Magic and Loss

Lou Reed

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Magic and Loss

1992 |

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Listado de canciones del álbum Magic and Loss

Dorita (The Spirit) 1:07
What's Good (The Thesis) 3:22
Músicos invitados: Michael Blair (Backing Vocals), Roger Moutenot (Backing Vocals)
Power And Glory (The Situation)Ver letra 4:23

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I was visited by The Power and The Glory

I was visited by a majestic hymn

Great bolts of lightning lighting up the sky

Electricity flowing through my veins

I was captured by a larger moment

I was seized by divinity's hot breath

Gorged like a lion on experience

Powerful from life

I wanted all of it

Not just some of it

All of it

I saw a man turn into a bird

I saw a bird turn into a tiger

I saw a man hang from a cliff by the tips of his toes

In the jungles of the Amazon

I saw a man put a red hot needle through his eye

Turn into a crow and fly through the trees

Swallow hot coals and breathe out flames

And I wanted this to happen to me

I wanted all of it

All of it, all of it

Not just some of it

All of it

We saw the moon vanish into his pocket

We saw the stars disappear from sight

We saw him walk across water into the sun

While bathed in eternal light

We spewed out questions waiting for answers

Creating legends, religions and myths

Books, stories, movies and plays

All trying to explain this

I want all of it

All of it, all of it

Not just some of it

I saw a great man turn into a little child

The cancer reduced him to dust

His voice growing weak as he fought for his life

With a bravery few men know

I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs

Trying to stop the cancerous spread

And it made me think of Leda and The Swan

And gold being made from lead

The same power that burned Hiroshima

Causing three legged babies and death

Shrunk to the size of a nickel

To help him regain his breath

And I was struck by The Power and The Glory

I was visited by a majestic Him

Great bolts of lightning lighting up the sky

As the radiation flowed through him

I wanted all of it

Not just some of it

All of it

All of it, all of it, all of it
Músicos invitados: Jimmy Scott (Backing Vocals)
Magician (Internally)Ver letra 6:23

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Magician Magician, take me upon your wings

And gently roll the clouds away

I'm sorry, so sorry, I have no incantations

Only words to help sweep me away

I want some magic to sweep me away

I want some magic to sweep me away

I want to count to five

Turn around and find myself gone

Fly me through the storm and wake up in the calm

Release me from the body

From this bulk that moves beside me

Let me leave this body far away

I'm sick of looking at me

I hate this painful body

That disease has slowly worm away

Magician, take my spirit

Inside I'm young and vital

Inside I'm alive, please take me away

So many things to do, it's too early

For my life to be ending

For this body to simply rot away

I want some magic to keep me alive

I want a miracle, I don't want to die

I'm afraid that if I go to sleep I'll never wake

I'll no longer exist

I'll close my eyes and disappear and float into the mist

Somebody please hear me

My hand can't hold a cup of coffee

My fingers are weak, things just fall away

Inside I'm young and pretty

Too many things unfinished

My very breath taken away

Doctor you're no magician

And I am no believer

I need more than faith can give me now

I want to believe in miracles

Not just belief in numbers

I need some magic to take me away

I want some magic to sweep me away

I want some magic to sweep me away

Visit on this starlit night

Replace the stars, the moon, the light, the sun's gone

Fly me through this storm and wake up in the calm

I fly right through this storm

And I wake up in the calm
Sword Of Damocles (Externally)Ver letra 3:42

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I see The Sword of Damocles is right above your head

They're trying a new treatment to get you out of bed

But radiation kills both bad and good, it can not differentiate

So to cure you they must kill you

The Sword of Damocles hangs above your head

Now I have seen lots of peoples die from car crashes or drugs

Last night on 33rd st. I saw a kid get hit by a bus

But this drawn out torture over which part of you lives is very hard to take

To cure you they must kill you

The Sword of Damocles above your head

That mix of morphine and dexedrine, we use it on the street

It kills the pain and keeps you up, your very soul to keep

But this guessing game has its own rules, the good don't always win

And might makes right

The Sword of Damocles is hanging above your head

It seems everything's done that must be done

From over here though things don't seem fair

But there are things that we can't know

Maybe there's something over there

Some other world that we don't know about

I know you hate that mystic shit

It's just another way of seeing

The Sword of Damocles above your head
Goodby Mass (In A Chapel Bodily Termination)Ver letra 4:25

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Sitting on a hard chair try to sit straight

Sitting on a hard chair this moment won't wait

Listening to the speakers, they're talking about you

Look at all the people, all the people you knew

Sitting with my back straight it becomes hard to hear

Some people are crying, it becomes hard to hear

I don't think you'd have liked it, you would have made a joke

You would have made it easier, you'd say "tomorrow I'm smoke"

Sitting on a hard chair how far we have come

Trying hard to listen to your friends who have come

Some of them are famous and some are just like me

Trying hard to listen trying hard to see

Sitting in a hard chair it's over time to stand

Some people are crying, I turn to grab your hand

It's your daughter saying thank you

You, you would have made a joke

"Isn't this something," you'd say, "tomorrow I'm smoke"

Sitting in a hard chair it's over time to stand

Some people are crying, I turn to grab your hand

It's your daughter saying thank you

You, you would have made a joke

"Isn't this something," you'd say, "tomorrow I'm smoke"
Cremation (Ashes To Ashes)Ver letra 2:54

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Well the coal black sea waits for me, me, me

The coal black sea waits forever

The waves hit the shore crying more, more, more

But the coal black sea waits forever

The tornados come, up the coast they run

Hurricanes rip the sky forever

Through the weathers change, the sea remains the same

The coal black sea waits forever

There are ashes spilt through collective guilt

People rest at sea forever

Since they burnt you up, collect you in a cup

For you the coal black sea has no terror

Will your ashes float like some foreign boat

Or will they sink absorbed forever?

Will the Atlantic Coast have its final boast?

Nothing else contained you ever

Now the coal black sea waits for me, me, me

The coal black sea waits forever

When I leave this joint at some further point

The same coal black sea will it be waiting
Dreamin' (Escape) 5:09
No Chance (Regret)Ver letra 3:15

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It must be nice to be steady, it must be nice to be firm

it must be nice never to move off the mark

It must be nice to be dependable and never let anyone down

it must be great to be all the things you're not

It must be great to be all the things that I'm not

I see you in the hospital your humor is intact

I'm embarrassed by the strength I seem to lack

If I was in your shoes, so strange that I am not

I'd fold up in a minute and a half

I'd fold up in a minute and a half

And I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

No I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

It must be nice to be normal, it must be nice to be cold

It must be nice not to have to go, oh, up or down

But me I'm all emotional, no matter how I try

You're gone and I'm still here alive

You're gone and I'm still alive

And I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

No, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

There are things we say we wish we knew and in fact we never do

But I'd wish I'd known that you were going to die

Then I wouldn't feel so stupid, such a fool that I didn't call

And I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

No there's no logic to this, who's picked to stay or go

If you think too hard it only makes you mad

But your optimism made me think you really had it beat

So I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

No, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

I didn't get a chance to say goodbye
Warrior King (Revenge)Ver letra 4:27

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I wish I was the warrior king in every language that I speak

Lord over all that I survey and all that I see I keep

Power omnipresent, undiminished uncontrolled

With a mass of violent fury at the center of my soul

I wish I was a warrior king, inscrutable benign

With a faceless charging power always at my command

Footsteps so heavy that the world shakes, my rage instilling fear, ah, ha

Yet cautious firm but fair and good, the perfect warrior king

I wish I installed angels in every subject's house

Agents of my goodness no one would be without

A steak on every plate, a car for every house

And if you ever crossed me, I'd have your eyes put out

You don't exist without me, without me you don't exist

And if logic won't convinced you then there's always this

I'm bigger, smarter, stronger, tough; yet sensitive and kind

And though I could crush you like a bug, it would never cross my mind

It wouldn't cross my mind to break your neck or rip out your vicious tongue

It wouldn't cross my mind to snap your leg like a twig or squash you like some slug

You are a violent messenger and I'm not above your taunts

And if you hit me, you know I'll kill you, because I'm the warrior king
Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray 5:29
Gassed and Stoked 4:18
Power And Glory Part II (Magic - Transformation) 2:57
Magic And Loss (The Summation)Ver letra 6:39

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When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble

You pass through a maze of self doubt

When you pass through humble, the lights can blind you

Some people never figure that out

You pass through arrogance, you pass through hurt

You pass through an ever present past

And it's best not to wait for luck to save you

Pass through the fire to the light

Pass through the fire to the light

Pass through the fire to the light

It's best not to wait for luck to save you

Pass through the fire to the light

As you pass through the fire, your right hand waving

There are things you have to throw out

That caustic dread inside your head will never help you out

You have to be very strong 'cause you'll start from zero

over and over again

And as the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire

Lying straight ahead

Lying straight ahead

Lying straight ahead

As the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire

Lying straight ahead

They say no one person can do it all

But you want to in your head

But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce

So what is left instead

You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you

You have to start at the beginning again

And just this moment

This wonderful fire started up again

When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly

When you pass through, I'm better than you all

When you pass through anger and self deprecation

And have the strength to acknowledge it all

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic

That let you survive your own war

You find that that fire is passion

And there's a door up ahead, not a wall

As you pass through fire, as you pass through fire

Trying to remember its name

When you pass through fire licking at your lips

You cannot remain the same

And if the building's burning, move towards that door

But don't put the flames out

There's a bit of magic in everything

And then some loss to even things out

Some loss to even things out

Some loss to even things out

There's a bit of magic in everything

And then some loss to even things out