I'M Waiting For The Man (May 1965 Alternate Version)
Lou Reed
2:07Wrap your troubles in dreams Words, music, lyrics Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay Speak not of misfortune Speak not of your woes Just steel yourself for holy death Crouching by the door Writhe and sway to music's pain Searing with asides Caress death with a lover's touch For it shall be your pride Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay Purple is to yellow As sunlight is to rain Happiness in death You'll find loveliness in pain Slash the golden whip It snaps across the lovers' sides The earth trembles without remorse Preparing for to die Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay Salty ocean waves and sprays Come crashing to the shore Bullies kick and kill young loves Down on barroom floors The gleaming knife cuts early Through the midnight air Cutting entrails in its path Blood runs without care Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay Violence echoes through the land And in heart of every man The knife, it stabs existent wounds Pus runs through matted hair Excrements filters through the brain Hatred bends the spine Filth covers the body pores To be cleansed by dying time Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay