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Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.
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Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.
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Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
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Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.
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Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.
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Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
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The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
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There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light
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When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.
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Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
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Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?
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Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.
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As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
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Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
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What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.
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Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
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The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
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I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?
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Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.
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And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
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When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your 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.
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I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.
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I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington 125
Feeling sick and dirty more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man.
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I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
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It's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you.
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Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
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When you're growing up in a small town
You know you'll grow down in a small town
There is only one good use for a small town
You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.
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Born:
March 2, 1942
Died:
October 27, 2013
(aged 71)
Bio:
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades.
Known for:
Transformer (1972)
Berlin (1973)
Metal Machine Music (2007)
New York (1989)
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