Dirty Blvd. by Lou Reed
“one more lou song...this as close as lou got to a springsteen or mellancamp song but shot thru with some bleak as hell lyrics”
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one more lou song...this as close as lou got to a springsteen or mellancamp song but shot thru with some bleak as hell lyrics
...Fly, fly away...
"Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em That's what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses Let's club 'em to death And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard"
I've been re-listening to Theme Time Radio Hour on my runs. This song features in the theme New York. Dylan introduces it “here is a man who couldn't be defeated, Lou Reed”
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"Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, I'll piss on them. That's what the Statue of Bigotry says." Putting my Halloween costume together reminded me that Lou Reed (my costume last year) died just over a year ago. Unfortunately, the lyrics to many of the songs on New York, like this one, are just as, if not more scathingly true now then they were 25 yrs ago. RIP Lou.
From his 1989 album New York. The icy stare of the amoral observer can, sometimes, give rise to a compassionate voice then tip over into social commentary - and even politics tinged with outrage. Here the outrage is vividly explicit.
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