Lou Reed - Original Wrapper (Live Version) Lyrics

Lyrics Original Wrapper (Live Version) - Lou Reed




The "Original wrapper"
I was sittin' home on the west end
Watchin' cable TV with a TV friend
We were watchin' the news, the world's in a mess
The poor and the hungry, a world in distress
Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle
Better check that sausage, before you put it in the waffle and
While you're at it, check what's in the batter
Make sure that candy's in the "Original wrapper"
Hey, pitcher, better check that batter
Make sure that candy's in the Original Wrapper
Hey, pitcher, better check that batter
Make Reagan, hey give me the wrapper
White against white, black against Jew
It seems like it's 1942
Baby sits in front of MTV
He was watching violent fantasies
While dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport
Then he finds his heroes are all coked up
Then, taste the original, the same old story
The politics of hate in a new surrounding
Hate if it's good and hate if it's bad
Whoa, whoa, whoa don't make he mad
I'll keep yours, baby I'll keep mine
Nothing sacred and nothing divine
The father hate me, we're going throttle
Better check that sausage, before you put it in the waffle
While you're at it and while you're at it
And while you're at it
Make sure you get better check that batter
Make sure the candy's in the "Original wrapper"
Go Michael
I was born in the United States
I grew up hard but I grew up straight
I saw a lack of morals and a lack of concern
A feeling that there's nowhere to turn
Yippies, hippies and upwardly mobile yuppies
Don't you treat me like I'm some dumb lackey
Murderer lives while the victims die
I'd much rather see it an eye for an eye
Heart for heart, and brain for brain
If this makes you feel a little insane
Kick up your heels, turn the music up loud
Pick up your guitar and look out at the crowd
Say, don't mean fail, sanctimonious life
Got me nervous and little pugnacious
Lugubrious so I give a salutation
And rock on out to beat really stupid
Ohh poop, ah doo and how do you do
You gonna hip hop gonna bop till I drop full throttle
Better batter
Make sure the candy's in the "Original wrapper"
Hey, pitcher, better check that batter
Make sure the candy's in the "Original wrapper"
Hey, would you better check that batter
Make sure the candy's in the "Original wrapper"
The "Original wrapper"



Writer(s): Lou Reed


Lou Reed - The Sire Years: The Solo Collection
Album The Sire Years: The Solo Collection
date of release
25-03-2014

1 Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
2 The Kids (Live Version)
3 Riptide
4 Magic and Loss - The Summation
5 Set the Twilight Reeling
6 The Bed
7 Busload of Faith
8 What's Good (The Thesis)
9 Dirty Blvd. (Live Version)
10 Perfect Day (Live Version)
11 Strawman
12 Dirty Blvd.
13 Rouge
14 Dorita (The Spirit)
15 Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
16 Vanishing Act
17 The Valley of Unrest
18 Big Sky
19 Rock Minuet
20 Modern Dance
21 Ecstasy
22 Mystic Child
23 Paranoia Key of E
24 Hang on to Your Emotions
25 Trade In
26 NYC Man
27 Egg Cream
28 Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
29 Hold On
30 Sick Of You
31 Beginning of a Great Adventure
32 There Is No Time
33 Endless Cycle
34 Romeo Had Juliette
35 Dreamin' - Escape
36 Turning Time Around
37 Talking Book - Live Version
38 White Prism
39 Into The Divine - Live Version
40 Mad
41 Warrior King - Revenge
42 Change
43 Future Farmers Of America
44 Baton Rouge
45 Call On Me
46 Xmas In February
47 I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
48 Perfect Day
49 Hop Frog (feat. David Bowie)
50 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. II [Live Version]
51 Tatters
52 Balloon
53 Broadway Song
54 Guardian Angel
55 A Thousand Departed Friends
56 Overture
57 The Raven
58 Kicks (Live Version)
59 Coney Island Baby (Live Version)
60 Riptide (Live Version)
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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