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Lyrics for The City In The Sea / Shadow by LOU REED:
| | | Artist: | LOU REED |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The City In The Sea / Shadow | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 81 | | | | Lyrics: | 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
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