Lou Reed - The City in the Sea / Shadow текст песни

Текст песни The City in the Sea / Shadow - Lou Reed




Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city
Alone
Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city
Alone
Their shrines and palaces are not like ours
They do not tremble and rot
Eaten with time
Death has reared himself a throne
Lifted by forgotten winds
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie
A crown of stars
In a strange city
Alone
A heaven God does not condemn
But the everlasting shadow
Makes mockery of it all
No holy rays come down
Lights from the lurid deep sea
Stream up the turrets silently
Up thrones, up arbors
Of sculpted ivy and stone flowers
Up domes, up spires
Kingly halls all are melancholy shrines
The columns, frieze and entablature
Chokingly shockingly intertwined
The mast the viol and the vine
Twisted
There amid no earthly moans
Hell rises from a thousand thrones
Does reverence to death
And death does give his undivided time
There are open temples
And graves on a level with the waves
Death looms and looks
Huge
Gigantic
There is a ripple
Now a wave
Towers thrown aside
Sinking in the dull tide
The waves glowing redder
The very hours losing their breath
All the cunning stars
Watching fitfully over night after night of
Matchless ... sleep
Matched only with the whole of dream ...
The tell-tale beating of the heart
The ... breath
The desire, the pose
One poses upon the precipice
To fall to run to dive to tumble to fall down
Down into the spiral down and then
One sees one's own death
One sees one committing murder or atrocious violent acts
And then across the shadow
Not of man or God
But the shadow resting upon the brazen doorway
There were seven of us there
Who saw the shadow as it came out from among the draperies
But we did not dare behold it
We looked down into the depths of the mirror of ebony
And the apparition spoke
"I am a shadow
And I dwell in the catacombs
Which border
The country of illusion
Hard by the dim plains of wishing"
And then did we start shuddering
Starting from our seats
Trembling
For the tones in the voice of the shadow
Were not the tones of any one man
But of a multitude of beings
And varying in their cadences
From syllable to syllable
Fell duskily upon our ears in the well
Remembered and familiar accents
Of a thousand departed friends



Авторы: Lou Reed


Lou Reed - The Sire Years: Complete Albums Box
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1 Strawman
2 Dirty Blvd.
3 Hello It's Me
4 Rouge
5 Overture
6 Fire Music
7 Dorita (The Spirit)
8 A Thousand Departed Friends
9 Guardian Angel
10 Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
11 Every Frog Has His Day
12 A Wild Being from Birth
13 The Cask
14 Vanishing Act
15 Imp of the Perverse
16 Tell Tale Heart, Pt. 2
17 The Tell Tale Heart, Pt. 1
18 Broadway Song
19 Balloon
20 The City in the Sea / Shadow
21 The Valley of Unrest
22 Big Sky
23 Rock Minuet
24 Tatters
25 Modern Dance
26 Ecstasy
27 Mystic Child
28 Paranoia Key of E
29 Hang on to Your Emotions
30 Trade In
31 NYC Man
32 Egg Cream
33 Perfect Day (Live Version)
34 Street Hassle - Live
35 Dirty Blvd. (Live)
36 Dirty Blvd. (Live Version)
37 The Courtly Orangutans
38 What's Good (The Thesis)
39 Busload of Faith
40 The Bed
41 The Raven
42 Set the Twilight Reeling
43 Kicks (Live Version)
44 Riptide
45 The Kids (Live Version)
46 Coney Island Baby (Live Version)
47 Riptide (Live Version)
48 Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
49 Venus In Furs - Live
50 Original Wrapper (Live Version)
51 Starlight
52 Work
53 Open House
54 Smalltown
55 Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
56 Hold On
57 Sick Of You
58 Beginning of a Great Adventure
59 There Is No Time
60 Endless Cycle
61 Romeo Had Juliette
62 Dreamin' - Escape
63 Forever Changed
64 Turning Time Around
65 Talking Book - Live Version
66 White Prism
67 Into The Divine - Live Version
68 Mad
69 Warrior King - Revenge
70 Change
71 Future Farmers Of America
72 Baton Rouge
73 Call On Me
74 Xmas In February
75 Nobody but You
76 Perfect Day
77 Hop Frog (feat. David Bowie)
78 Heroin - Live
79 How Do You Think It Feels (Live)
80 Guilty (feat. Ornette Coleman)
81 Blind Rage
82 Halloween Parade
83 Burning Embers
84 Last Great American Whale
85 Science Of The Mind
86 Annabel Lee/The Bells
87 Dime Store Mystery
88 Tripitena's Speech
89 Style It Takes
90 Trouble With Classicists
91 Advice - Live
92 Smalltown - Live
93 Faces And Names
94 Tell It To Your Heart - Live
95 Images
96 Men Of Good Fortune - Live
97 Slip Away (A Warning)
98 It Wasn't Me
99 Vanishing Act - Live
100 I Believe
101 Ecstasy - Live
102 The Day John Kennedy Died - Live
103 A Dream
104 The Bed - Live
105 Revien Cherie - Live
106 Power and Glory - The Situation
107 Magician - Internally
108 Sunday Morning - Live
109 Sword of Damocles - Externally
110 All Tomorrow's Parties - Live
111 Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)
112 Call On Me - Live
113 Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
114 The Raven - Live
115 Set The Twilight Reeling - Live
116 No Chance - Regret
117 Candy Says - Live
118 Gassed And Stoned - Loss
119 Power And Glory Pat II (Magic Transformation)
120 Magic And Loss (Summation)
121 Finish Line
122 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part II - Live
123 Hookywooky
124 The Proposition
125 Adventurer
126 I'll Be Your Mirror (Live Version)
127 Vicious (Live Version)
128 Busload Of Faith - Live Version
129 New Sensations - Live Version
130 Why Do You Talk (Live Version)
131 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part II (Recorded Live July 4th, 1995)
132 Like A Possum
133 The Conqueror Worm
134 Old Poe
135 Prologue
136 Edgar Allan Poe
137 The Fall Of The House Of Usher




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