Monday 27 October 2014

Sticking With Lou

Part of the lovesongs for the dead, a reflection on the living series


For Lou Reed (a Duet)

'If I could make this world as pure
And strange as what I see
I'd put you in the mirror
I keep in front of me
I keep in front of me'
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Dun-dundund
Dun-dundundun


The light before dawn

The dark before dusk

The sea in the ocean

The ocean in the sea

A burning up ember

A melting flake of snow



Dun-dundundun
Dun-dundundun


You, you can be king

You, you can be queen

You can be kind

You can be mean

You could be winter in Bradford

You could be summer and Spain

You could be lost at sea on a ship

You could be lost in the sky in a plane

My head underwater

My head in the clouds

Innocent and reckless

Sinful and calculated

Full of the joys of spring

Under the leaves in autumn

The red red robin

The happy little bluebird

Over the rainbow

Under a bridge

The light in the oven

The light inside a fridge



Dun-dundundun

Dun-dundundun


The coal for the eyes of my snowman

The buttons for the eyes of my ragdoll

Your head in the gutter

Your eyes looking at the stars

A stitch in time

The seamless now and then

My today and tomorrow

My days outside of days

A cellist in Venice

A fiddler in Rome

Like a hole in the head

The wholeness of a hole


Dun-dundundun

Dun-dundundun


The deep dazzling darkness

The illuminating light

The nighttime in the day

The daytime in the night

The right place at the wrong time

The wrong place at the right time

Nighttime

And

Lighttime

You, you are my sunshine

You, you're the light shining on my moon

Like the ocean, under you I'll swoon

Waltzing to eternity's old tune


Dun-dundundun

Dun-dundundun


I'll be your mirror

I'll be your mirror

I'll be your mirror

I'll be your mirror

I'll be your mirror

I'll be your mirror

I'll be your

I'll be your

I'll be your

I'll be your

I'll be

I'll be

I'll be

I'll be

I'll be

I'll be

Your mirror

Mirror

I'll be 

Your mirror

Mirror

I'll be your mirror

I'll be your mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mi

Mi

Mi

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Ror

Ror

Ror

Ror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror

Mirror


Dun-dundundun

Dun-dundundun

Dun

Dun

Dun

Dun

Dun-dundundun

Dun-dundundun


Dun-dundundun






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