John Davies Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.
Though best known for his work in rock music, Cale has worked in various genres including drone drone music , noise noise music and classical classical music . Since departing from The Velvet Underground in 1968 he has released... [read more] - Here She Comes Now
Now, if she ever comes now nowIf she ever comes now, nowIf she ever comes nowNow, if she ever comes now nowIf she ever comes now, nowIf she ever comes nowAw, it looks so good,Aw, she's made out of woodJust look and...
- Angel Of Death
Sushi for Shabu. You keep calling me. You keep calling me.Angel of Death. I have thought I heard you singing. Angel of Death. I have heldthe flutter of your seductive wings. Angel of Death. I have seen you counting...
- The Gift
Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit. It was now Mid-August which meant that he had been separated from Marsha for more than two months. Two months, and all he had to show was three dog-eared letters and two very...
- Streets Come Alive
Desparation sets the clock, buried treasure, call the shots, family jewels in the vault, sleep safe at any cost.When the life begins to fade, snakes rattle in the cage, nasty creatures on the crawl, nothing dead as...
- Modern World
In the shadows of the night come the friends of fantasy dancing forward towardthe dawn, wrapped in coats of vanity. In the closets in the home hang the toastsof days gone by, breaking every haunted scheme confusing...
- Old China
Sitting 'round, talking 'bout old China and how the ladies hair will go to grey, paying for a speedy revolution, hoping those fine lines will go away. Someone screams about abuse of power, so lonely there was nothing...
- Who's In Charge?
Who's in Charge? Who's in Charge? Who's in Charge? Who's in Charge?Is it the Army? Is it the Money? Are you responsible? I'm not responsible. You wanna die now? Why not, it's a good day to die.Who's in charge? Who's...
- Sister Ray
Duck and Sally insideThey're cooking for the down fiveWho's starin' at Miss RayonWho's busy lickin' up her pig penI'm searching for my mainlineI said I couldn't hit it sidewaysI said I couldn't hit it sidewaysOh, just...
- Overture
Overture - a) A Tourist - b) A Contact - c) A PrisonerExcuse me, excuse me! Can you show me the way out of here?Of course. This way. Just pass The Headless Horsemen, the Caf¨¦ Shabu.And how far is that?Not far....
- Pastoral Angst
Welcome to the goldrush, ladies and gentlemen, where California begins and maybe ends.California is the last stop on the great hitchhike west and now it's getting a little full. Too many thumbs. Well, when you get too...
- Short Of Time
Wasting time, we wait for answers, every time we throw the dice. Breaking down all delusions, wasting time.Finding time, we take no chances. Treating time, and pulling punches. Losing time ruins the dance. Wasting...
- Paradise Nevada
God knows how long she was waiting on the mountain, staring at the river, watching all her dreams go by. Every single morning she sang of crystal fountains, counting the days until she spread her wings and fly. She...
- The High And Mighty Road
Before the end of the beginning, before the finish credits role, there is a brief but brutal truth along the high and mighty road. Faces tend to run together, names be lost and legends told, of the ways to be forgiven...
- Secrets
What do you think is going on here the old man said from his chair? D'You think this is anything new? Now look here son. This is just like it was back in the old days before the last war? Then the politics changed,...
- Ocean Life
The sky's full of dirty, aching air, that's burning a greasy yellow and zoomingslowly in on everyone, [untie] these fighting sunsets that will not be fulfilled.The noise on her eyes is still there, even when the...
- White Light / White Heat
White LightGoin' messing up my mindWhite LightDon't you know it's gonna make me go blind?White HeatIit tickles me down to my toesWhite LightHave mercy White Light have it goodness knowsWhite LightWhite LightGoin'...
- Maps Of The World
May I help you, sir?Yes, I'd like to buy a map, please.What kind of map?As up-to-date as possible, I'm thinking of doing a bit of travelling and I need the latest world atlas.I'm sorry but we may be in a bit of...
- Lady Godiva's Operation
Lady Godiva, hair dressed so demurelyPats the head of another curly-haired boyJust another toySick with silence she weeps sincerelySaying words that have all so clearly been saidSo long agoDraperies wrapped gently...
- Cafe Shabu
Welcome to the Caf¨¦ Shabu. Permit me to introduce you to some of our regulars. Starting on my immediate left, ladies and gentlemen, here in Caf¨¦ Shabu, you'll note a poet, a man of words by trade. And yes,...
- Broken Hearts
Consternation on the dance-floor I can't take it anymore.My ugly girl-friend has these big eyes, she's running out the door.Get her back, the regulars cry.All the bar-flies are going dry.We need some business says the...
- I Heard Her Call My Name
Here it comes the count-downIt's gone gone, babyGot my eyes wide openEver since I was crippled on Monday,Got my eyeballs on my knees, a baby-walkingI rapped for hours with Mad Mary Williams,She said she never...
- Darling I Need You
Woke up early this morningSomething wrong inside my headTook a look around for breakfastFirst thing I see is you're not thereSo where were you, where were you?Where were you, when I needed you?Where were you, where...
- The Jeweller
Very slowly he sipped his tea, not shifting his glance from the thick double spaced printing he read with his jeweller's eyeEngrossed in his corner, he passed onto the other inhabitants of the room a scrawled...
- Heartbreak Hotel
Words & music by Mae B. Axton - Tommy Durden - Elvis PresleyWell, since my baby left me,I found a new place to dwell.It's down at the end of lonely streetat Heartbreak Hotel.You make me so lonely baby,I get so...
- Guts
The bugger in the short sleeves ***ed my wifeDid it quick and splitBack home, fresh as a daisy to Maisy, oh MaisyAnd the twelve-bore it stood in the cornerQuite operatic in its self disgustIt blew him all over the...
- Dirty***Rock'n'Roll
Well it's too damn early and your eyes are bleedingFrom the vicious bottle the night beforeAnd the last thing you need is a nicety-niceAnd small talk crawls out your earsMaybe it makes you feel just like an undercover...
- Please
Won't you help me please,I'm growing oldA million years agoWon't you help me sneeze,I've caught a coldAnother way to goJust hold on tightlyThis shows on my breedThey speak so very slowIt gets so hard to followSlowly...
- Cleo
Cleo, Cleo, won't you come around and play girlCleo, Cleo, won't you come around and stay girlYou can find the lines to say, if you trySomeone else has just confessedTo drinking up all your wine.Cleo, Cleo, there's a...
- Adelaide
I want to go home, I want to go homeI want to go back to AdelaideIt' s time for a change, don't want to be lateIt's probably night in AdelaideIn a day or two, I'll be there asking for youTo come back to Adelaide with...
- Amsterdam
She's back from AmsterdamAnd I think the journey did her wellHer face has lost it's touchThe tell tale signs of loneliness insideBut I love her stillAnd need her company still moreCome down, come down once moreAnd I...
- Big White Cloud
When I stand, my back to the seaA big white cloud, looking right down on meSound of sun, missing my eyesEverything's clear, everything's brightBig white cloud, big white cloudBig white cloud on meBig white cloud, big...
- Hello There
Hooked up on a fishing line,Looking for the break of dayI've never been here before anywayIts the line in my feet that's to blame.Settled down in the mudGiving everybody bloodIt's just not such a beautiful thing to...
- Gideon's Bible
Holding on, with both eyes, to things that don't existPeering through the cutting wrist, at grand old mother greedyRolling out the cotton ship, upon the carpet pillowThrottling children callously, a messy day with...
- Bring It On Up
Everybody's praying for the rains to comeAnd the snow is gonna fall, down on meLost up in the desert with a gun in my handAnd the locust gonna come to find me.Started long ago, in my paper cup saloonAnd the back-room...
- Charlemagne
The manager is waiting to be paidAlong with priests and deacons of his courtA quartermaster, quite a man, a mistress of the lineHas found a last cent avenue of painA Mardi Gras just passed this way a while agoMaking...
- Fairweather Friend
Words and music: Garland JeffreysBoard boy, board boy, rolling down the road Board boy, board boy, what have you been toldDo you wear your jeans of blue?Oh that way is paved with goldBoard boy, board boy what have you...
- Ghost Story
It was seven o'clock in the morningToo late to handle the dayAt home it was only two thirtyThe skin on my wrists turning greyStood up, wished us good luckHe changed his attitudes twiceThe box in the corner shivered in...
- Taking Your Life In Your Hands
The children are all leaving school todayMama said, don't worry, I'll be back one dayThe blue men in uniform smiled and waved goodbyeShe was hiding those tears in her eyesRoll up the history books, burn the chairsSet...
- If You Were Still Around
If you were still aroundI'd hold youI'd hold youI'd shake you by the kneesBlow hard in both earsIf you were still aroundYou could write like a pantherWhatever got into your veinsWhat kind of green bloodSwung you to...
- Rise, Sam And Rimsky Korsakov
Words: Sam ShepherdI knew a guitar player onceWho called the radio friendlyHe felt a kinship, not with the music so much as with the radio's voiceIts synthetic qualityIts voice as distinct from the voices coming...
- Thoughtless Kind
If you grow tired of the friends you makeIn case you mean to say something elseSay they were the best of times you ever hadThe best of times with the thoughtless kindWe dress conservatively at the best of timesPrefer...
- In The Library Of Force
We kill in the worldWe live in itWe live in itThen you smiled crawling as your houses were burning for GodBooks crawl down from the shelves Read themselves to you Read themselves at you In the Library of ForceIn the...
- I Keep A Close Watch
Never win and never loseThere's nothing much to chooseBetween the right and wrongNothing lost and nothing gainedStill things aren't quite the sameBetween you and meI keep a close watch on this heart of mineI keep a...
- Chinese Envoy
She was a princess, much lower than people thoughtA master of nothing a mistress of something she thoughtShe could talk about things that never mattered everFrom one person's miserable life after anotherShe could talk...
- Damn Life
Damn lifeDamn lifeWhat's it worth?Damn lifeGetting on withoutThis cityIt's just self-pityDamn lifeYou're just not worth itYou're just not worth the painThey'll eat you aliveThey'll drink the sweat from your browEating...
- Santies
She was so afraidSince her mother, white with time,Told herShe was a failureShe was so ashamedOf everything she saidAnd everything she didFor her mother, white with timeEverything around her motherWhite with timeAnd...
- Changes Made
When the winter days are goneNever find any summer breezes Until you've gone through springAnother way out of hereAnother way out of hereAnother wayAnother way out of hereCause I'm a lofty manI'm a hungry manGonna be,...
- Faces And Names
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleFaces and names, I wish they were the sameFaces and names only cause trouble for meFaces and namesIf we all looked the same and we all had the same nameI wouldn't be jealous of you...
- Work
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleAndy was a Catholic, the ethic ran through his bonesHe lived alone with his mother, collecting gossip and toysEvery Sunday when he went to ChurchHe'd kneel in his pew and say,...
- Starlight
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleStarlight open wide, starlight open up you doorThis is New York calling with movies on the streetMovies with real people, what you get is what you seeStarlight open wide, Andy's...
- Images
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleI think images are worth repeatingImages repeated from a paintingImages taken from a paintingFrom a photo worth re-seeingI love images worth repeating, project them upon the...
- Nobody But You
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleI really care a lot although I look like I do notSince I was shot there's nobody but youI know I look blase, party Andy's what the papers sayAt dinner I'm the one who pays - for a...
- Style It Takes
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleYou've got the money, I've got the timeYou want your freedom, make your freedom mine'Cause I've got the style it takesand money is all that it takesYou've got connexions and I've...
- Slip Away (A Warning)
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CalePeople said to lock the door and have an open house no moreThe said the Factory must change and slowly slip awayBut if I have to live in fear, where will I get my ideasWith all...
- Trouble With Classicists
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleThe trouble with a classicist he looks at a treeThat's all he sees, he paints a treeThe trouble with a classicist he looks at the skyHe doesn't ask why, he just paints a skyThe...
- Small Town
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleWhen you're growing up in a small townWhen you're growing up in a small townWhen you're growing up in a small townYou say no one famous ever came from hereWhen you're growing up in...
- Open House
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CalePleaseCome over to 81st street I'm in the apartment above the barYou know you can't miss it, it's across from the subwayand the tacky store with the Mylar scarvesMy skin's as pale...
- I Believe
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleValerie Solanis took the elevator got off at the 4th floorValerie Solanis took the elevator got off at the 4th floorShe pointed the gun at Andy saying you cannot control me...
- It Wasn't Me
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleIt wasn't me who shamed you, it's not fair to say thatYou wanted to work I gave you a chance at thatIt wasn't me who hurt you, that's more credit that I'm worthDon't threaten me...
- Forever Changed
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleTrain entering the city - I lost myself and never come backTook a trip around the world and never came backBlack silhouettes, crisscrossed tracks never came backForever changed,...
- Hello It's Me
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleAndy it's me, haven't seen you in a whileI wished I talked to you more when you were aliveI thought you were self-assured when you acted shyHello it's meI really miss you, I really...
- A Dream
Words and music: Lou Reed & John CaleIt was a very cold clear fall nightI had a terrible dreamBilly Name and Brigid were playing under my stair case on the second floor about two o'clock in the morningI woke up...
- Half Past France
I suppose I'm glad I'm on this trainAnd it's longSomewhere between Dunkirk an ParisMost people here are still asleepBut I'm awakeLooking out from here -- at half-past FranceThings are much different here than...
- Paris 1919
She makes me so unsure of myselfStanding there but never talking senseJust a visitor you seeSo much wanting to be seenShe'd open up the door and vaguely carry us awayIt's the customary thing to say or doTo a...
- Macbeth
Welcome home MacbethIt's been a long long timeAnd everyone knows you're hereIt's easy to see they careBanquo's been and goneHe's seen it all beforeHe took it and then he did walk itHe shook it and then he did rock...
- Child's Christmas In Wales
With mistletoe and candle greenTo Halloween we goTen murdered oranges bled on board shipLends comedy to shameThe cattle graze bold uprightlySeducing down the doorTo saddle swords and meeting placeWe have no place to...
- Antarctica Starts Here
The paranoid great movie queenSits idly fully armedThe powder and mascara thereA warning light for charmWe see her every movie nightThe strong against the weakThe lines come out and struggle withThe empty voice that...
- Andalucia
Andalucia when can I see youWhen it is snowing out againFarmer John wants youLouder and softer closer and dearerThen againNeeding you taking you keeping you leaving youIn a year and a day to be sureThat your face...
- Graham Greene
You're having tea with Graham GreeneIn a colored costume of your choiceAnd you'll be held in high esteemIf you're seen in betweenStiffly holding umbrellasCatching the fellows making the toastTo the civil servant...
- Hanky Panky Nohow
If the sacheting of gentlemenGives you grievance now and thenWhat's needed are some memories of planing lakesThose planing lakes will surely calm you downNothing frightens me moreThan religion at my doorI never answer...
- The Endless Plain Of Fortune
Old Taylor saidOld Taylor meant to cry -- oh myField Marshall meantField Marshall went away againWatch out below; the tidesLean heavily like wineWe are all innocent in spite of you and meThen Martha wentYes Martha...
- Fade Away Tomorrow
Well they say that every dog has his dayBut puppy love was never really my wayHear your voice - am I asleep or awake?Since you're goneLove that's here today - fade away tomorrowLove that's here today - fade away...
- Dying On The Vine
I've been chasing ghosts and I don't like itI wish someone would show me where to draw the lineI'd lay down my sword if you would take itAnd tell everyone back home I'm doing fineI was with you down in AcapulcoTrading...
- Satellite Walk
Who's that in the big Japanese car?Dealing sushi from a German barWell no one knows but he won't get farI took my tomahawk for a satellite walkI took my tomahawk for a satellite walkWho put the fishes in the deep blue...
- The Sleeper
Your mailbox is always emptyAnd your landlord always complainsAnd you try to forget your pastBut it's just adding to your painAnd it's time for one more cigaretteYes, I slept on your satin pillowsThey felt like a...
- Song Of The Valley
I roamed the world for love and gloryFull-time ambassador of mirthI never thought that I'd be sorryTo squander most of my true worthThe sun beats down on the valleyThe waves crash on the shoreI was a soldier of the...
- Black Rose
Everybody melting but the heat just won't affect yaBacklot Casanovas and Black Russian defectorsAre here to take your picture awayI know you don't have space left on your windowsillBlack rose - long thornWhite rose -...
- Everytime The Dogs Bark
If you wanna be the heart of midnightYou've gotta be either cynical or deadAll those you hold in estimationYou can no longer count among your friendsYour friends look to surprise youAs friends they always willSo hold...
- Vigilante Lover
Oh you think you got a gypsy smileBut it won't get you out of trouble this timeAll you ever had is the memoryAnd the rose that you keep for companyAnyone could have cracked the codeAnybody could have cracked that...
- Chinese Takaway (Hong Kong 1997)
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- The Soul Of Carmen Miranda
Since the soul of Carmen Miranda had captured the mind of manDismissed with her generation for the price of a can-canConsigned to the sideshows of history, with the patronized orphans of filmShe seeded the bait and...
- There Was A Saviour
Words: Dylan ThomasThere was a saviourRarer than radium,Commoner than water, crueler than truth;Children kept from the sunAssembled at his tongueTo hear the golden note turn in a groove,Prisoners of wishes locked...
- On A Wedding Anniversary
Words: Dylan ThomasThe sky is torn acrossThis ragged anniversary of twoWho moved for three years in tuneDown the long walks of their vows.Now their love lies a lossAnd Love and his patients roar on a chain;From every...
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Words: Dylan ThomasDo not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had...
- Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Words: Dylan ThomasLie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the woundIn the throat, burning and turning. All night afloatOn the silent sea we have heard the soundThat came from the wound wrapped in the salt...
- Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
Standing waiting for a man to showWide eyed one eye fixed on the doorThis waiting's killing me, it's wearing me downDay in day out, my feet are burning holes in the groundDarkness warmer than a bedroom floorWant...
- You Know More Than I Know
But us, like other angry whoresDiscuss what steps were made beforeYou don't need them anymoreYou know more than I knowYou know more than I knowYou know more than I knowInstead, we read the morning newsIn bed - what...
- Emily
Oh Emily, I'd love to beDown by the sea with youHaving tea with youWalking hand in handOn the shifting sandsMaybe we'll love againMaybe we'll love againSoon the time will comeWhen we must sayGoodbye my dear dear...
- Momamma Scuba
Momamma ScubaScuba woman down me slowScuba woman down me slowLove youSkin turn to slimeHold me slow and dub me downTake me with you, dub me downLove youSkin dub me downScuba mama sink me downLove your sinking, hold me...
- Ship Of Fools
The Ship of Fools is coming inTake me off I've got to eatSame old stories same old thingLetting out and pulling inMister, there's a caravan parked out backRestless hoping for a Christian riderThe black book, a...
- Looking For My Mind
Running fasterLooking for my mindThe shades upon the wallAre signs of our timeI am wasting all my powerand I don't think aboutI spread my wings andI fly awayAnd I cross the borderlineCrimson peonysFlower of my...
- Buffalo Ballet
When Abilene was young and***And thunder storms filled up the dayThe cattle roamed outside the townSleeping in the midday sunSleeping in the midday sunSleeping in the midday sunSleeping in the midday sunThen tracks...
- Gun
Me and my partner we work on the runThe quick try to get quickerAnd the creepers get hungNow it's you that got wasted tonight on the jobOne lost his liquorAnd the other lost his handTen sticky thumb prints on the door...
- Riverbank
All along the riverbank nobody seems to knowThey heard nothing, saw even less of the hunger in their soulsSafety first or safety last I wish I could have helpedThose poor unfortunate widows standing waiting for their...
- Magic & Lies
Look at that old man with the broken shoesHe could tell you stories he knows how to loseLook at that sweet thing packaged so tightShe does things her own way, knows the wrong from rightBut there's one big difference...
- Fighter Pilot
Fighter pilot you're losing the war againWhen will you ever learnFighter pilot you're making a big mistake and setting a bad exampleFighter pilot tell me about your life and are the children wellFighter pilot what do...
- Dead Or Alive
Sooner or later she said she'd be my friendHonest and faithful till the very endWell enough of that I'm tired of hearing it anywayShe turns and smiles says goodbye in her inimical wayHappy to see her in the back of a...
- Wilson Joliet
She was so afraid of everything she saidSince her mother told her why once upon a timeThere was no rhymeBefore the clock slammed another doorOf the weary hours we were facing a second hand shylockShylocked in, in on...
- Strange Times In Casablanca
Strange times in Casablanca when people pull down their shadesAnd its easy enough for us to look at each other and wonder whyWe were to blameBlame comes remorselessly transfixedLike the sound of slamming doorsAnd...
- Hallelujah
I've heard there was a secret chordthat David played, and it pleased the Lord.But you don't really care for music, do you?It goes like this:The fourth, the fifth.The minor fall, the major lift.The baffled king...
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