Reed, Lou - The Kids Lyrics

LOUUUUUUU

Now I can go hang, shoot, and castrate myself.....not necessarily in that order.

Yea,good luck

Struggente Capolavoro

Bob Ezrin's kids. He in fact told them,to get the desired result,that their mother wasn't coming back.

BJ Wilson from Procol Harum playing brilliant drums as usual

He's what brought me here. I'd never heard this recording before, but Barry was one of my best friends and a band mate.

Cristo che capolavoro!!!! 🖤💚❤️❣️

Great poet, deep emotions: Lou Reed.

L.P. grandioso! Viva Lou Reed!

#IDontMindThePain

My heart is overflowin' anyway.

I want it to be over but I want to play it again

It may be the most harrowing song I know; listening to it is close to masochism. It always results in tears - and valium doesn't help the bash.

I'm reporting this song to the political Correctness Police.

You're a clueless fool.

this song is so hard to listen, with those lyrics, with the children crying, is so sad :-(

Gut-wrenching, one could say.

Ugh this reminds me of a woman I met this year who has a mental illness and is not allowed to see her kids. I didn't pry into exactly why, because it's none of my damn business. Anyway she's a nice person and it sucks.

Cris déchirants.J'ai (je ) cries aussi fort que lui.

Apparently inspired by Lou's wife Bettye who was taken from her mother at a young age after her father left when she was very young. Lou embellished the rest which helped to break up their marriage. Lol

Remastered version ... Not as good as the vinyl. Where is the movie .
The Kids , The Bed , Sad Song. Decadent Masterpiece. Love is album.

"That miserable, rotten SLUT couldn't turn anyone away"

Why is he much happier? 0:

because jim is a cad and he doesn't want to be bothered

Legend 👍

I bet a lot of those girls who were free love hot pieces in the 60's sort of grew into sad skanks by the mid 70's

What was the point of your comment Dean? Everybody gets older. Very few people retain the vitality and health of their youth.

I smell incel.

@Mike Scheibinger We'll know for sure if Dean drives into a crowd of people.

It always amuses me when people call this kind of comment 'incel' and 'slutshaming', when the biggest slutshamers are women amongst themselves.
The sixties' flower children became junkies and prostitutes that burned out in half a decade.

@Jesper Jansen It's also not-so-closet misogyny; and you come across as all three.

They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because she was making it with sisters and brothers
And everyone else, all of the others
Like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me

They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because of the things that they heard she had done
The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one
And all of the drugs she took, every one, every one

And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man, no words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way

They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because number on was the girl friend from Paris
The things that they did - ah - they didn't have to ask us
And then the Welshman from India, who came here to stay

They're taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
They're taking her children away
Because of the things she did in the streets
In the alleys and bars, no she couldn't be beat
That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away

I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here
But my heart is overflowin' anyway
I'm just a tired man, no words to say
But since she lost her daughter
It's her eyes that fill with water
And I am much happier this way

Like sooo many

One of the most harrowing things ever caught on tape.

a song for Trump today..

*Trump's most hideous crime so far..*

And what have you done about it? Nothing. That's what, nothing. What did you do when the previous administration did the same thing? Nothing. What did you do when Libya was bombed to smithereens by the agent of Change? Nothing. You've done nothing and stopped nothing, so have some consideration for others who are tired of hearing this shit. This song illustrated the horrors of domestic abuse long before it became an issue for you due to Trump. But hey, now the cries of children can be politicized and utilized, so it's all good right?

"This song illustrated the horrors of domestic abuse"
yes.. and AGAIN - like any powerful work it can also resonate in other ways..
"long before it became an issue for you due to Trump"
i have been fully aware of the horrors of domestic abuse long before Trump came along.. that is something he has not been so far so outspoken about..

HOW WILL GLOMPF EVER RECOVER!????????????

​@MP R Dude everything is politics. You're lucky that politics doesn't affect every fucking thing you do. That's what the rest of the world has to deal with.

Well this became relevant again.

This is my favorite work by Lou! Without a doubt! It chills me to the bone!

Lou throwing himself out for the rest of us. Rest in peace. Love you for all you gave us

Hear hear !!!!

the greatest disturbing song. lots of stories..........

Very good.

la adoro

pure io

I don't know if it's true that the kids near the end were told (falsely) that their mother had just died but it's possible. Something certainly got that kind of a reaction out of them.

Nick Perkins yup.

Bob Ezrin said he told his child that it was bedtime. Then he did a second recording where he asked them to pretend they missed their mom. The crying is real, but they are just calling "Mommy" on cue (actually the younger one actually did get upset calling for mommy).

While flipping through a five-year-old copy of NME in a WFMU bathroom, I came across an article about "scary music" by Mark Beaumont. He wrote that the little kids who can be heard wailing on Lou Reed's track The Kids (from his 1973 LP Berlin) were the young children of producer Bob Ezrin, who were crying because their Dad had told them that their mother had just been killed in a horrible accident. Their mother was fine - the track needed some crying, so Producer Ezrin produced some. (Found this on the net today)

also , kids that age will cry anyway when they get tired or if they got the wrong piece of candy .

@Matt Hayes - Sorry, but that's an urban myth, which is debunked on this page:
https://indie88.com/mythbusting-four-indie-music-myths/

What a masterpiece. A journey through a poor scorned woman's life - we can only feel sadness for her. And the retching of the kids in the end - with British accents, strangely." MummY!" Even for the childless and heartless (me): emotional.

Unusual Recording Techniques #1: Lou Reed's "The Kids"

While flipping through a five-year-old copy of NME in a WFMU bathroom, I came across an article about "scary music" by Mark Beaumont. He wrote that the little kids who can be heard wailing on Lou Reed's track The Kids (from his 1973 LP Berlin) were the young children of producer Bob Ezrin, who were crying because their Dad had told them that their mother had just been killed in a horrible accident. Their mother was fine - the track needed some crying, so Producer Ezrin produced some. The crying starts at the 5:17 mark

bighollywoodproducer Beat me to it!

goosebumps when the kids cry...

more so than ever now cos that is what the most powerful government in the world is doing..

Kippenvel

Fantastic bass-lines by Tony Levin.

the song that doesn't have Jack Bruce has a fantastic bass line,go figure.

Hermoso

The kids' crying at the end always kill me.

I love that part: always makes me laugh!

@Cad Delworth What makes it even funnier is that it's actually the producer's kids crying because he told them their mother was dead.

@freetofu That producer is evil jeez...

@Drunk Roku Roku you're drunk. Go home!

one of the best lyrics of Lou Reed, is al lirical description of images and stories
perfect song 

jaime nuñez Lou Reed was one of the greatest songwriters I've ever heard songs from, aside from Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan. They wrote some of the most scuzzy, outsider-centric songs of all time. #ripwalterbecker