Lou Reed - Power and Glory - The Situation Songtexte

Songtexte Power and Glory - The Situation - Lou Reed




I was visited by The Power and The Glory
I was visited by a majestic hymn
Great bolts of lightning lighting up the sky
Electricity flowing through my veins
I was captured by a larger moment
I was seized by divinity′s hot breath
Gorged like a lion on experience
Powerful from life
I wanted all of it
Not just some of it
All of it
I saw a man turn into a bird
I saw a bird turn into a tiger
I saw a man hang from a cliff by the tips of his toes
In the jungles of the Amazon
I saw a man put a red hot needle through his eye
Turn into a crow and fly through the trees
Swallow hot coals and breathe out flames
And I wanted this to happen to me
I wanted all of it
All of it, all of it
Not just some of it
All of it
We saw the moon vanish into his pocket
We saw the stars disappear from sight
We saw him walk across water into the sun
While bathed in eternal light
We spewed out questions waiting for answers
Creating legends, religions and myths
Books, stories, movies and plays
All trying to explain this
I want all of it
All of it, all of it
Not just some of it
I saw a great man turn into a little child
The cancer reduced him to dust
His voice growing weak as he fought for his life
With a bravery few men know
I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs
Trying to stop the cancerous spread
And it made me think of Leda and The Swan
And gold being made from lead
The same power that burned Hiroshima
Causing three legged babies and death
Shrunk to the size of a nickel
To help him regain his breath
And I was struck by The Power and The Glory
I was visited by a majestic Him
Great bolts of lightning lighting up the sky
As the radiation flowed through him
I wanted all of it
Not just some of it
All of it
All of it, all of it, all of it



Autor(en): Lou Reed, Mike Rathke


Lou Reed - The Sire Years: The Solo Collection
Album The Sire Years: The Solo Collection
Veröffentlichungsdatum
25-03-2014

1 Riptide (Live Version)
2 The Raven
3 The Bed
4 Rouge
5 Overture
6 Guardian Angel
7 Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
8 Vanishing Act
9 Balloon
10 The Valley of Unrest
11 Rock Minuet
12 Ecstasy
13 Paranoia Key of E
14 Turning Time Around
15 Future Farmers Of America
16 Call On Me
17 I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
18 Perfect Day
19 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. II [Live Version]
20 Hop Frog (feat. David Bowie)
21 Xmas In February
22 Baton Rouge
23 Change
24 Warrior King - Revenge
25 Mad
26 Into The Divine - Live Version
27 White Prism
28 Talking Book - Live Version
29 Dreamin' - Escape
30 Romeo Had Juliette
31 Endless Cycle
32 There Is No Time
33 Beginning of a Great Adventure
34 Sick Of You
35 Hold On
36 Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
37 Egg Cream
38 NYC Man
39 Trade In
40 Hang on to Your Emotions
41 Mystic Child
42 Modern Dance
43 Tatters
44 Big Sky
45 Broadway Song
46 A Thousand Departed Friends
47 Dorita (The Spirit)
48 Dirty Blvd.
49 Strawman
50 Perfect Day (Live Version)
51 Dirty Blvd. (Live Version)
52 What's Good (The Thesis)
53 Busload of Faith
54 Set the Twilight Reeling
55 Kicks (Live Version)
56 Magic and Loss - The Summation
57 Riptide
58 The Kids (Live Version)
59 Coney Island Baby (Live Version)
60 Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
61 Original Wrapper (Live Version)
62 Halloween Parade
63 Last Great American Whale
64 Dime Store Mystery
65 Power and Glory - The Situation
66 Magician - Internally
67 Sword of Damocles - Externally
68 Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)
69 Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
70 No Chance - Regret
71 Gassed and Stoked - Loss
72 Power and Glory, Pt. II - Magic - Transformation
73 Finish Line
74 Hookywooky
75 The Propostion
76 Adventurer
77 I'll Be Your Mirror (Live Version)
78 Vicious (Live Version)
79 Busload Of Faith - Live Version
80 New Sensations - Live Version
81 Why Do You Talk (Live Version)
82 Sex With Your Parents (Live Version)
83 Like A Possum
84 Edgar Allan
85 Blind Rage
86 Burning Embers
87 Science Of The Mind
88 Tripitena's Speech




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