Álbum The Raven de Lou Reed - Canciones

The Raven

2003 |

Estilo(s) | Alternative Rock,Punk,Avantgarde,Experimental

Sello | Sire

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La discografía de Lou Reed se aventura en el terreno del spoken word y la experimentación con "The Raven", un álbum que, de inmediato, se percibe como una obra ambiciosa y desafiante. Además, este disco reinterpreta la obra de Edgar Allan Poe a través de la visión única de Lou Reed, fusionando la literatura con el rock y la música orquestal. Por consiguiente, el álbum se siente como una experiencia teatral, una inmersión en la oscuridad poética.

Las composiciones son complejas y atmosféricas, con narraciones recitadas que se entrelazan con la música, creando un tapiz sonoro inmersivo. Así pues, las colaboraciones con artistas como David Bowie, Laurie Anderson o Steve Buscemi añaden una riqueza vocal y dramática al proyecto. Por otra parte, la producción es densa y elaborada, logrando un sonido que es a la vez gótico y experimental, realzando el misterio de las letras. En consecuencia, el álbum suena como una ópera rock, una obra para paladares exigentes.

"The Raven" consolidó la reputación de Lou Reed como un artista que no teme explorar nuevos formatos y que busca constantemente los límites de su arte. Asimismo, su audacia y su compromiso con la experimentación son evidentes en cada pista, demostrando su genio creativo. Por lo tanto, para los amantes de la literatura, la música alternativa y las propuestas arriesgadas, este disco es una adquisición imprescindible. En definitiva, es una prueba irrefutable de que la visión de Lou Reed era ilimitada y siempre sorprendente.

Listado de canciones del álbum The Raven

Overture 1:05
Edgar Allan PoeVer letra 3:20

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letra de Edgar Allan Poe
These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

He'll tell you tales of horror

Then he'll play with your mind

If you haven't heard of him

You must be deaf or blind

These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

He'll tell you about Usher

Whose house burned in his mind

His love for his dear sister

Her death would drive him wild

The murder of a stranger

The murder of a friend

The callings from the pits of hell

That never seem to end

These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

The diabolic image of the city and the sea

The chaos and the carnage that reside deep within me

Decapitations, poisonings, hellish not a bore

You won't need 3D glasses to pass beyond this door

Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

No Nosferatu Vincent Price or naked women here

A mind unfurled, a mind unbent is all we have here

Truth, fried orangutans flutter to the stage

Leave your expectations home

And listen to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe

We give you the soliloquy the raven at the door

Flaming pits the moving walls no equilibrium

No ballast, no bombast

The unvarnished truth we've got

Mind swoons guilty

Cooking ravings in a pot

Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

Edgar Allan Poe

Not exactly the boy next door

Tell-tale heart a rotting cask

A valley of unrest

A conqueror worm devouring souls

Keep the best for last

Rings for Annie Lee

As Poe's buried alive

Regretting his beloved's death in

All her many guises-a
Call On MeVer letra 2:07

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letra de Call On Me
Caught in the crossbow of ideas and journeys

sit here reliving the other self's mournings

Caught in the crossbow of ideas and dawnings

stand I

Oh oh oh oh

Reliving the past of the maddening impulse

violent upheaval, the pure driven instinct

The pure driven murder, the attraction of daring

stand I

Why didn't you call on me

why didn't you call on me

Why didn't you call on me

why didn't you call

[Rowena:]

A wild being from birth

my spirit spurns control

wondering the wide earth

searching for my soul

Dimly peering

I would surely find

what could there be more purely bright

in truth's day-star

Ooohhh

Why didn't you call on me

why didn't you call, call on me

Why didn't you call on me

why didn't you call

Why didn't you call on me

why didn't you call on me

Why didn't you call on me

why didn't you call.
Músicos invitados: Friedrich Paravicini (Cello), Antoine Silverman (Violin), Marti Sweet (Violin), Laurie Anderson (Vocals)
The Valley of Unrest 2:26
Músicos invitados: Lou Reed (Electronics), Elizabeth Ashley (Voice)
A Thousand Departed Friends 4:58
Músicos invitados: Paul Shapiro (Baritone Saxophone)
ChangeVer letra 2:18

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letra de Change
The only thing constantly changing is change

And change is always for the worse

The worm on the hook always eaten by a fish

The fish by bird man or worse

A spot on the lung, a spot on your heart

An aneurism of the soul

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it comes equipped with a curse

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always for the worse

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always for the worse

The only thing constantly changing is change

The living only become dead

Your hair falling out, your liver swelled up

Your teeth rot your gums and your chin

Your ass starts to sag, your balls shrivel up

Your cock swallowed up in their sack

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always change on your back

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always for the worse

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always for the worse, baby

The only thing constantly changing is change

Ashes to ashes to dusk

The deer and the rabbit, the musk of your hole

Filled up with myriad dread, ooohhh

The dread of the living, the dread of the living

The frightening pulse of the night, ah

The only thing constantly changing is change

It's changes that will kill us with fright

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always for the worse

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it's always for the worse

The only thing constantly changing is change

The only thing constantly changing is change

The only thing constantly changing is change

And it comes equipped with my curse
The BedVer letra 3:32

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letra de The Bed
This is the place where she lay her head

when she went to bed at night

And this is the place our children were conceived

candles lit the room brightly at night

And this is the place where she cut her wrists

that odd and fateful night

And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

This is the place where we used to live

I paid for it with love and blood

And these are the boxes that she kept on the shelf

Filled with her poetry and stuff

And this is the room where she took the razor

and cut her wrists that strange and fateful night

And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

I never would have started if I'd known

that it'd end this way

But funny thing, I'm not at all sad

that it stopped this way

This is the place where she lay her head

when she went to bed at night

And this is the place our children were conceived

candles lit the room brightly at night

And this is the place where she cut her wrists

That odd and fateful night

And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling
Perfect DayVer letra 3:27

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letra de Perfect Day
Just a perfect day

Drink sangria in the park

And then later, when it gets dark

We go home

Just a perfect day

Feed animals in the zoo

Then later a movie, too

And then home

Oh, it's such a perfect day

I'm glad I spent it with you

Oh, such a perfect day

You just keep me hanging on

You just keep me hanging on

Just a perfect day

Problems all left alone

Weekenders on our own

It's such fun

Just a perfect day

You made me forget myself

I thought I was someone else

Someone good

Oh, it's such a perfect day

I'm glad I spent it with you

Oh, such a perfect day

You just keep me hanging on

You just keep me hanging on

You're going to reap just what you sow

You're going to reap just what you sow

You're going to reap just what you sow

You're going to reap just what you sow
Músicos invitados: Antony (3) (Vocals)
The Raven 6:30
Músicos invitados: Friedrich Paravicini (Cello), Frank Wulff (Oboe), Willem Dafoe (Voice)
BalloonVer letra 1:01

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letra de Balloon
I'm a little balloon and I get puffed up

squeeze me and bend me it's never enough

Put your lips around me, blow me up

but if you prick me I will pop

I'm a little balloon full and firm

here is my aft and here is my stern

Here's my lips and here's my hose

put me down or I will burst

If you prick me I will burst
Músicos invitados: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Vocals)
Broadway SongVer letra 3:12

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letra de Broadway Song
Like to thank all you people for showing up tonight

Sorry about the weather

Let's have a big hand for my long time accompianist

Manfred Gooseberry

Hey Goose

Take a bow, relax

Be comfortable

Have a cocktail on the Poo Poo Lounge

And let us entertain you

I'd like to sing you a Broadway song

I hope that you'll all sing along

A little dancing and some sentiment to put your mind at ease

I'd like to play you something low and sexy

look at our dancers they're so young and pretty, hi Olga

And when we start to groove you can hear the saxophones blow

Ah, show business is just a wonderful thing

All I want is to get down on my knees and sing for you

And let the saxophones blow

blow baby blow

I'd like to sing you a Broadway song

I hope that you'll all sing along

A little dancing and some sentiment to put your mind at ease

I wanna bring a tear to your eye, oh

good old Poe don't he make you cry

Ain't it great the way he writes about the mysteries of life

Ah, show business is just a wonderful thing

All I want is to get down on my knees and sing for you

And let the saxophones blow

Blow baby blow

Ah, show business is just a wonderful thing

All I want is to get down on my knees and sing for you

And let the saxophones blow

blow baby blow baby blow baby blow

Go Goose go
Músicos invitados: Paul Shapiro (Alto Saxophone), Art Baron (Trombone), Steve Buscemi (Vocals)
Blind RageVer letra 3:25

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letra de Blind Rage
Who's that peeping through my door

Sneaking up and down the hall

I can't stand it anymore

I can't stand it anymore

Who's that peeping through my door

Sneaking up and down the hall

I can't stand it anymore

I can't stand it anymore

Blind rage

I'm in a blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

Who's that creeping in my room

Blocking out the stars and moon

I fear you will attack me soon

Who goes there

Who's that creeping in my room

Blocking out the stars and moon

I fear you will attack me soon

Who goes there

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

I'm in a blind rage

Blind rage

You're making me scared

Blind rage

Make me scared

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage

Blind rage
Burning EmbersVer letra 3:22

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letra de Burning Embers
Fly through the glass of a window pane

Fall through the sky feeling the rain

Walk on broken glass your tell-tale heart

Look through the bars of a dirty jail cell

Soar to heaven dive to hell

Listen to your tell-tale heart

Setting fires in the ghost twilight

We see you dress we bolt with fright

You see an apparition disappear

Jump to the table, jump up the stairs

Stand on the rooftop, looking out through the air

Walk on broken glass your tell-tale heart

Lenore, am I dreaming

How can death keep us apart, mmmm..

Lenore, I see you burning

And I'd walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Heart

Heart

Heart

Heart

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Your tell-tale heart

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers

Walk on burning embers your tell-tale heart
Músicos invitados: Antoine Silverman (Violin)
Vanishing ActVer letra 5:23

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letra de Vanishing Act
It must be nice to disappear

To have a vanishing act

To always be looking forward

And never looking back

How nice it is to disappear

Float into a mist

With a young lady on your arm

Looking for a kiss

It might be nice to disappear

To have a vanishing act

To always be looking forward

Never look over your back

It must be nice to disappear

Float into a mist

With a young lady on your arm

Looking for a kiss

It must be nice to disappear

To have a vanishing act

To always be moving forward

And never looking back

How nice it is to disappear

Float into a mist

With a young lady on your arm

Looking for a kiss

Looking for a kiss

Float into a mist
Guilty 4:54
Músicos invitados: Ornette Coleman (Alto Saxophone), Fernando Saunders (Guitar), Paul Shapiro (Soprano Saxophone)
I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)Ver letra 6:58

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letra de I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes

I have felt the full knowledge

And force of their expression

And yet been unable to possess it

And have felt it leave me

As so many other things have left

The letter half-read

The bottle half-drunk

Finding

Finding in the commonest objects of the universe

A circle of analogies

Of metaphors

Ooohhh

For that expression

Which has been willfully

withheld from me

The access to the inner soul denied

I wanna know, ooohhh

I wanna know

I wanna know, oh

I wanna know

In consideration

In consideration of the faculties and impulses

Of the human soul

Of the human soul

In consideration

Of our arrogance

Of our arrogance

Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason

We have all overlooked the propensity

We saw no need for it

The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness

Perverseness

Through its promptings we act without

Comprehensible object

We act for the reason we should not

We act for the reason we should not

For certain minds this is absolutely irre-, irre-

irresistible

irresistible

The conviction of the wrong

Or impolicy of an action

Is often the unconquerable force

The unconquerable force

It is a primitive impulse

It is a primitive impulse

Primitive impulse

The overwhelming tendency

The overwhelming tendency to do

Wrong for the wrong's sake

To do wrong for the wrong's sake

We persist in acts

Because we feel that we

should not persist in them

Because we feel we, feel we

should not persist, per-, persist in them, ah

Ooohhh

So I wanna know

I wanna know

I wanna know

I wanna know

I wanna, I wanna know

I wanna, I

Ooohhh, we persist in action

We persist in action

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong

Ooohhh

Wrong, wrong

Oh we persist in action

Ah yeah yeah

When you know that it's wrong
Músicos invitados: The Blind Boys Of Alabama (Backing Vocals), Friedrich Paravicini (Organ [Hammond])
Science of the MindVer letra 1:36

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letra de Science of the Mind
In the science of the mind

there is no forgiving

Paralyzed I lay here sleeping

quiet as a little child

Heart starts beating, blood rushing pounding

moving quiet as a little lamb

In the science of the mind

limbs are bound devoid of movement

The injuries we do in kind

are visited upon us often

In the science of the mind

trying hard to move a shadow

Don't bury me I'm still alive

the science of the mind unyielding

The science of the mind unyielding

the science of the mind unyielding
Hop FrogVer letra 1:46

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letra de Hop Frog
Well they call me a juicy hop-frog

you can see me in any wood bog

don't you know that they call me the hop-frog

hopping frog

I'm a hop-frog

a hop-frog

they call me the hop-frog

hop, hop-frog

They call me the hop-frog

see me in any wood bog

don't you know that call me a hop-frog

hop-frog

They call me the hop-frog

see me in a wood bog

they're calling me a hop-frog

hop-frog

You can see me in a ballroom

you can see me in a bedroom

you can see me in the woods

hop, hop-frog

They call me the hop-frog

they call you the hop-frog

well they call you the hop-frog

hop, hop-frog

Frog
Músicos invitados: David Bowie (Vocals)
Tripitena's Speech 2:19
Músicos invitados: Amanda Plummer (Voice)
Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song) 4:31
Arreglos: Lou Reed, Ric Wake, Russ DeSalvoMezclas: Thomas R. YezziMúsicos invitados: Rob Mathes (Arranged By [Strings]), Patrick Carroll (Bass), Patrick Carroll (Drum Programming), Shelly Woodworth (English Horn), Russ DeSalvo (Guitar), Russ DeSalvo (Keyboards), Bob Cadway (Recorded By), Rob Eaton (Recorded By [Strings]), Thomas R. Yezzi (Recorded By)
Guardian AngelVer letra 6:51

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letra de Guardian Angel
I have a guardian angel

keep him in my head

When I'm afraid and alone

I call him to my bed

I have a guardian angel

who keeps bad things from me

The only way to ruin it would be for me

not to trust me

The only way to ruin it would be for me

not to trust me

I have a guardian angel

who's often saved my life

Through malevolent storms and crystal drums

the angel on my right

Has lifted me up and set me down

always showing me what's right

And if my instinct proved me wrong

the angel set it right

And if my instinct proved me wrong

the angel set it right

Have a guardian angel

I keep him in my head

And when I'm having nightmares

he shows me dreams instead

I have a ring, I have a dress

I have an empty shell

By the books below tea cups

I've kept a kind of hell

By the books below tea cups

I've kept a kind of hell

Panic and anxiety

so often in my head

But I had a guardian angel

who took care of me instead

The champagne cork the nightlight owl

a raven and a duck

The seed of pining parents

and your despairing love

The seed of pining parents

and your despairing love

Love and luck both have charmed lives

can change all things about

I had a guardian angel

that's what this is all about

I have a guardian angel

I keep him in my head

When I'm alone and become afraid

he saved my life instead

When I'm alone and become afraid

he saved my life instead

Guardian angel

guardian angel

Guardian angel

guardian angel

Guardian angel
Músicos invitados: Fernando Saunders (Backing Vocals), Tony Smith (2) (Backing Vocals), Steven Bernstein (Flugelhorn)