
Faces whirling sometimes blurring
Where we ought to go
But you can’t return til you learn the feeling that is so
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
Yeah, you’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
Carried it with me
And it a free love
Take it from me please
All I want to say
Is if I’m never understanding will you always feel this way
Yeah yeah
Well the neighborhood’s been all so good but
We will always be
Stranded back behind the light that flows eternally
Fingers snapping wires wrapping years
Around your brain
They won’t believe that someone didn’t know you lived in vain.
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
You’ve gotta listen to me listen to me now.
Paper Words And Lies
Gold Town
When someone told me where to go
Way down past the last horizon
Not realizing
I walked down by the alley where people knew
Just where to stare blindly
Someone finding
Where you’d gone
I couldn’t believe your predicament
Now I’m stuck in the thick of it
How could you be so enchanted
Will I lose another friend
To a world that never ends
Inside of a sea of false pride
I feel down in this gold town
I feel down in this gold town
So we run back to the scene
Of a hundred dreams in fire
Going higher
Now you’ve found out what the hell
They have done to all your brothers
And many others
I feel down in this gold town
I feel down in this gold town
I feel down in this gold town
I feel down in this gold town
Kill Your Sons
All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electro shock
They say, they let you live at home, with mom and dad
Instead of mental hospital
But every time you tried to read a book
You couldn’t get to page 17
‘Cause you forgot, where you were
So you couldn’t even read
Don’t you know, they’re gonna kill your sons
Don’t you know, they’re gonna kill, kill your sons
They’re gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run run run run run run run run away
Mom informed me on the phone
She didn’t know what to do about dad
Took an axe and broke the table
Aren’t you glad you’re married
And sister, she got married on the island
And her husband takes the train
He’s big and he’s fat and he doesn’t even have a brain
They’re gonna kill your sons
Don’t you know, they’re gonna kill, kill your sons
Don’t you know, they’re gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run away
Creedmore treated me very good
But Paine Whitney was even better
And when I flipped on PHC
I was so sad I didn’t even get a letter
All of the drugs, that we took, it really was lots of fun
But when they shoot you up with thorizene on crystal smoke
You choke like a son of a gun
Don’t you know, they’re gonna kill your sons
Don’t you know, they’re gonna kill, kill your sons
They’re gonna kill, kill your sons
Until they run run run run run run run run away
(c) Lou Reed
Call On Me
As Life Goes By
My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe
Underworld
Astronomy
The Story Ends
You’ve come a ways from the midway
10,000 lights by the sea
Your mother cares about your luminous affair
Even though she always set you free
These things that I have tried to keep inside
Fall away just before the story ends
I felt alone in the mirrored dome
You ran back on to the sea
And your father cares about your luminous affair
Even though he always set you free
And for all you know they’ll never let you go
Just before your life is over the story ends