There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

This is definitely one of his best ever. That line never fails to pack a punch.

Pretty much everything on Take No Prisoners, but to pick only one, this one is pretty good: “Don’t you hate it, those Academy awards man? Here’s fucken Barbra Streisand…’I wanna thank all the little people…there’s too many little people I can’t get their names’. Fuck her and the little people, I don’t like big people…fuck short people and tall people I like middle people. People from Wyoming. You ever meet somebody from Wyoming? Not me.”

So many favorites, but this one from “Trade In” is speaking to me now: “He actually was murdered, I had taken him apart But when I put him back together, I couldn't find his heart It was resting underneath a chair, in a bed of bright tin foil If I pulled back the flaps, I could still see it beat, I could still hear his voice uncoil”

“Who tightened this mic stand..Godzilla”

DONT FUCK ME WITH ME MICHAEL!

"You know some people got no choice and they can never find a voice to talk with that they can even call their own, so the first thing that they see that allows them the right to be, why they follow it. You know what that's called? Bad luck."

This is the one for me. Never forgot it.

“Between thought and expression there lies a lifetime”

For some reason the fourth verse of Some Kinda Love has always been my favorite. Get it stuck in my head all the time. “Put jelly on your shoulder, let us do what you fear most/ That from which you recoil but which still makes your eyes moist/ Put jelly on your shoulder, baby, lie down upon the carpet/ Between thought and expression let us now kiss the culprit” Zero abstraction of what it’s literally about but still manages to work in a bunch of really clever little ideas. That’s great songwriting.

It gets stuck in my head all the time as well

Songwriting on that album is unparalleled

Then comes pancake factor No.1 Eyeliner rose hips and lip gloss such fun... I don't know why but I love this part

Curtains laced with diamonds, Dear for you.

“Manhattan's sinking like a rock, into the filthy Hudson, what a shock They wrote a book about it, they said it was like Ancient Rome. The perfume burned his eyes, holding tightly to her thighs and something flickered for a minute and then it vanished and was gone”

Waves of fear: I hate my own smell I know where I must be I must be in hell

when you've done so much meth the paranoia has almost completely taken control and it's coming out in your sweat possibly my favorite lou song, and definitely my favorite guitar solo in his entire catalogue, Quinn was on fire that entire album

And of course you're a bore - but in that you're not charmless

Who tightened this mic stand? Godzilla? I either need to grow an inch or get a boyfriend GET A WHAT? A boyfriend - can't you fuckin hear, what's wrong widjoo?

I would cut my legs and tits off when I think of Boris Karloff and Kinski in the dark of the moon. One of my favourite opening lines for any album.

Electricity comes from other planets

From Future farmers of America : I was born on the dark cusp of twilight. My father was dark, my mother was light.

But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet And just lay her out In the darkest street And by morning she's just another hit and run

Now me, I’ve tried a million tricks; to make life hold, to make it fix.

“So long world, you play too rough” It always seems to float into my head when I want to get away from it all.

"Some people say alcohol makes you less lucid/And I think that's true if you're kind of stupid"

i remember you,I remember me, I remember how things used to be, I remember I remember you......

You know, some people got no choice And they can never find a voice To talk with that they can even call their own So the first thing that they see That allows them the right to be Why they follow it You know, it's called bad luck

Dead, I hope

Classic

“I wanna boogie wit choo…”

I want to count to five Turn around and find myself gone Fly me through the storm and wake up in the calm Magician (internally)

Swoop swoop oh baby rock rock

I sing this all the time ♥️

One of the best all time deliveries of a line in a song in my opponion. The epitome of cool

Indeed

My week beats your year .

That

His entire interview from Lou Reed Meets The Press 1974. Classic. It’s on YouTube. The one with his bleach blonde hair. Check it out.

https://youtu.be/IeMIWCxHgQk?si=adFEt3y8-ghaSVDL

Heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to me when you smile.

My mother said she saw him in Chinatown, but you can't always trust your mother

Disco Disco mystic

Would you pull me up Would you drop the mental bullet Would you pull me by the arm up Would you still kiss my lips Hiccup, the dream is over Get the coffee, turn the lights on Say hello to junior dad The greatest disappointment Age withered him and changed him Into junior dad Psychic savagery

I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly Over my shoulder I'm gonna watch them pass me by Maybe when I'm older What do you think I'd see If I could walk away from me?

Actually any line from “What’s Good?”

“Yesterday Daisy Mae and Biff were groovin on the street” I named my dogs Daisy Mae and Biff after this line so I can sing it to them lol

If Hollywood doesn't call us, we'll be sick.

“They say he never had an enemy … His was a greatness to behold.” “And I think suddenly of you. And blink my eyes in fright. And rush off to the home of the brave. And here’s to the home of the brave. The home of the brave.”

Wash the razor in the rain Let me luxuriate in pain Please don't set me free Death means a lot to me

But when you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot

All the people are dancing and they're having such fun I wish it could happen to me But if you close the door I'd never have to see the day again

"when they shoot you up with thorazine on Cristal smoke, you choke like a son of a gun..." Kill your sons

I don't know just what it's all about But put on your red pajamas and find out Really, though, all of "Some Kinda Love." Wry, playful, poetic, life-enhancing.

And families who live out in the suburbs/often make each other cry

You want me to hit you with a stick But all I've got's a guitar pick

I love women, I think they're great They're a solace to a world in a terrible state They're a balm for the eye and a blessing for the soul What a nightmare in this world to have no women

You're gonna reap just what you sow.

I thought I was someone else, someone good.

It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me "Stick a fork in their ass and turn 'em over, they're done" Last great American Whale

You better hit her!

pick up the pieces that make up your life, maybe someday you’ll have a wife and then alimony.. can’t you see?

i love the lyrics in ennui