- 1
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
- 2
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
- 3
Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
- 4
Lou Reed - Vicious
- 5
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
- 6
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
- 7
Lou Reed - This Magic Moment
- 8
Lou Reed - Romeo Had Juliete
- 9
Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For The Man
- 10
Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd
- 11
Lou Reed - Nobody But You
- 12
Lou Reed - Average Guy
- 13
Lou Reed - Crazy Feeling
- 14
Lou Reed - Andy's Chest
- 15
Lou Reed - I'm So Free
- 16
Lou Reed - Pale Blue Eyes
- 17
Lou Reed - Sad Song
- 18
Lou Reed - Caroline Says 2
- 19
Lou Reed - Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
- 20
Lou Reed - Hangin' Round
- 21
Lou Reed - Heroin
- 22
Lou Reed - Vanishing Act
- 23
Lou Reed - Baby Face
- 24
Lou Reed - Charley's Girl
- 25
Lou Reed - Dirty Boulevard
- 26
Lou Reed - Kicks
- 27
Lou Reed - Ride Into The Sun
- 28
Lou Reed - September Song
- 29
Lou Reed - She's My Best Friend
- 30
Lou Reed - A Dream
- 31
Lou Reed - Berlin
- 32
Lou Reed - Caroline Says I
- 33
Lou Reed - Goodnight Ladies
- 34
Lou Reed - Harry's circumcision - Reverie gone astray
- 35
Lou Reed - I Love You
- 36
Lou Reed - I Love You, Suzanne
- 37
Lou Reed - Lady Day
- 38
Lou Reed - Magic And Loss - The Summation
- 39
Lou Reed - Make Up
- 40
Lou Reed - Open House
- 41
Lou Reed - Ride, Sally, Ride
- 42
Lou Reed - Smalltown
- 43
Lou Reed - Strawman
- 44
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
- 45
Lou Reed - Stupid Man
- 46
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
- 47
Lou Reed - The Day John Kennedy Died
- 48
Lou Reed - The Gun
- 49
Lou Reed - Turning Time Around
- 50
Lou Reed - Wagon Wheel
- 51
Lou Reed - What's Good - The Thesis
- 52
Lou Reed - Wild Child
- 53
Lou Reed - Women
- 54
Lou Reed - Adventurer
- 55
Lou Reed - Big Sky
- 56
Lou Reed - Brandenburg Gate
- 57
Lou Reed - Dirt
- 58
Lou Reed - Down At The Arcade
- 59
Lou Reed - Dreamin' - Escape
- 60
Lou Reed - Ecstasy
- 61
Lou Reed - Finish Line
- 62
Lou Reed - Hang On To Your Emotions
- 63
Lou Reed - How do You Think It Feels
- 64
Lou Reed - I Can't Stand It
- 65
Lou Reed - I Wanna Be Black
- 66
Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale
- 67
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
- 68
Lou Reed - Lisa Says
- 69
Lou Reed - Little Dog
- 70
Lou Reed - Love Is Here To Stay
- 71
Lou Reed - Magician
- 72
Lou Reed - My Friend George
- 73
Lou Reed - My House
- 74
Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation
- 75
Lou Reed - Ocean
- 76
Lou Reed - Rock And Roll
- 77
Lou Reed - Sex With Your Parents
- 78
Lou Reed - So Alone
- 79
Lou Reed - Soul Man
- 80
Lou Reed - Starlight
- 81
Lou Reed - Sword of Damocles
- 82
Lou Reed - Talking Book
- 83
Lou Reed - Tatters
- 84
Lou Reed - The Bed
- 85
Lou Reed - The Bells
- 86
Lou Reed - The Heroine
- 87
Lou Reed - The Kids
- 88
Lou Reed - There Is No Time
- 89
Lou Reed - Tranquilize
- 90
Lou Reed - Underneath The Bottle
- 91
Lou Reed - Walk And Talk It
- 92
Lou Reed - Waves Of Fear
- 93
Lou Reed - White Prism
- 94
Lou Reed - A Gift
- 95
Lou Reed - A Sheltered Life
- 96
Lou Reed - A Wild Being From Birth
- 97
Lou Reed - All Through The Night
- 98
Lou Reed - America - Star Spangled Banner
- 99
Lou Reed - Animal Language
- 100
Lou Reed - Balloon
- 101
Lou Reed - Banging On My Drum
- 102
Lou Reed - Baton Rouge
- 103
Lou Reed - Beginnig Of A Great Aventure
- 104
Lou Reed - Beginning To See The Light
- 105
Lou Reed - Betrayed
- 106
Lou Reed - Billy
- 107
Lou Reed - Blind Rage
- 108
Lou Reed - Bottoming Out
- 109
Lou Reed - Broadway Song
- 110
Lou Reed - Burning Embers
- 111
Lou Reed - Busload Of Faith
- 112
Lou Reed - Call On Me
- 113
Lou Reed - Call On Me (feat. Laurie Anderson)
- 114
Lou Reed - Candy Says
- 115
Lou Reed - Change
- 116
Lou Reed - Cheat on Me
- 117
Lou Reed - City Lights
- 118
Lou Reed - Claim To Fame
- 119
Lou Reed - Courtly Orangutans
- 120
Lou Reed - Cremation
- 121
Lou Reed - Dime Store Mystery
- 122
Lou Reed - Doin' The Thing That We Want To
- 123
Lou Reed - Don't Hurt a Woman
- 124
Lou Reed - Don't Talk To Me About Work
- 125
Lou Reed - Downtown Dirt
- 126
Lou Reed - Dragon
- 127
Lou Reed - Edgar Allan Poe
- 128
Lou Reed - Egg Cream
- 129
Lou Reed - Endless Cycle
- 130
Lou Reed - Endlessly Jealous
- 131
Lou Reed - Ennui
- 132
Lou Reed - Every Frog Has His Day
- 133
Lou Reed - Faces And Names
- 134
Lou Reed - Families
- 135
Lou Reed - Fly Into The Sun
- 136
Lou Reed - Foggy Notion
- 137
Lou Reed - Follow The Leader
- 138
Lou Reed - Foot Of Pride
- 139
Lou Reed - Forever Changed
- 140
Lou Reed - Frustration (feat. Metallica)
- 141
Lou Reed - Future Farmers Of America
- 142
Lou Reed - Gassed And Stoked
- 143
Lou Reed - Gimme Some Good Times
- 144
Lou Reed - Going Down
- 145
Lou Reed - Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
- 146
Lou Reed - Good Taste
- 147
Lou Reed - Goodby Mass
- 148
Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public
- 149
Lou Reed - Guardian Angel
- 150
Lou Reed - Guilty
- 151
Lou Reed - Halloween Parade
- 152
Lou Reed - Heavenly Arms
- 153
Lou Reed - Hello It's Me
- 154
Lou Reed - Here Comes The Bride
- 155
Lou Reed - High In The City
- 156
Lou Reed - Hold On
- 157
Lou Reed - Home Of The Brave
- 158
Lou Reed - Hookywooky
- 159
Lou Reed - Hop Frog
- 160
Lou Reed - How do You Speak To An Angel
- 161
Lou Reed - I Believe
- 162
Lou Reed - I Believe in Love
- 163
Lou Reed - I Remember You
- 164
Lou Reed - I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)
- 165
Lou Reed - I Want To Boogie With You
- 166
Lou Reed - I'll Be Your Mirror
- 167
Lou Reed - Iced Honey (feat. Metallica)
- 168
Lou Reed - Images
- 169
Lou Reed - Imp Of The Perverse
- 170
Lou Reed - In Our Sleep
- 171
Lou Reed - It Wasn't Me
- 172
Lou Reed - Junior Dad
- 173
Lou Reed - Keep Away
- 174
Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons
- 175
Lou Reed - Ladies Pay
- 176
Lou Reed - Leave Me Alone
- 177
Lou Reed - Like a Possum
- 178
Lou Reed - Little Sister
- 179
Lou Reed - Looking For Love
- 180
Lou Reed - Love Makes You Feel
- 181
Lou Reed - Mad
- 182
Lou Reed - Make up my Mind
- 183
Lou Reed - Mama's Got a Lover
- 184
Lou Reed - Martial Law
- 185
Lou Reed - Men Of Good Fortune
- 186
Lou Reed - Mistress Dread
- 187
Lou Reed - Mistrial
- 188
Lou Reed - Modern Dance
- 189
Lou Reed - My Old Man
- 190
Lou Reed - My Red Joystick
- 191
Lou Reed - Mystic Child
- 192
Lou Reed - N. Y. Stars
- 193
Lou Reed - New Sensations
- 194
Lou Reed - No Chance
- 195
Lou Reed - No Money Down
- 196
Lou Reed - Nobody's Business
- 197
Lou Reed - Nowhere At All
- 198
Lou Reed - NYC Man
- 199
Lou Reed - Oh Jim
- 200
Lou Reed - Old Poe
- 201
Lou Reed - One For My Baby
- 202
Lou Reed - Ooohhh Baby
- 203
Lou Reed - Outside
- 204
Lou Reed - Paranoia Key Of E
- 205
Lou Reed - Peggy Sue
- 206
Lou Reed - Pow Wow
- 207
Lou Reed - Power And Glory (The Situation)
- 208
Lou Reed - Power And Glory Part 2 - Magic Transformation
- 209
Lou Reed - Prologue (Ligiea)
- 210
Lou Reed - Pumping Blood
- 211
Lou Reed - Real Goodtime Together
- 212
Lou Reed - Riptide
- 213
Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Heart
- 214
Lou Reed - Rock Minuet
- 215
Lou Reed - Rock'N'Roll
- 216
Lou Reed - Rooftop Garden
- 217
Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance
- 218
Lou Reed - Science Of The Mind
- 219
Lou Reed - Senselessly Cruel
- 220
Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling
- 221
Lou Reed - Shooting Star
- 222
Lou Reed - Sick Of You
- 223
Lou Reed - Sister Ray
- 224
Lou Reed - Slip Away (a Warning)
- 225
Lou Reed - Smiles
- 226
Lou Reed - Some Kinda Love
- 227
Lou Reed - Something Happened
- 228
Lou Reed - Spit It Out
- 229
Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony
- 230
Lou Reed - Style It Takes
- 231
Lou Reed - Teach The Gifted Children
- 232
Lou Reed - Tell It To Your Heart
- 233
Lou Reed - Temporary Thing
- 234
Lou Reed - The Cask
- 235
Lou Reed - The Conqueror Worm
- 236
Lou Reed - The Fall Of The House Of Usher
- 237
Lou Reed - The Last Shot
- 238
Lou Reed - The Original Wrapper
- 239
Lou Reed - The Power Of Positive Drinking
- 240
Lou Reed - The Proposition
- 241
Lou Reed - The Raven
- 242
Lou Reed - The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 2
- 243
Lou Reed - The Valley Of Unrest
- 244
Lou Reed - The View (feat. Metallica)
- 245
Lou Reed - Think It Over
- 246
Lou Reed - Thousand Departed Friends
- 247
Lou Reed - Trade In
- 248
Lou Reed - Tripitena's Speech
- 249
Lou Reed - Trouble With Classicists
- 250
Lou Reed - Turn Out The Light
- 251
Lou Reed - Turn To Me
- 252
Lou Reed - Vicious Circle
- 253
Lou Reed - Video Violence
- 254
Lou Reed - Wait
- 255
Lou Reed - Warrior King
- 256
Lou Reed - What Becomes a Legend Most
- 257
Lou Reed - White Light / White Heat
- 258
Lou Reed - White Light / White Heat
- 259
Lou Reed - Why Can't I Be Good
- 260
Lou Reed - With You
- 261
Lou Reed - Work
- 262
Lou Reed - Xmas In February
- 263
Lou Reed - You Wear It So Well
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Lou Reed
And then I had a vision
Roderick Usher:
Ah Edgar
Ah Edgar, my dear friend Edgar
Edgar:
It's been a long time, Roderick
I've ridden many miles
It's been a dull and soundless day for autumn
The leaves have lost their autumn glow
and the clouds seem oppressive with their drifting finery
Roderick Usher:
I know, my friend
Though I own so much of this land I find
the country insufferable
I deal only in half pleasures
Edgar:
Speaking of half pleasures
would you care for a tincture of opium?
Roderick Usher:
Nothing would please me more than to smoke
with an old friend
I've experienced the hideous dropping of the veil
the bitter lapse into common life
unredeemed dreariness of thought
I have an iciness, a sickening of the heart
Edgar:
It's true you don't look well, Roderick
but I am your friend
no matter the occasion or position of the stars
I'm glad you wrote me
but I must admit to concern
Roderick Usher:
I cannot contain my heart
Edgar, I look to you for solace
for relief from myself
What I have is constitutional
a family evil, a nervous affection that must surely pass
But I do have this morbid acuteness of senses
I can eat only the most insipid food
clothes only of the lightest texture
The odor of flowers I find oppressive
My eyes cannot bear even the faintest light
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Roderick Usher:
Did you hear that?
Edgar:
I hear
I am listening, go on
Roderick Usher:
I shall perish
I will perish in this deplorable folly
I dread the future
Not the events, the results
The most trivial event
causes the greatest agitation of the soul
I do not fear danger except in its absolute effect terror
I find I must inevitably abandon life and reason together
in my struggles with the demon fear
Perhaps you'll think me superstitious
but the physique of this place
it hovers about me like a great body
some diseased outer shell
some decaying finite skin encasing my morale
Edgar:
You mentioned your sister was ill
Roderick Usher:
My beloved sister, my sole companion
has had a long continuing illness
whose inevitable conclusion seems forsworn
This will leave me the last of the ancient race of Ushers
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Edgar:
She looks so much like you
Roderick Usher:
I love her in a nameless way
more than I love myself
Her demise will leave me hopelessly
confined to memories and realities of a future
so barren as to be stultifying
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Edgar:
Oh, what of physicians?
Roderick Usher:
Ah, they are baffled
Until today she refused bed rest
wanting to be present in your honor
but finally she succumbed to the prostrating power of the destroyer
You will probably see her no more
Edgar:
Sound and music take us to the twin curves of experience
Like brother and sister intertwined
they relieve themselves of bodily contact
and dance in a pagan revelry
Roderick Usher:
I have soiled myself with my designs
I am ashamed of my brain
The enemy is me
and the executioner terror
Music is a reflection of our inner self
unfiltered agony touches the wayward string
The wayward brain confuses itself
with the self-perceived future
and turns inward with loathing and terror
Either by design or thought
we are doomed to know our own end
I've written a lyric
Edgar:
May I hear it?
Roderick Usher:
It is called "The Haunted Palace"
In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace --
Snow-white palace -- reared its head.
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow;
(This -- all this -- was in the olden time long ago)
And every gentle air that dallied,
Along the rampart plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.
All wanderers in that happy valley
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
The sovereign of the realm serene,
A troop of echoes whose sweet duty
Was but to sing
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate!
And round about his home the glory,
Is but a dim-remembered story.
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a ghastly river,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh -- but smile no more.
Nevermore.
Edgar:
It's cold in here
Roderick Usher:
I tell you minerals are sentient things
The gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere
of their own about the waters and the walls proves this
Thus the silent yet importunate and terrible influence
which for centuries has molded my family
And now me
Madeline Usher:
[screaming]
Roderick Usher:
Excuse me
Madeline Usher:
[vomiting]
Roderick Usher:
She is gone
Out, sad light
Roderick has no life
I shall preserve her corpse for a fortnight
Edgar:
But Roderick..
Roderick Usher:
I shall place it in a vault facing the lake
I do not wish to answer to the medical men
nor place her in the exposed burial plot of my family
We shall inter her at the proper date
when I am more fully of a right mind
Her malady was unusual
Please do not question me on this
Edgar:
I cannot question you
Roderick Usher:
Then help me now
Madeline Usher:
[moaning]
Edgar:
One would think you twins
Roderick Usher:
We are
We have always been sympathetic to each other
Have you seen this?
It is her
Edgar:
It is a whirlwind
You should not
You must not behold this
Roderick, these appearances which bewilder you are mere electrical phenomena not uncommon
Or perhaps they have their rank origins in the marshy gases of the lake
Please, let's close this casement and I will read and you will listen
Aand together we will pass this terrible night together
What's that?
What is that?
Don't you hear that?
Roderick Usher:
Not hear it?
Yes, I hear it and have heard it many minutes have I heard it?
Oh, pity me miserable wretch
I dared not
Oh no
I dared not speak
We have put her living in the tomb
I have heard feeble movements in the coffin
I thought I heard
I dared not speak
Oh God
I have heard footsteps
Do you not hear them?
Attention
Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart?
Madman
Madman
I tell you she now stands without the door
Madeline Usher :
[moaning and screaming]