Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale Songtexte

Songtexte Last Great American Whale - Lou Reed




They say he didn′t have an enemy
His was a greatness to behold
He was the last surviving progeny
The last one on this side of the world
He measured a half mile from tip to tail
Silver and black with powerful fins
They say he could split a mountain in two
That's how we got the Grand Canyon
Last great American whale
Last great American whale
Last great American whale
Last great American whale
Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes
Some say they saw him off of Florida
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
But you can′t always trust your mother
Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day
The lighthouse glows ghostly there at night
The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son
And he'd been on death row since 1958
The mayor′s kid was a rowdy pig
Spit on Indians and lots worse
The old chief buried a hatchet in his head
Life compared to death for him seemed worse
The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing
And tried to conjure up a storm or rain
The harbor parted, the great whale sprang full up
And caused a huge tidal wave
The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief
The tribe let out a roar
The whites were drowned, the browns and reds set free
But sadly one thing more
Some local yokel member of the NRA
Kept a bazooka in his living room
And thinking he had the chief in his sights
Blew the whale′s brains out with a lead harpoon
Last great American whale
Last great American whale
Last great American whale
Last great American whale
Well Americans don't care for much of anything
Land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
With human life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don′t care too much for beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They′ll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
And complain if they can't swim
They say things are done for the majority
Don′t believe half of what you see and none of what you hear
It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me,
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done"



Autor(en): Lou Reed


Lou Reed - The Studio Album Collection: 1989-2000
Album The Studio Album Collection: 1989-2000
Veröffentlichungsdatum
07-04-2015

1 Dreamin' - Escape
2 Forever Changed
3 Turning Time Around
4 White Prism
5 Nobody but You
6 Xmas In February
7 Baton Rouge
8 Future Farmers Of America
9 Warrior King - Revenge
10 Mad
11 Romeo Had Juliette
12 Endless Cycle
13 There Is No Time
14 Beginning of a Great Adventure
15 Sick Of You
16 Hold On
17 Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
18 Smalltown
19 Open House
20 Work
21 Starlight
22 Egg Cream
23 NYC Man
24 Trade In
25 Hang on to Your Emotions
26 Paranoia Key of E
27 Mystic Child
28 Ecstasy
29 Modern Dance
30 Tatters
31 Rock Minuet
32 Big Sky
33 Dorita (The Spirit)
34 Rouge
35 Hello It's Me
36 Dirty Blvd.
37 Strawman
38 What's Good (The Thesis)
39 Busload of Faith
40 Set the Twilight Reeling
41 Riptide
42 Magic and Loss - The Summation
43 Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
44 Halloween Parade
45 Last Great American Whale
46 Dime Store Mystery
47 Style It Takes
48 Trouble With Classicists
49 Faces And Names
50 Images
51 Slip Away (A Warning)
52 It Wasn't Me
53 I Believe
54 A Dream
55 Power and Glory - The Situation
56 Magician - Internally
57 Sword of Damocles - Externally
58 Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)
59 Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
60 No Chance - Regret
61 Gassed and Stoked - Loss
62 Power and Glory, Part II (Magic Transformation)
63 Finish Line
64 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. 2 [Live LP Version]
65 Hookywooky
66 The Propostion
67 Adventurer
68 Like A Possum




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