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Pass Thru Fire
Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics | Lou Reed
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Containing a body of work that spans more than three decades, Pass Thru Fire is a stunning collection of the lyrics of an American original. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde-Lou Reed's work has maintained an undeniable vividness and raw beauty, fueled by precise character studies and rendered with an admirable shot of moral ambiguity. Beginning with his formative days in the Velvet Underground and continuing through his remarkable solo career-albums like Transformer, Berlin, New York, Magic and Loss, and Ecstasy-Pass Thru Fire is crucial to an appreciation of Lou Reed, not only as a consummate underground musician, but as one of the truly significant poets of our time.
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“Some people like to go out dancing,
Other people they have to work.
There's even some evil mothers,
They'll tell you that everything is just dirt,
That women never really faint
Or that villains always blink their eyes
Or that children are the only ones who blush
And that life is just to die.
But anyone who ever had a heart
They wouldn't turn around and break it“

Remembering Lou Reed on his birthday.

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“There‘s a little magic in everything
And some loss to even things out.”

Remembering Lou Reed on his birthday.

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How I come to be listening to Metal Machine Music at almost 01:00 am is a mystery locked within the vagaries of shuffle-play. I've gone past the setting-my-teeth-on-edge phase into the semi-meditative state that can only be induced by an hour of patternless guitar feedback. It is, however, a reasonable accompaniment to the book I'm reading (tagged in comment) as Lou recorded it as a massive FU to his oppressive record label. Anger is an energy!

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