The Velvet Underground "The Murder Mystery" lyrics

The Murder Mystery

[Left voice:]Candy-screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring memories both lovely and guiltfree, lurid and lovely with twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laughter, laconic giggles, ennui fort the passions, in order to justify most spurious desires, rectify moments, most serious and urgent to hail upon the face of most odious time, requiring replies most facile and vacuous with words nearly singed, with the heartbeat of passions, spew forth with the grace of a tart going under subject of a great concern, noble origin

[Right voice:]Denigrate obtuse and active, verbs, pronouns, skewer the sieve of the optical sewer, release the handle that holds all the gates up, puncture the eyeballs that seep all the muck up, read all the books and the people worth reading and still see the muck on the sky of the ceiling

[Left voice:]Please raise the flag, rosy red carpet envyEnglish used here; this messenger is nervousIt's not fun at all out here in the hall

[Right voice:]Mister Moonlight, succulent smooth and gorgeousIsn't it nice? We're number one and so forthIsn't it sweet being unique

[Left voice:]For screeching and yelling and various offenses, lower the queen and bend her over the tub; against the state, the country, the commitee; hold her head under the water, please, for an hour, for groveling and spewing and various offenses; puncture the bloat with the wing of a sparrow, the inverse, the obverse, the converse, the reverse, the sharpening wing of the edge of a sparrow, for suitable reckonings too numerous to mention, as the queen is fat, she is devoured by rats; there is one way to skin a cat or poison a rat; it is here forth, hear to three, forthirightly stated

[Right voice:]Relent and obverse and inverse and perverse and reverse the inverse of perverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and chop it and pluck it and cut it and spit it and sew it to joy on the edge of a cyclop and spin it to rage on the edge of a cylindrical minute

[Left voice:]Put down that rag simpering, callow and moroseWho let you in? If I knew, then I could get outThe murder you see is a mystery to me

[Right voice:]Dear Mister Muse, fellow of wit and gentryMedieval ruse filling the shallow and emptyFools that duel, duel in pools

[Left voice:]To Rembrandt and Oswald, to peanuts and ketchup, sanctimonious sycophants stir in the bushes, up to the stand with your foot on the Bible; as king, I must order and constantly arouse, if you swear to catch up and throw up and up-up, a king full of virgin and kiss me and spin it, excuse to willow and wander, dark wonders divest me of robes, sutures, Harry and pig meat, the fate of a nation, rests hard on your bosoms, the king on his throne, puts his hand down his robe, the torture of inverse and silkscreen and Harry, and set the tongue squealing the reverse and inverse

[Right voice:]Tantalize poets with visions of grandeur, their faces turn blue with the reek of the compost, as the living try hard to retain what the dead lost, with double-dead sickness from writing at what cost and business and business and reverse and reverse and set the brain reeling the inverse and perverse

[Left voice:]Objections suffice apelike and tactile bassoonOboeing me cordon the virus' sectionOff to the left is what is not right

[Right voice:]English arcane, tantamount here to frenzyPassing for me, lascivious elder passionCorpulent filth disguised as silk

[Left voice:]Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the boredom, I shall poison the city and sink it with fire, for cordless and Harry and ape-pig and scissor, the messenger's wig seems fraught with desire, for blueberry picnics and pince-nez and magpies, the messenger's skirt, would you please hook it higher, for children and adults, all those under ninety, how truly disgusting. Would you please put it down? A stray in this fray is no condom worth saving, as king, I'm quite just, but it's just quite impossible, a robe and a robe and a robe and a bat, no double-class inverse could make lying worth dying

[Right voice:]With cheap simian melodies, hillbilly outgush, for illiterate ramblings, for cheap understanding, for misunderstranding, the simple, the inverse, the compost, the reverse, the obtuse and stupid, and business and business, and cheap stupid lyrics, and simple mass reverse while the real thing is dying

[Left voice:]Exit the pig, enter the owl and gorgeousKing on the left, it on the right and primpingAdjusting his nose as he reads from his scroll

[Right voice:]Folksy knockwurst, peel back the skin of FrenchAnd what do you find? Follicles intertwiningSucculent prose wrapped up in robes

[Left voice:]Off with his head, take his head from his neck off, requiring memories both lovely and guiltfree, put out his eyes, then cut his nose off, sanctimonius sycophants stir in the bushes, scoop out his brain, put a string where his ears were, all the king's horses and all the king's men, swing the whole mess at the end of the wire, scratch out his eyes with the tip of a razor, let the wire extend from the tip of a rose, Caroline, Caroline, Caroline, oh! but retains the remnants of what once was a nose, pass me my robe, fill my bath up with water

[Right voice:]Jumpsuit and pigmeat and making his fortune, while making them happy with the inverse and obverse and making them happy and making them happy with the coy and the stupid, just another dumb lackey who puts out the one thing while singing the other, but the real thing's alone and it is no man's brother

[Left voice:]No one knows no nose is good news and senselessExtend the wine, drink here a toast to selflessTen-year-old port is perfect in court

[Right voice:]Safety is nice, not an unwise word spokenScary bad dreams made safe in lovely songsNo doom or gloom allowed in this room

[Left voice:]Casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, cascade and cyanide, Rachaminoff, Beethoven, skull-silly wagon and justice and perverse and reverse the inverse and inverse and inverse, blueberry catalog, questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due cry, to battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing on minstrels and choking on dirt, disease please seems the order of the day, please the king, please the king, please the king day, casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, point of order, return the king here to the ceiling

[Right voice:]Oh, not to be whistled or studied or hummed or remembered at nights when the eye is alone, but to skewer and ravage and savage and split with the grace of a diamond then bellicose wit, to stun and to stagger with words as such stone, that those who do hear cannot again return home

[Left voice:]Razzamatazz, there's nothing on my shoulderLust is a must, shaving my head's made me bolderWill you kindly read what it was I brought thee?

[Right voice:]Hello to Ray, hello to Godiva and AngelWho let you in? Isn't it nice, the party?Aren't the lights pretty at night?

[Left voice:]Sick leaf and sorrow and pincers not scissors, regard and refrain from the daughters of marriage, regards for the elders and youngest in carriage, regard and regard for the inverse and perverse and obverse, and diverse, of reverse and reverse, regard from the sick, the dumb, and the camel from pump's storing water, like brain is too marrow to x-ray and filthy and cutting and then peeling to skin and to skin and to bone and to structure to livid and pallid and turgid and structured and structured and structured and structured and structured and regard and refrain, the sick and the dumb, inverse, reverse and perverse

[Right voice:]Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the seething for writhing and reeling and two-bit reportage, for sick with the body and sinister holy, the drown burst blue babies now dead on the seashore, the valorous horseman, who hang from the ceiling, the pig on the carpet, the dusty pale jissom, that has no effect for the sick with the see-saw, the inverse, obverse converse, reverse of reverse the diverse and converse of reverse and perverse and sweet pyrotechnics, and let's have another of inverse, converse, diverse, perverse and reverse, hell's graveyard is damned as they chew on their brains, the slick and the scum, reverse, inverse and perverse

[Left voice:]Plowing while it's done awayDumb and ready pig meatSick upon the carpetClimb into the casketSafe within the parapetSack is in the parapetPigs are out and growlingSlaughter by the seashoreSee the lifeguard drowningSea is full of fishesFishes full of chinaChina plates are fallingAll fall downSick and shiny carpetLie before my eyes-eyesLead me to the ceilingWalk upon the wall wallTender as the green grassDrink the whisky horrorSee the young girls dancingFlies upon the beachesBeaches are for sailorsNuns across the sea-wallBlack hood horseman ragingSwordsman eating fireFire on the carpetSet the house ablazingSeize and bring it flamingGently to the ground groundDizzy Bell Miss FortuneFat and full of love-juiceDrip it on the carpetDown below the fire hoseWeep and whisky fortuneSail me to the moon, dearDrunken dungeon sailorsHeadless Roman horsemenThe king and queen are emptyTheir heads are in the outhouseFish upon the waterBowl upon the saviourToothless wigged LaureatePlain and full of fancyName upon a letterheadImpressing all the wheat germLove you for a nickelMaul you for a quarterSet the casket flamingDo not go gentle blazing

[Right voice:]Sick upon the staircaseSick upon the staircaseBlood upon the pillowClimb into the parapetSee the church bells gleamingKnife that scrapes a sick plateDentures full of air holesThe tailor couldn't mend straightShoot her full of air holesClimbing up the casketTake me to the casketTeeth upon her red throatScrew me in the daisiesRip upon her hollerSnip the seas fantasticTreat her like a sailorFull and free and nervousOut to make his fortuneEither this or that waySickly or in good healthPiss upon a buildingLike a dog in trainingTeach to heel or hollerYodel on a sing songDown upon the carpetTickle polyesterSick within the parapetScrewing for a dollarSucking on a fire-hoseChewing on a rubber lineTied to chairs and rare bitsPay another playerOh you're such a good ladHere's another dollarTie him to the bedpostSick with witches' covensCraving for a raw meatBones upon the metalSick upon the circleDown upon the carpetDown upon the carpetDown below the parapetWaiting for your biddingPig upon the carpetTumenescent railroadNeuro-anaesthesia analogReady for a good lookDrooling at the birchesSwinging from the birchesSucculent Nebraska

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