Velvet Underground, The - The Murder Mystery Lyrics






[Left voice:]
Candy-screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring memories both lovely and guiltfree, lurid and lovely with twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laughter, laconic giggles, ennui fort the passions, in order to justify most spurious desires, rectify moments, most serious and urgent to hail upon the face of most odious time, requiring replies most facile and vacuous with words nearly singed, with the heartbeat of passions, spew forth with the grace of a tart going under subject of a great concern, noble origin

[Right voice:]
Denigrate obtuse and active, verbs, pronouns, skewer the sieve of the optical sewer, release the handle that holds all the gates up, puncture the eyeballs that seep all the muck up, read all the books and the people worth reading and still see the muck on the sky of the ceiling

[Left voice:]
Please raise the flag, rosy red carpet envy
English used here; this messenger is nervous
It's not fun at all out here in the hall

[Right voice:]
Mister Moonlight, succulent smooth and gorgeous
Isn't it nice? We're number one and so forth
Isn't it sweet being unique

[Left voice:]
For screeching and yelling and various offenses, lower the queen and bend her over the tub; against the state, the country, the commitee; hold her head under the water, please, for an hour, for groveling and spewing and various offenses; puncture the bloat with the wing of a sparrow, the inverse, the obverse, the converse, the reverse, the sharpening wing of the edge of a sparrow, for suitable reckonings too numerous to mention, as the queen is fat, she is devoured by rats; there is one way to skin a cat or poison a rat; it is here forth, hear to three, forthirightly stated

[Right voice:]
Relent and obverse and inverse and perverse and reverse the inverse of perverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and chop it and pluck it and cut it and spit it and sew it to joy on the edge of a cyclop and spin it to rage on the edge of a cylindrical minute

[Left voice:]
Put down that rag simpering, callow and morose
Who let you in? If I knew, then I could get out
The murder you see is a mystery to me

[Right voice:]
Dear Mister Muse, fellow of wit and gentry
Medieval ruse filling the shallow and empty
Fools that duel, duel in pools

[Left voice:]
To Rembrandt and Oswald, to peanuts and ketchup, sanctimonious sycophants stir in the bushes, up to the stand with your foot on the Bible; as king, I must order and constantly arouse, if you swear to catch up and throw up and up-up, a king full of virgin and kiss me and spin it, excuse to willow and wander, dark wonders divest me of robes, sutures, Harry and pig meat, the fate of a nation, rests hard on your bosoms, the king on his throne, puts his hand down his robe, the torture of inverse and silkscreen and Harry, and set the tongue squealing the reverse and inverse

[Right voice:]
Tantalize poets with visions of grandeur, their faces turn blue with the reek of the compost, as the living try hard to retain what the dead lost, with double-dead sickness from writing at what cost and business and business and reverse and reverse and set the brain reeling the inverse and perverse

[Left voice:]
Objections suffice apelike and tactile bassoon
Oboeing me cordon the virus' section
Off to the left is what is not right

[Right voice:]
English arcane, tantamount here to frenzy
Passing for me, lascivious elder passion
Corpulent filth disguised as silk

[Left voice:]
Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the boredom, I shall poison the city and sink it with fire, for cordless and Harry and ape-pig and scissor, the messenger's wig seems fraught with desire, for blueberry picnics and pince-nez and magpies, the messenger's skirt, would you please hook it higher, for children and adults, all those under ninety, how truly disgusting. Would you please put it down? A stray in this fray is no condom worth saving, as king, I'm quite just, but it's just quite impossible, a robe and a robe and a robe and a bat, no double-class inverse could make lying worth dying

[Right voice:]
With cheap simian melodies, hillbilly outgush, for illiterate ramblings, for cheap understanding, for misunderstranding, the simple, the inverse, the compost, the reverse, the obtuse and stupid, and business and business, and cheap stupid lyrics, and simple mass reverse while the real thing is dying

[Left voice:]
Exit the pig, enter the owl and gorgeous
King on the left, it on the right and primping
Adjusting his nose as he reads from his scroll

[Right voice:]
Folksy knockwurst, peel back the skin of French
And what do you find? Follicles intertwining
Succulent prose wrapped up in robes

[Left voice:]
Off with his head, take his head from his neck off, requiring memories both lovely and guiltfree, put out his eyes, then cut his nose off, sanctimonius sycophants stir in the bushes, scoop out his brain, put a string where his ears were, all the king's horses and all the king's men, swing the whole mess at the end of the wire, scratch out his eyes with the tip of a razor, let the wire extend from the tip of a rose, Caroline, Caroline, Caroline, oh! but retains the remnants of what once was a nose, pass me my robe, fill my bath up with water

[Right voice:]
Jumpsuit and pigmeat and making his fortune, while making them happy with the inverse and obverse and making them happy and making them happy with the coy and the stupid, just another dumb lackey who puts out the one thing while singing the other, but the real thing's alone and it is no man's brother

[Left voice:]
No one knows no nose is good news and senseless
Extend the wine, drink here a toast to selfless
Ten-year-old port is perfect in court

[Right voice:]
Safety is nice, not an unwise word spoken
Scary bad dreams made safe in lovely songs
No doom or gloom allowed in this room

[Left voice:]
Casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, cascade and cyanide, Rachaminoff, Beethoven, skull-silly wagon and justice and perverse and reverse the inverse and inverse and inverse, blueberry catalog, questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due cry, to battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing on minstrels and choking on dirt, disease please seems the order of the day, please the king, please the king, please the king day, casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, point of order, return the king here to the ceiling

[Right voice:]
Oh, not to be whistled or studied or hummed or remembered at nights when the eye is alone, but to skewer and ravage and savage and split with the grace of a diamond then bellicose wit, to stun and to stagger with words as such stone, that those who do hear cannot again return home

[Left voice:]
Razzamatazz, there's nothing on my shoulder
Lust is a must, shaving my head's made me bolder
Will you kindly read what it was I brought thee?

[Right voice:]
Hello to Ray, hello to Godiva and Angel
Who let you in? Isn't it nice, the party?
Aren't the lights pretty at night?

[Left voice:]
Sick leaf and sorrow and pincers not scissors, regard and refrain from the daughters of marriage, regards for the elders and youngest in carriage, regard and regard for the inverse and perverse and obverse, and diverse, of reverse and reverse, regard from the sick, the dumb, and the camel from pump's storing water, like brain is too marrow to x-ray and filthy and cutting and then peeling to skin and to skin and to bone and to structure to livid and pallid and turgid and structured and structured and structured and structured and structured and regard and refrain, the sick and the dumb, inverse, reverse and perverse

[Right voice:]
Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the seething for writhing and reeling and two-bit reportage, for sick with the body and sinister holy, the drown burst blue babies now dead on the seashore, the valorous horseman, who hang from the ceiling, the pig on the carpet, the dusty pale jissom, that has no effect for the sick with the see-saw, the inverse, obverse converse, reverse of reverse the diverse and converse of reverse and perverse and sweet pyrotechnics, and let's have another of inverse, converse, diverse, perverse and reverse, hell's graveyard is damned as they chew on their brains, the slick and the scum, reverse, inverse and perverse

[Left voice:]
Plowing while it's done away
Dumb and ready pig meat
Sick upon the carpet
Climb into the casket
Safe within the parapet
Sack is in the parapet
Pigs are out and growling
Slaughter by the seashore
See the lifeguard drowning
Sea is full of fishes
Fishes full of china
China plates are falling
All fall down
Sick and shiny carpet
Lie before my eyes-eyes
Lead me to the ceiling
Walk upon the wall wall
Tender as the green grass
Drink the whisky horror
See the young girls dancing
Flies upon the beaches
Beaches are for sailors
Nuns across the sea-wall
Black hood horseman raging
Swordsman eating fire
Fire on the carpet
Set the house ablazing
Seize and bring it flaming
Gently to the ground ground
Dizzy Bell Miss Fortune
Fat and full of love-juice
Drip it on the carpet
Down below the fire hose
Weep and whisky fortune
Sail me to the moon, dear
Drunken dungeon sailors
Headless Roman horsemen
The king and queen are empty
Their heads are in the outhouse
Fish upon the water
Bowl upon the saviour
Toothless wigged Laureate
Plain and full of fancy
Name upon a letterhead
Impressing all the wheat germ
Love you for a nickel
Maul you for a quarter
Set the casket flaming
Do not go gentle blazing

[Right voice:]
Sick upon the staircase
Sick upon the staircase
Blood upon the pillow
Climb into the parapet
See the church bells gleaming
Knife that scrapes a sick plate
Dentures full of air holes
The tailor couldn't mend straight
Shoot her full of air holes
Climbing up the casket
Take me to the casket
Teeth upon her red throat
Screw me in the daisies
Rip upon her holler
Snip the seas fantastic
Treat her like a sailor
Full and free and nervous
Out to make his fortune
Either this or that way
Sickly or in good health
Piss upon a building
Like a dog in training
Teach to heel or holler
Yodel on a sing song
Down upon the carpet
Tickle polyester
Sick within the parapet
Screwing for a dollar
Sucking on a fire-hose
Chewing on a rubber line
Tied to chairs and rare bits
Pay another player
Oh you're such a good lad
Here's another dollar
Tie him to the bedpost
Sick with witches' covens
Craving for a raw meat
Bones upon the metal
Sick upon the circle
Down upon the carpet
Down upon the carpet
Down below the parapet
Waiting for your bidding
Pig upon the carpet
Tumenescent railroad
Neuro-anaesthesia analog
Ready for a good look
Drooling at the birches
Swinging from the birches
Succulent Nebraska





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  1. P.... G....

    should be mandatory to listen by quantum-so-called-phisicists :D

  2. V.... E....

    mister moonlight / please raise the flag <33

  3. m.... ....

    Chop suey may have had some inspiration from this

  4. N.... M....

    As I drag my dagger across Google's throat

  5. T.... C....

    the ending is so weird

  6. B.... P....

    so this is Pram before Pram ever existed

  7. u.... ....

    SEE THE LIFEGUARD DROWNING

  8. N.... P....

    no ma, geniales!

  9. N.... B....

    Chop suey def copied this song

  10. B.... ....

    What if a super high William Burroughs and some weird spooky voiced chick jumped on stage with The Doors? (Jim already passed out)

  11. G.... H....

    This track is outrageously Epic

  12. G.... H....

    Love you for a nickel maul u 4 quarter

  13. G.... H....

    Screw me in the daisies

  14. J.... R....

    This song is special for me because when I first heard it I realized that we can see our eyelids with our eyes as we are opening them (its a bit tricky) I felt weird upon realizing it. It felt like an achievement. Anyway, wonderful song.

  15. W.... Q....

    Did anyone really need further evidence that the VU were the best and most audaciously inventive pop-rock band of the 1960’s?

  16. s.... w....

    Eddy me trouxe aqui

  17. I.... L....

    Posiblemente una de las mejores canciones psicodélicas de toda la historia de uno de los grupos más opuestos a la psicodelia, The Velvet Underground, los mejores entonces y siempre. RIP Lou Reed y Sterling Morrison.

  18. e.... a....

    💛💛

  19. f.... ....

    IMO a masterpiece.
    Unfortunately empty headed 13 - 17 yr olds don't get to hear stuff as good as this ....they have been conditioned to Beyoncé, Katy Perry et all.

    f.... ....

    I bought this album 3 years ago when i was 17. Dont lose hope:) there will always be a group of people that is listening to this amazing stuff

    f.... ....

    @CV what bands exactly are you calling underground kid or are you just using that term because of the Velvet Underground how did you find out about them

    f.... ....

    @Eat Them 20 years old listening to this album that's a bit different yeah

  20. T.... S....

    Good song. Shit album cover. I don't care what they say. It's suck. Not artsy. At all.

  21. A.... C....

    Lo mejor! <3

  22. z.... p....

    5 days in2 meth binge
    plays this song to synergize with my halucinations

    z.... p....

    You're an idiot if you do that s*** kid

    z.... p....

    no one thinks youre cool for doing meth

    z.... p....

    Rock on if it makes u feel good go 4 it Like we used 2 say in the 80s FTW !!!!

  23. R.... U....

    Does anyone else think of Chop Suey when they hear the start?

    R.... U....

    I agree the rambling and the riff is almost the same

  24. A.... B....

    Does this sound like Death Grips to anyone? Getting Year of the Snitch vibes from this.

  25. g.... r....

    And this folks is why the velvet underground are the best rock and roll band to ever exist

  26. D.... M....

    Sterling's voice sounds similar to Frank Zappa in this. Always thought that.

  27. A.... N....

    The whimsical chaos of this song fills me with glee.

  28. D.... L....

    can I hear instrumental version of this ??

  29. P.... J....

    Isso lembra muito Mutantes!

  30. P.... N....

    This son is amazing. It reminds me of Frankie Teardrop by Suicide for some weird reason....

  31. A.... P....

    Wow, I'm fucking impressed, they should make a biopic about The Velvets

  32. V.... L....

    This is what I call "art"

  33. G.... ....

    F'ing Beautiful

  34. D.... A....

    Imma just save y'all the trouble...EVERYONE was influenced by this

  35. B.... B....

    Drink the whiskey horror.
    Love you for a nickel.

    B.... B....

    maul u 4 a quarter

  36. J.... H....

    maar so fucking vooruitstrevend goeie shit

  37. J.... H....

    oh wat ken ze toch lekker vals zingen ze is ook nog eens dik

  38. D.... L....

    When people ask where gothic rock comes from, direct them here

  39. A.... X....

    Mehr geht nicht!

  40. M.... A....

    Sterling was a truly genius!

  41. m.... ....

    The V.U. third album was oh so tamed compared to the first two ones, and no it is not a compliment.
    "The murder mystery" was the only exciting track on the record.

    m.... ....

    musicsavage You are wrong, the third VU album is beautiful and features some of their best songs.

    m.... ....

    ur on crack asshole I say that you became better with the addition of Doug yule John kale couldn't play bass guitar for s h i t and Doug had a great voice unlike John Cale

  42. C.... W....

    Around :23 secondes it sounds EXACTLY like The Doors - now I know where Jim Morrision and the Doors got the idea for moody organ music they were so famous for FROM THE VELVETS !!!! Art imitates life - imitation and being copied is the way it goes. Lou Reed lived into his 70's whereas Jim Morrison "Lived Young, Died Fast, and Left a Beautiful Corpse".

    C.... W....

    Oh look another Jim Morrison worshipper. There isn’t a single fucking Jim Morrison comparison here

    C.... W....

    The Doors had already released 3 albums before this song was out, stupid.

  43. H.... ....

    Radiohead was influenced by this maybe?

    H.... ....

    Bro, this group influenced the best. David Bowie, Radiohead, Floyd, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, and I wouldn't be surprised if they inspired the Talking Heads

    H.... ....

    @Counter-Weight Official Channel ...and Roxy Music, Brian Eno, The Stooges, Patti Smith, Television, The Sex Pistols, U2, REM, Dinosaur Jr, Nick Cave, the Pixies, Nirvana, Yo La Tengo, The Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire..... I could go on....

    H.... ....

    @DrRestezi how did you mention all these but didn't mention the strokes

    H.... ....

    @de strokes Yep, them as well.

  44. V.... B....

    The least popular karaoke song but one of the best recordings ever.

    V.... B....

    Be cool if they had a karaoke version.
    Just seems like some of them words might go by a bit quick.

  45. J.... N....

    Their most underrated album and the most underrated song on it. Lou could do anything and redefined music

  46. C.... L....

    Definitely not made to be played live!

    C.... L....

    Would definitely be fantastic live though. This song is alright in any form.

    C.... L....

    Christian Lemelin I think they did play it live, albeit differently than this..

  47. L.... M....

    00:00-00:24 SYSTEM OF A DOWN.

  48. t.... d....

    I thought only one guy was singing the entire time because only one of my earphones worked until I put on proper ones and realised lmao

  49. R.... L....

    I'm into it...except when Mo and Yule sing....There is a perfect edit of this song without their voices. I especially cannot stand to hear "Oboe and me" - ugh

  50. B.... S....

    Esto es música pura

  51. C.... J....

    Set this to play three times before leaving a bar. Most people will be driven batshit, it's definitely not popular among most people.

  52. S.... D....

    too bad my left earphone is busted

  53. E.... H....

    I understand it's art and I do like the velvet underground but it's a bit annoying to listen to. I'd rather just read the poetry.

  54. b.... ....

    And just remember the Velvets were supposed to have run out of ideas after John Cale left and Andy Warhol lost interest in them. Bowie loved all their albums I believe.

    b.... ....

    bigboxbobby2 All four of their proper studio albums (forget Squeeze) are brilliant.

    b.... ....

    @William Quiterio Squeeze is fantastic too

    b.... ....

    Bowie loved Lou Reed and his work with the Velvets so much that he went on to produce Lou Reed’s most popular album- Transformer. It was a match made in heaven, really. Mainly because Bowie wanted to cover more serious topics rather than being a pop star, and Lou wanted the opposite. It was great for the both of them to work together

    b.... ....

    john cale didn't quit he was fired lol

  55. R.... ....

    theres a band called "the babies" the singers voices sound very similar to reed and yule

  56. S.... ....

    Moe Tucker was the best and she never gets any love. I love you Moe!

    S.... ....

    @Caalamus shut the fuck up this trump propaganda ain't working here

    S.... ....

    @Caalamus Trump's supporters are really mad.

    S.... ....

    @de strokes you read often?

    "trump propaganda" :P

    I'm preaching the Gospel of Locke & trying to remind
    you morons what the term Liberal means!!!

    You are why there is a Trump!

    S.... ....

    @hugo ache what are they mad about? That their guy won... is continuing to win... & that it's your fault? I don't think they're mad.

    But I am... you idiots are ruining the Left! ...& empowering fascism!

    S.... ....

    @Caalamus Stop running... You are a Trump supporter because you appreciate his ideas and his politics, you don't?... To be there only because you think that liberals and leftist are idiots is a insane position, is sado masochism.

  57. c.... p....

    I remember I was walking around Oceanside beach with earbuds listening to this and I was frying off 2 tabs and I started flipping out cause it was too much and my cocaine got wet from the ocean water and I couldn't get straight so I went home and the whole trip was fucking nuts

  58. J.... M....

    6:35 onwards... I could listen to that forever ^^

  59. C.... ....

    "The Murder Mystery"

    [Left voice:]
    Candy-screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring memories both lovely and guiltfree, lurid and lovely with twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laughter, laconic giggles, ennui fort the passions, in order to justify most spurious desires, rectify moments, most serious and urgent to hail upon the face of most odious time, requiring replies most facile and vacuous with words nearly singed, with the heartbeat of passions, spew forth with the grace of a tart going under subject of a great concern, noble origin

    [Right voice:]
    Denigrate obtuse and active, verbs, pronouns, skewer the sieve of the optical sewer, release the handle that holds all the gates up, puncture the eyeballs that seep all the muck up, read all the books and the people worth reading and still see the muck on the sky of the ceiling

    [Left voice:]
    Please raise the flag, rosy red carpet envy
    English used here; this messenger is nervous
    It's not fun at all out here in the hall

    [Right voice:]
    Mister Moonlight, succulent smooth and gorgeous
    Isn't it nice? We're number one and so forth
    Isn't it sweet being unique

    [Left voice:]
    For screeching and yelling and various offenses, lower the queen and bend her over the tub; against the state, the country, the commitee; hold her head under the water, please, for an hour, for groveling and spewing and various offenses; puncture the bloat with the wing of a sparrow, the inverse, the obverse, the converse, the reverse, the sharpening wing of the edge of a sparrow, for suitable reckonings too numerous to mention, as the queen is fat, she is devoured by rats; there is one way to skin a cat or poison a rat; it is here forth, hear to three, forthirightly stated

    [Right voice:]
    Relent and obverse and inverse and perverse and reverse the inverse of perverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and chop it and pluck it and cut it and spit it and sew it to joy on the edge of a cyclop and spin it to rage on the edge of a cylindrical minute

    [Left voice:]
    Put down that rag simpering, callow and morose
    Who let you in? If I knew, then I could get out
    The murder you see is a mystery to me

    [Right voice:]
    Dear Mister Muse, fellow of wit and gentry
    Medieval ruse filling the shallow and empty
    Fools that duel, duel in pools

    [Left voice:]
    To Rembrandt and Oswald, to peanuts and ketchup, sanctimonious sycophants stir in the bushes, up to the stand with your foot on the Bible; as king, I must order and constantly arouse, if you swear to catch up and throw up and up-up, a king full of virgin and kiss me and spin it, excuse to willow and wander, dark wonders divest me of robes, sutures, Harry and pig meat, the fate of a nation, rests hard on your bosoms, the king on his throne, puts his hand down his robe, the torture of inverse and silkscreen and Harry, and set the tongue squealing the reverse and inverse

    [Right voice:]
    Tantalize poets with visions of grandeur, their faces turn blue with the reek of the compost, as the living try hard to retain what the dead lost, with double-dead sickness from writing at what cost and business and business and reverse and reverse and set the brain reeling the inverse and perverse

    [Left voice:]
    Objections suffice apelike and tactile bassoon
    Oboeing me cordon the virus' section
    Off to the left is what is not right

    [Right voice:]
    English arcane, tantamount here to frenzy
    Passing for me, lascivious elder passion
    Corpulent filth disguised as silk

    [Left voice:]
    Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the boredom, I shall poison the city and sink it with fire, for cordless and Harry and ape-pig and scissor, the messenger's wig seems fraught with desire, for blueberry picnics and pince-nez and magpies, the messenger's skirt, would you please hook it higher, for children and adults, all those under ninety, how truly disgusting. Would you please put it down? A stray in this fray is no condom worth saving, as king, I'm quite just, but it's just quite impossible, a robe and a robe and a robe and a bat, no double-class inverse could make lying worth dying

    [Right voice:]
    With cheap simian melodies, hillbilly outgush, for illiterate ramblings, for cheap understanding, for misunderstranding, the simple, the inverse, the compost, the reverse, the obtuse and stupid, and business and business, and cheap stupid lyrics, and simple mass reverse while the real thing is dying

    [Left voice:]
    Exit the pig, enter the owl and gorgeous
    King on the left, it on the right and primping
    Adjusting his nose as he reads from his scroll

    [Right voice:]
    Folksy knockwurst, peel back the skin of French
    And what do you find? Follicles intertwining
    Succulent prose wrapped up in robes

    [Left voice:]
    Off with his head, take his head from his neck off, requiring memories both lovely and guiltfree, put out his eyes, then cut his nose off, sanctimonius sycophants stir in the bushes, scoop out his brain, put a string where his ears were, all the king's horses and all the king's men, swing the whole mess at the end of the wire, scratch out his eyes with the tip of a razor, let the wire extend from the tip of a rose, Caroline, Caroline, Caroline, oh! but retains the remnants of what once was a nose, pass me my robe, fill my bath up with water

    [Right voice:]
    Jumpsuit and pigmeat and making his fortune, while making them happy with the inverse and obverse and making them happy and making them happy with the coy and the stupid, just another dumb lackey who puts out the one thing while singing the other, but the real thing's alone and it is no man's brother

    [Left voice:]
    No one knows no nose is good news and senseless
    Extend the wine, drink here a toast to selfless
    Ten-year-old port is perfect in court

    [Right voice:]
    Safety is nice, not an unwise word spoken
    Scary bad dreams made safe in lovely songs
    No doom or gloom allowed in this room

    [Left voice:]
    Casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, cascade and cyanide, Rachaminoff, Beethoven, skull-silly wagon and justice and perverse and reverse the inverse and inverse and inverse, blueberry catalog, questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due cry, to battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing on minstrels and choking on dirt, disease please seems the order of the day, please the king, please the king, please the king day, casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, point of order, return the king here to the ceiling

    [Right voice:]
    Oh, not to be whistled or studied or hummed or remembered at nights when the eye is alone, but to skewer and ravage and savage and split with the grace of a diamond then bellicose wit, to stun and to stagger with words as such stone, that those who do hear cannot again return home

    [Left voice:]
    Razzamatazz, there's nothing on my shoulder
    Lust is a must, shaving my head's made me bolder
    Will you kindly read what it was I brought thee?

    [Right voice:]
    Hello to Ray, hello to Godiva and Angel
    Who let you in? Isn't it nice, the party?
    Aren't the lights pretty at night?

    [Left voice:]
    Sick leaf and sorrow and pincers not scissors, regard and refrain from the daughters of marriage, regards for the elders and youngest in carriage, regard and regard for the inverse and perverse and obverse, and diverse, of reverse and reverse, regard from the sick, the dumb, and the camel from pump's storing water, like brain is too marrow to x-ray and filthy and cutting and then peeling to skin and to skin and to bone and to structure to livid and pallid and turgid and structured and structured and structured and structured and structured and regard and refrain, the sick and the dumb, inverse, reverse and perverse

    [Right voice:]
    Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the seething for writhing and reeling and two-bit reportage, for sick with the body and sinister holy, the drown burst blue babies now dead on the seashore, the valorous horseman, who hang from the ceiling, the pig on the carpet, the dusty pale jissom, that has no effect for the sick with the see-saw, the inverse, obverse converse, reverse of reverse the diverse and converse of reverse and perverse and sweet pyrotechnics, and let's have another of inverse, converse, diverse, perverse and reverse, hell's graveyard is damned as they chew on their brains, the slick and the scum, reverse, inverse and perverse

    [Left voice:]
    Plowing while it's done away
    Dumb and ready pig meat
    Sick upon the carpet
    Climb into the casket
    Safe within the parapet
    Sack is in the parapet
    Pigs are out and growling
    Slaughter by the seashore
    See the lifeguard drowning
    Sea is full of fishes
    Fishes full of china
    China plates are falling
    All fall down
    Sick and shiny carpet
    Lie before my eyes-eyes
    Lead me to the ceiling
    Walk upon the wall wall
    Tender as the green grass
    Drink the whisky horror
    See the young girls dancing
    Flies upon the beaches
    Beaches are for sailors
    Nuns across the sea-wall
    Black hood horseman raging
    Swordsman eating fire
    Fire on the carpet
    Set the house ablazing
    Seize and bring it flaming
    Gently to the ground ground
    Dizzy Bell Miss Fortune
    Fat and full of love-juice
    Drip it on the carpet
    Down below the fire hose
    Weep and whisky fortune
    Sail me to the moon, dear
    Drunken dungeon sailors
    Headless Roman horsemen
    The king and queen are empty
    Their heads are in the outhouse
    Fish upon the water
    Bowl upon the saviour
    Toothless wigged Laureate
    Plain and full of fancy
    Name upon a letterhead
    Impressing all the wheat germ
    Love you for a nickel
    Maul you for a quarter
    Set the casket flaming
    Do not go gentle blazing

    [Right voice:]
    Sick upon the staircase
    Sick upon the staircase
    Blood upon the pillow
    Climb into the parapet
    See the church bells gleaming
    Knife that scrapes a sick plate
    Dentures full of air holes
    The tailor couldn't mend straight
    Shoot her full of air holes
    Climbing up the casket
    Take me to the casket
    Teeth upon her red throat
    Screw me in the daisies
    Rip upon her holler
    Snip the seas fantastic
    Treat her like a sailor
    Full and free

    C.... ....

    Thank you Chuck. For those of us that really appreciate this song for what it is, we bow in the most sincere way. Listening to this song 15 years ago got me right where I am now, reading these lyrics you skillfully typed up. Keep up the vibes Chuck.

    C.... ....

    ChuckDeFuque Z

    C.... ....

    COULD YOU GO INTO MORE DETAIL ??

    C.... ....

    damn, my headphones are in the wrong ears

    C.... ....

    Chuck you are my hero man! Thank you so much for posting these lyrics! Chuck DeFuque for President..!

  60. P.... C....

    Does any one know off hand what System of a Down song sounds just like this?

    P.... C....

    Okay but theres a second one, as well, Ive listened to this more extensively and the Vocals are on a song, and the riff is too. So whats the song where serj is talking like this song.

    P.... C....

    Mary Magdalene
    Talking? You might be talking about Prison Song then. Half of their riffs sound the same.

  61. F.... M....

    This song got me hooked to Velvet Underground... love it.

  62. D.... N....

    Got to love the story behind this song.

  63. L.... g....

    fucking disturbing and awesome

  64. e.... D....

    I read a lot of crap here ....look at the title ! obviously the mind of a fucked up speed junkie going through periods of thought- storm and calm , unable to stop the inevitable murder about to spew forth from his overactive meaningless brain .....

  65. P.... ....

    I heard this album was more accessible, and that each band member was in this song, so I expected a story-song where each member of the band was part of a Mystery Inc. kind of group and tried to solve a murder mystery.
    The song is better then that, but I still wish my idea was what happened.

    P.... ....

    destroyernoah omg I thought the same when I read the Wikipedia article for the album

  66. S.... C....

    Without a doubt this is the VU's most underrated song

  67. T.... ....

    This is Dark psychedelia

  68. S.... A....

    This is a bop

  69. C.... J....

    They full set of their work was $20 through BMG(1995 or 1996). It sold well among my friend. Already had VU and Nico before the box set, traded it for "Slanted and Enchanted" by Pavement. Great trade. My friend of course bought the box set.

  70. C.... J....

    This is a good one to play in bars and make everyone angry.

    C.... J....

    Does it really? Why would they get angry?

  71. J.... ....

    scoop out his brain put a string where his ears were

  72. B.... T....

    It's like Chelsea Mystery

  73. S.... ....

    love this song. listened to it repeatedly while tripping once and it really through me for a loop

  74. A.... B....

    I personally feel that the only thing that makes this song enjoyable is Mo Tucker's voice.

    A.... B....

    Andy Boerger
    Lame.

    A.... B....

    @Alexander Yubari Doug Yule's voice, Sterling Morrison's voice, Lou Reed's voice, the guitar, the piano...

  75. v.... ....

    The Val Valentin Mix -: The Closet Mix, ?

  76. R.... M....

    sublime

  77. J.... A....

    absolute insanity

  78. M.... g....

    thank god for the piano part... relief.

  79. A.... J....

    This song sounds like something the avant garde group Pram would do. Rosie Cuckson and Mo Tucker sound so identical to one another.

    A.... J....

    i totally agree, btw i love pram

  80. C.... V....

    this is my favourite velvet underground song. it's... amazing

    C.... V....

    so very unknown that's the thing, love showing my alternative friends this gem

    C.... V....

    My sister played this for me once in her car, and I have never been able to get it out of my head. A masterpiece, but then a lot of stuff the Velvet Underground produced is.

  81. k.... ....

    Oh! Sweet heaven.

  82. D.... R....

    bought the album 20 years ago..still love it..always will remind me of growing up playing guitar.. beginning to see the light was one of the 1st songs I taught myself to play.. go Lou...

  83. T.... ....

    Reminds me a looooot of the album An Electric Storm by White Noise. The singing, the avant-gardism, the voices on left and right radio, the drumming, the psychedelic organ (or even the acid keyboard in general) and much more.

    T.... ....

    TheRedJokerrr Just listened to the White Noise album, out of curiosity, and holy shit! Thanks, man!

    T.... ....

    Ho nice haha I like the sharing of music like that. It's great to see that some actually take the time to discover new stuff.

    T.... ....

    yes and melodically a lot like "Love Without Sound." Reminded me of it a lot.

    T.... ....

    'and I give you a kiss'

  84. L.... D....

    Chop Suey?

    L.... D....

    ... no?

    L.... D....

    get out

    L.... D....

    Fuck Chop Suey. Seriously.

  85. a.... -....

    what the fuck is wrong with people that this song isn't more popular ????? i cant stop listening to it

    a.... -....

    Because people are generally morons who need not only their art, but their beliefs, spoon fed to them. Too much work to think for yourself it would seem

  86. B.... C....

    I was scared when in teh piano part (6:37) the first time i listened this album

    B.... C....

    Are you sure you don't mean around 6:31 when the piano slides erratically with that sound effect? At least that's what scared me too the first time.

    B.... C....

    afx,velvet uderground, zappa

  87. �.... �....

    Crazy. Castaneda. Mind splitting. Magical sixties. I wish I was born in fifties, not seventies.

  88. M.... W....

    [Left voice:]
    Plowing while it's done away
    Dumb and ready pig meat
    Sick upon the carpet
    Climb into the casket
    Safe within the parapet
    Sack is in the parapet
    Pigs are out and growling
    Slaughter by the seashore
    See the lifeguard drowning
    Sea is full of fishes
    Fishes full of china
    China plates are falling
    All fall down
    Sick and shiny carpet
    Lie before my eyes-eyes
    Lead me to the ceiling
    Walk upon the wall wall
    Tender as the green grass
    Drink the whisky horror
    See the young girls dancing
    Flies upon the beaches
    Beaches are for sailors
    Nuns across the sea-wall
    Black hood horseman raging
    Swordsman eating fire
    Fire on the carpet
    Set the house ablazing
    Seize and bring it flaming
    Gently to the ground ground
    Dizzy Bell Miss Fortune
    Fat and full of love-juice
    Drip it on the carpet
    Down below the fire hose
    Weep and whisky fortune
    Sail me to the moon, dear
    Drunken dungeon sailors
    Headless Roman horsemen
    The king and queen are empty
    Their heads are in the outhouse
    Fish upon the water
    Bowl upon the saviour
    Toothless wigged Laureate
    Plain and full of fancy
    Name upon a letterhead
    Impressing all the wheat germ
    Love you for a nickel
    Maul you for a quarter
    Set the casket flaming
    Do not go gentle blazing

    [Right voice:]
    Sick upon the staircase
    Sick upon the staircase
    Blood upon the pillow
    Climb into the parapet
    See the church bells gleaming
    Knife that scrapes a sick plate
    Dentures full of air holes
    The tailor couldn't mend straight
    Shoot her full of air holes
    Climbing up the casket
    Take me to the casket
    Teeth upon her red throat
    Screw me in the daisies
    Rip upon her holler
    Snip the seas fantastic
    Treat her like a sailor
    Full and free and nervous
    Out to make his fortune
    Either this or that way
    Sickly or in good health
    Piss upon a building
    Like a dog in training
    Teach to heel or holler
    Yodel on a sing song
    Down upon the carpet
    Tickle polyester
    Sick within the parapet
    Screwing for a dollar
    Sucking on a fire-hose
    Chewing on a rubber line
    Tied to chairs and rare bits
    Pay another player
    Oh you're such a good lad
    Here's another dollar
    Tie him to the bedpost
    Sick with witches' covens
    Craving for a raw meat
    Bones upon the metal
    Sick upon the circle
    Down upon the carpet
    Down upon the carpet
    Down below the parapet
    Waiting for your bidding
    Pig upon the carpet
    Tumenescent railroad
    Neuro-anaesthesia analog
    Ready for a good look
    Drooling at the birches
    Swinging from the birches
    Succulent Nebraska

    M.... W....

    Matthew Music thank you!

  89. A.... S....

    Ok first this trips a circut in my brain second on the album cover what is that creepy face to the far right

    A.... S....

    +Stephanie la I ment to say left there's just a dudes face with glowing eyes

    A.... S....

    +Andrew Staal Oh! Haha! That's just doug yule hiding out in the back

    A.... S....

    hahahahaha

    A.... S....

    Yeah, this cover is supposed to depict a band cheerfully passing time but irremediably conveys an eerie, strange vibe into it. This song definitely helps to feeling it.

    A.... S....

    But there is a face to the right, you can just barely see two menacing eyes. I'm not gonna get any sleep because of you

  90. P.... P....

    This song is the definition of avant-garde.
    Menacingly fantastic.

    P.... P....

    +Parched Pinemarten I wouldn't go as far as to say this song is the synoym of avant-garde, though I agree that is "menacingly fantastic".
    but hey thats just my opinion man!

    P.... P....

    Laucha Gutiérrez
    It has many elements of avant garde I would say.

    P.... P....

    Topo
    Yeah, but it probably isn't enough to call it the "synonym" of avant-garde.

    P.... P....

    You're confusing it with Sister Ray.

  91. O.... B....

    Esto es llevar la música a otro nivel.

    O.... B....

    Prefiero pink floyd

    O.... B....

    TomorrowNeverKnows
    Gay.

    O.... B....

    tu foto, FLCL :)

  92. A.... ....

    I just got this song on vinyl and just realized that there are two voices, one on the left earphone, one on the right. This was in the sixties, people. THIS WAS BACK WHEN MUSIC WAS ART.

    A.... ....

    AFTimeLord Because LSD was still legalized?

    A.... ....

    You don't need to have it on vinyl to notice that. If anything that's just a small trick, it doesn't make the song any better.

    A.... ....

    chase ruel
    "Yeah man check out these bands like Radiohead, Death Grips, Neutral Milk Hotel and the Swans you probably haven't listened to them already :)"

    A.... ....

    @Trent King you must be smoking plenty of crack these days my friend

    A.... ....

    @Alexander Yubari they all suck big donkey cock

  93. D.... M....

    I bought it long ago .. as with a lot of things. down the can with the repo man lol

  94. P.... N....

    this song makes me feel evil

  95. D.... R....

    somebody got lou reed mixed up with captain beefheart

    D.... R....

    No I didn't, I know the difference between Velvet, Beefheart,Zappa etc.

  96. S.... C....

    so much strokes in the intro

    S.... C....

    Because those punks have no originality

    S.... C....

    You're deaf.

    S.... C....

    Sonic Youth ?

  97. D.... M....

    This is truly a unique composition. 

    D.... M....

    I'M THE TRASHMAN

    D.... M....

    No, it isn't.

    D.... M....

    @Traimax Why?

  98. H.... S....

    how is this not more popular???

    H.... S....

    let it be obscure!

    H.... S....

    The moment that my family appreciated Pink Floyd (the wall) I realized that it was a bad album. Difference MUST be!

    H.... S....

    One of Pink Floyd's worst albums... got kicked off a PF Facebook page for saying it...

    H.... S....

    Hoel Spiers
    It's too good to be populair

    H.... S....

    wanted to like your comment but saw it was at 69 likes so i didnt

  99. A.... R....

    Brilliant group, still ahead of their time. After splitting your mind in two, finish it with Trout Mask Replica, an album I'm still trying to understand.

    A.... R....

    The Velvet and The Captain: all the music a man needs.

    A.... R....

    Nothing difficult to understand. It just fucking sucks

    A.... R....

    Dan G Eat shit kid. Leave avant-garde music that you clearly don't understand for us adults.