The Velvet Underground was an American rock Rock music band formed in New York City. First active from 1965 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although never commercially successful while together, the band is often cited by many critics as one of the most important and influential groups of the 1960s.
The Velvet Underground were managed by Andy Warhol and were... [read more] - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
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- Chelsea Girls
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- I'm Waiting For The Man
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- I'll Be Your Mirror
- Femme Fatale
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- Run Run Run
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- Ocean
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- Foggy Notion
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- Andy's Chest
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- I'm Sticking With You
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- Stephanie Says
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- Temptation Inside Your Heart
Somebody shut the doorI know where temptation liesInside of you heartYou can talk during thisI know where the evil liesInside of your heartWell get out of here If you're gonna try to make it rightYou're surely gonna...
- One Of This Days
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- She's My Best Friend
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- All Tomorrow's Parties
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- European Son
You killed your European sonYou spit on those under twenty-oneBut now your blue car's goneYou better say so longHey hey, bye bye byeYou made your wallpapers greenYou want to make love to the sceneYour European son is...
- I Heard Her Call My Name
Ever since I was on cripples Monday,I've got my eyeballs on my knees.I rapped for hours with mad Mary Williams,she said she never understood a word from mebecause, I know that she cares about me, I heard her call my...
- Here She Comes Now
Here she ever comes now nowShe ever comes now nowShe ever comes nowHere she ever comes now nowShe ever comes now nowShe ever comes nowOh Oh, it look so goodShe's made out of woodJust look and see
- Sister Ray
Doug and Sally insideThey cookin' for the Down PipeWho's staring at Miss RayonWho's busy licking off her Pig PenI'm searching for my mainlineI said I couldn't hit it sidewaysI said I couldn't hit it sidewaysAw just...
- White Light / White Heat
White light goin' messin' up my mind. Don't you know it's gonna make me go blind. White heat, it trickles way down to my toes.Have mercy white light have it goodness knows.White light goin' messin' up my brain. White...
- Pale Blue Eyes
Sometimes I feel so happy,Sometimes I feel so sad.Sometimes I feel so happy,But mostly you just make me mad.Baby, you just make me mad.Linger on, your pale blue eyes.Linger on, your pale blue eyes.Thought of you as my...
- The Murder Mystery
Left Voice (Morrison, Tucker) candy screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring memories, both lovely and guiltfree, lurid and lovely with twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laghter, laconic...
- I'm Set Free
I've been set free and I've been boundTo the memories of yesterday's cloudsI've been set free and I've been boundAnd now I'm set freeI'm set freeI'm set free to find a new illusionI've been blinded butYou I can...
- After Hours
one, two, threeIf you close the doorthe night could last foreverLeave the sunshine outand say hello to neverAll the people are dancingand they're having such funI wish it could happen to meBut if you close the doorI'd...
- That's The Story Of My Life
That's the story of my lifeThat's the difference between wrong and rightBut Billy said, both those words are deadThat's the story of my life
- Candy Says
Candy says I've come to hate my bodyand all that it requires in this worldCandy says I'd like to know completelywhat others so discretely talk aboutI'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulderI'm gonna watch...
- Some Kinda Love
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- Waiting For The Man
I'm waiting for my manTwenty-six dollars in my handUp to Lexington, 125Feel sick and dirty, more dead than aliveI'm waiting for my manHey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?...
- Heroin
I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on...
- Sunday Morning
Sunday morning, praise the dawningIt's just a restless feeling by my sideEarly dawning, Sunday morningIt's just the wasted years so close behindWatch out, the world's behind youThere's always someone around you who...
- Venus In Furs
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she...
- Black Angel's Death Song
The myriad choices of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate For him to chooseWhat had he to loseNot a ghost bloodied countryAll covered with sleepWhere the black angel did weep Not an old city street in the east...
- It Was A Pleasure Then
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- Guess I'm Falling In Love
I got fever in my pocketYou know I gotta moveHey babe, I guess I'm falling in loveI got fever in my pocketDown to my shoesOh babe, I guess I'm falling in loveI got in my pocket, hey babeEverything that I can haveI've...
- New Age
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- Who Loves The Sun
Who loves the sunWho cares that it makes plants growWho cares what it doesSince you broke my heartWho loves the windWho cares that it makes breezesWho cares what it doesSince you broke my heartPa Pa Pa PaWho loves the...
- Head Held High
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- Cool It Down
Somebody took the papersAnd somebody's got the keyAnd somebody nailed the door shutThat says hey what you think that you seeBut me l'm down around the cornerYou know I'm lookin' for Miss Linda LeeBecause she's got the...
- Lonesome Cowboy Bill
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- Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Say a word for Jimmy BrownHe ain't got nothing at allNot a shirt right of his backHe ain't got nothing at allAnd say a word for Ginger BrownWalks with his head down to the groundTook the shoes right of his feetTo poor...
- Train Round The Bend
Train round the bendTakin me away from my countryI'm sick of the treesTake me to the cityTrain comin' round the bendOh train comin' round the bendBeen in the country Oh much too longTrying to be a farmerBut nothing...
- Beginning To See The Light
Well I'm beginning to see the light.Well I'm beginning to see the light.Some people work very hard,but still they never get it right.Well I'm beginning to see the light.Well I'm beginning to see the light.Now I'm...
- I CanÂ’t Stand It
Before being a manLivin' in a garbage pailMy landlady call me upShe tried to hit me with a mopI can't stand it anymore moreI can't stand it anymore moreI can't stand it anymore moreBut if Shelly she would just come...
- What Goes On
What goes on in your mind?I think that I am falling down.What goes on in your mind?I think that I am upside down.Lady, be good, and do what you should,you know it'll work allright.Lady, be good, do what you should,...
- Rock & Roll
Jenny said when she was just five years oldThere was nothing happening at allEvery time she puts on a radioThere was a nothin' goin' down at all, not at allThen one fine mornin' she puts on a New York stationYou know,...
- Heroine
(reed)I donÂ’t know just where IÂ’m goingBut IÂ’m gonna try for the kingdom, if I canÂ’cause it makes me feel like IÂ’m a manWhen I put a spike into my veinAnd IÂ’ll tell ya, things arenÂ’t quite the sameWhen IÂ’m...
- Take A Walk On The Wild Side
"Take a walk on the wild side" Holly came from Miami, FLAHitch-hiked her way across the USAPlucked her eyebrows on the wayShaved her legs and then he was a sheShe says, Hey babeTake a walk on the wild sideShe said,...
- Fiction
How do you sleep at night, father,With what you've done to me?How do you make it through the day,Knowing your dead in me?City lights give me the answers.(Some day, some way.)Broken hearted, filled with anger.(Father,...
- Sweet Jane
Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand,Jack is in his corset, and Jane is in her vest, and, me,I'm in a rock'n'roll band.Ridin' in a Stutz-Bearcat, JimY'know, those were different times!Oh, all the poets, they...
- I Found A Reason
Ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba I found a reason to keep livin' Oh, and the reason dear is you I found a reason to keep singin' Wow-woh, and the reason dear is you...
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