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Words and music: Lou Reed & John Cale
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It was a very cold clear fall night
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I had a terrible dream
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Billy Name and Brigid were playing under my stair case on the second floor about two o'clock in the morning
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I woke up because Amos and Archie had started barking
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That made me very angry because I wasn't feeling well and I told them I was very cross the real me that they just better remember what happened to Sam the bad cat that was left at home and got sick and went pussy heaven
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It was a very cold clear fall night
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Some snowflakes were falling
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Gee, it was so beautiful
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and so I went to get my camera to take some pictures
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And then I was taking the pictures
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but the exposure thing wasn't right
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and I was going to call Fred or Gerry
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to find out how to get set it
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I was too late
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and then I remembered they were still probably at dinner
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and anyway
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I felt really bad and didn't want to talk to anybody
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but the snowflakes were so beautiful and real looking
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and I really wanted to hold them
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And that's when I heard the voices
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from down the hall near the stairs
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So I got a flashlight
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and I was scared and I went out into the hallway
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There's been all kinds of troubles
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lately in the neighborhood
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and someone's got to bring home the bacon and anyway
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there were Brigid and Billy playing
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And under the stair case
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was a little meadow sort of like the park at 23rd street
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where all the young kids go and play frisbee
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Gee, that must be fun
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maybe we should do an article on that in the magazine
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but they'll just tell me I'm stupid and it won't sell
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but I'll just hold my ground this time, I mean
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it's my magazine, isn't it?
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So I was thinking that as the snowflakes fell
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and I heard those voices having so much fun
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Gee, it would be so great to have some fun
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So I called Billy
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but either he didn't hear me or he didn't want to answer
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which was so strange
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because
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even if I don't like reunions I've always loved Billy
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I'm so glad he's working
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I mean it's different than Ondine
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He keeps touring with those movies
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and he doesn't even pay us and the film
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I mean the film's just going to disintegrate and then what
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I mean he's so normal off of drugs
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I just don't get it
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And then I saw John Cale
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he's been looking really great
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He's been coming by the office to exercise with me
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Ronnie said I have a muscle
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but he's been really mean since he went to AA
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I mean what does it mean
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when you give up drinking and then you're still so mean
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He says I'm being lazy but I'm not
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I'm just can't find any ideas
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I mean I'm just not
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let's face it
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going to get any ideas up at the office
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And seeing John made me think of the Velvets
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and I had been thinking about them
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when I was on St. Marks Place
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going to that new gallery those sweet new kids have opened
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but the thought I was old
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and then I saw the old DOM
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the old club where we did our first shows
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It was so great
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And I don't understand about that Velvet's first album
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I mean I did the cover
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I was the producer
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and I always see it repackaged
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and I've never gotten a penny from it
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How could that be
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I should call Henry
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but it was good seeing John
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I did a cover for him
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but I did in black and white and he change it to color
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It would have been worth more if he'd left it my way
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but you can never tell any body anything I've leaned that
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I tried calling again to Billy and John
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they wouldn't recognize me it was like I wasn't there
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Why won't they let me in
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And then I saw Lou
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I'm so mad at him
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Lou Reed got married and didn't invite me
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I mean is it because he thought I'd bring too many people
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I don't get it
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could have at least called
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I mean he's doing so great
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Why doesn't he call me?
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I saw him at the MTV show
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and he was one row away and he didn't even say hello
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I don't get it
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You know I hate Lou
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I really do
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He won't even hire us for his videos
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And I was proud of him
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I was so scared today
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There was blood leaking thought my shirt
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from those old scars from being shot
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And the corset I wear to keep my insides in was hurting
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And I did three sets of fifteen pushups
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and four sets of ten setups
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But then my insides hurt
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and I saw drops of blood on my shirt and I remember
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the doctors saying I was dead
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And then later they had to take blood out of my hand
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'couse they ran out or veins
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but then
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all this thinking was making me an old grouch
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and you can't do anything anyway so
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if they wouldn't let me play with them in my own dream
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I was just going to have to make another
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and another
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and another
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Gee, wouldn't it be funny if I died in this dream
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before I could make another one up
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And nobody called
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And nobody came
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