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Lou Reed - Perfect Day
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Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
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Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
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Lou Reed - Vicious
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Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
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Lou Reed - I'm Waiting For The Man
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Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
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Lou Reed - This Magic Moment
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Lou Reed - Nobody But You
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Lou Reed - She's My Best Friend
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Lou Reed - Berlin
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Lou Reed - Charley's Girl
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Lou Reed - Andy's Chest
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Lou Reed - Crazy Feeling
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Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd
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Lou Reed - Heroin
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Lou Reed - Pale Blue Eyes
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Lou Reed - The Kids
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Lou Reed - Vanishing Act
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Lou Reed - Caroline Says 2
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Lou Reed - Ecstasy
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Lou Reed - Smalltown
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Lou Reed - Average Guy
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Lou Reed - Goodnight Ladies
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Lou Reed - Hangin' Round
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Lou Reed - Hello It's Me
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Lou Reed - I Love You
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Lou Reed - Lady Day
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Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
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Lou Reed - Make Up
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Lou Reed - New Sensations
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Lou Reed - Strawman
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Lou Reed - Street Hassle
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Lou Reed - The Gun
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Lou Reed - Halloween Parade
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Lou Reed - I Love You, Suzanne
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Lou Reed - Martial Law
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Lou Reed - My House
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Lou Reed - Romeo Had Juliete
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Lou Reed - Sad Song
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Lou Reed - The Bed
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Lou Reed - The Day John Kennedy Died
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Lou Reed - There Is No Time
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Lou Reed - What's Good - The Thesis
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Lou Reed - Wild Child
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Lou Reed - Busload Of Faith
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Lou Reed - Caroline Says I
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Lou Reed - Claim To Fame
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Lou Reed - Dirty Boulevard
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Lou Reed - Endless Cycle
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Lou Reed - Frustration (feat. Metallica)
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Lou Reed - Going Down
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Lou Reed - I Can't Stand It
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Lou Reed - I'll Be Your Mirror
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Lou Reed - I'm So Free
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Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons
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Lou Reed - Like a Possum
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Lou Reed - Lisa Says
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Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation
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Lou Reed - Real Goodtime Together
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Lou Reed - Ride, Sally, Ride
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Lou Reed - Rock And Roll
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Lou Reed - Rock Minuet
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Lou Reed - Shooting Star
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Lou Reed - Sick Of You
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Lou Reed - Tatters
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Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
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Lou Reed - Turning Time Around
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Lou Reed - Wagon Wheel
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Lou Reed - Waves Of Fear
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Lou Reed - A Dream
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Lou Reed - A Gift
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Lou Reed - A Sheltered Life
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Lou Reed - A Wild Being From Birth
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Lou Reed - Adventurer
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Lou Reed - All Through The Night
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Lou Reed - America - Star Spangled Banner
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Lou Reed - Animal Language
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Lou Reed - Baby Face
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Lou Reed - Balloon
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Lou Reed - Banging On My Drum
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Lou Reed - Baton Rouge
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Lou Reed - Beginnig Of A Great Aventure
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Lou Reed - Beginning To See The Light
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Lou Reed - Betrayed
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Lou Reed - Big Sky
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Lou Reed - Billy
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Lou Reed - Blind Rage
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Lou Reed - Bottoming Out
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Lou Reed - Brandenburg Gate
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Lou Reed - Broadway Song
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Lou Reed - Burning Embers
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Lou Reed - Call On Me
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Lou Reed - Call On Me (feat. Laurie Anderson)
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Lou Reed - Candy Says
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Lou Reed - Change
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Lou Reed - Cheat on Me
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Lou Reed - City Lights
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Lou Reed - Courtly Orangutans
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Lou Reed - Cremation
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Lou Reed - Dime Store Mystery
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Lou Reed - Dirt
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Lou Reed - Doin' The Thing That We Want To
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Lou Reed - Don't Hurt a Woman
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Lou Reed - Don't Talk To Me About Work
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Lou Reed - Down At The Arcade
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Lou Reed - Downtown Dirt
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Lou Reed - Dragon
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Lou Reed - Dreamin' - Escape
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Lou Reed - Edgar Allan Poe
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Lou Reed - Egg Cream
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Lou Reed - Endlessly Jealous
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Lou Reed - Ennui
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Lou Reed - Every Frog Has His Day
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Lou Reed - Faces And Names
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Lou Reed - Families
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Lou Reed - Finish Line
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Lou Reed - Fly Into The Sun
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Lou Reed - Foggy Notion
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Lou Reed - Follow The Leader
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Lou Reed - Foot Of Pride
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Lou Reed - Forever Changed
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Lou Reed - Future Farmers Of America
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Lou Reed - Gassed And Stoked
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Lou Reed - Gimme Some Good Times
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Lou Reed - Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
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Lou Reed - Good Taste
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Lou Reed - Goodby Mass
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Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public
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Lou Reed - Guardian Angel
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Lou Reed - Guilty
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Lou Reed - Hang On To Your Emotions
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Lou Reed - Harry's circumcision - Reverie gone astray
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Lou Reed - Heavenly Arms
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Lou Reed - Here Comes The Bride
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Lou Reed - High In The City
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Lou Reed - Hold On
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Lou Reed - Home Of The Brave
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Lou Reed - Hookywooky
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Lou Reed - Hop Frog
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Lou Reed - How do You Speak To An Angel
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Lou Reed - How do You Think It Feels
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Lou Reed - I Believe
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Lou Reed - I Believe in Love
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Lou Reed - I Remember You
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Lou Reed - I Wanna Be Black
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Lou Reed - I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)
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Lou Reed - I Want To Boogie With You
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Lou Reed - Iced Honey (feat. Metallica)
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Lou Reed - Images
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Lou Reed - Imp Of The Perverse
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Lou Reed - In Our Sleep
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Lou Reed - It Wasn't Me
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Lou Reed - Junior Dad
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Lou Reed - Keep Away
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Lou Reed - Kicks
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Lou Reed - Ladies Pay
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Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale
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Lou Reed - Leave Me Alone
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Lou Reed - Little Dog
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Lou Reed - Little Sister
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Lou Reed - Looking For Love
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Lou Reed - Love Is Here To Stay
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Lou Reed - Love Makes You Feel
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Lou Reed - Mad
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Lou Reed - Magic And Loss - The Summation
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Lou Reed - Magician
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Lou Reed - Make up my Mind
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Lou Reed - Mama's Got a Lover
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Lou Reed - Men Of Good Fortune
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Lou Reed - Mistress Dread
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Lou Reed - Mistrial
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Lou Reed - Modern Dance
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Lou Reed - My Friend George
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Lou Reed - My Old Man
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Lou Reed - My Red Joystick
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Lou Reed - Mystic Child
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Lou Reed - N. Y. Stars
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Lou Reed - No Chance
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Lou Reed - No Money Down
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Lou Reed - Nobody's Business
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Lou Reed - Nowhere At All
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Lou Reed - NYC Man
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Lou Reed - Ocean
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Lou Reed - Oh Jim
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Lou Reed - Old Poe
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Lou Reed - One For My Baby
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Lou Reed - Ooohhh Baby
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Lou Reed - Open House
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Lou Reed - Outside
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Lou Reed - Paranoia Key Of E
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Lou Reed - Peggy Sue
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Lou Reed - Pow Wow
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Lou Reed - Power And Glory (The Situation)
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Lou Reed - Power And Glory Part 2 - Magic Transformation
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Lou Reed - Prologue (Ligiea)
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Lou Reed - Pumping Blood
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Lou Reed - Ride Into The Sun
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Lou Reed - Riptide
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Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Heart
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Lou Reed - Rock'N'Roll
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Lou Reed - Rooftop Garden
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Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance
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Lou Reed - Science Of The Mind
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Lou Reed - Senselessly Cruel
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Lou Reed - September Song
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Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling
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Lou Reed - Sex With Your Parents
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Lou Reed - Sister Ray
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Lou Reed - Slip Away (a Warning)
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Lou Reed - Smiles
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Lou Reed - So Alone
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Lou Reed - Some Kinda Love
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Lou Reed - Something Happened
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Lou Reed - Soul Man
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Lou Reed - Spit It Out
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Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony
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Lou Reed - Starlight
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Lou Reed - Stupid Man
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Lou Reed - Style It Takes
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Lou Reed - Sword of Damocles
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Lou Reed - Talking Book
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Lou Reed - Teach The Gifted Children
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Lou Reed - Tell It To Your Heart
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Lou Reed - Temporary Thing
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Lou Reed - The Bells
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Lou Reed - The Cask
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Lou Reed - The Conqueror Worm
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Lou Reed - The Fall Of The House Of Usher
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Lou Reed - The Heroine
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Lou Reed - The Last Shot
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Lou Reed - The Original Wrapper
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Lou Reed - The Power Of Positive Drinking
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Lou Reed - The Proposition
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Lou Reed - The Raven
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Lou Reed - The Tell-Tale Heart Pt. 2
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Lou Reed - The Valley Of Unrest
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Lou Reed - The View (feat. Metallica)
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Lou Reed - Think It Over
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Lou Reed - Thousand Departed Friends
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Lou Reed - Trade In
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Lou Reed - Tranquilize
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Lou Reed - Tripitena's Speech
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Lou Reed - Trouble With Classicists
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Lou Reed - Turn Out The Light
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Lou Reed - Turn To Me
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Lou Reed - Underneath The Bottle
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Lou Reed - Vicious Circle
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Lou Reed - Video Violence
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Lou Reed - Wait
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Lou Reed - Walk And Talk It
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Lou Reed - Warrior King
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Lou Reed - What Becomes a Legend Most
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Lou Reed - White Light / White Heat
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Lou Reed - White Light / White Heat
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Lou Reed - White Prism
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Lou Reed - Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
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Lou Reed - Why Can't I Be Good
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Lou Reed - With You
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Lou Reed - Women
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Lou Reed - Work
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Lou Reed - Xmas In February
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Lou Reed - You Wear It So Well
Prologue (Ligiea)
Lou Reed
In the science of the mind there is no point
more thrilling than to notice which I never noticed in schools that in our endeavors
to recall to memory something long-forgotten
we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance
without being in the end able to remember
Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes
I have felt the full knowledge
and force of their expression
and yet been unable to possess it
and have felt it leave me as so many other things have left
the letter half-read, the bottle half-drunk
finding in the commonest objects
of the universe a circle of analogies
of metaphors for that expression
which has been willfully withheld from me
the access to the inner soul denied
Eyes blazed with a too-glorious effulgence
pale fingers transparent, waxen, the hue of the grave
Blue veins upon the lofty forehead swelled
and sunk impetuously with the tides of deep emotion
and I saw that she must die
that she was wresting with the dark shadow
Her stern nature had impressed me
with the belief that, to her
death would come without its terrors
but not so
I groaned in anguish at the pitiable spectacle
I would have soothed
I would have reasoned
But she was amid the most convulsive of writhings
Oh, pitiful soul
Her voice more gentle
more low, and yet her words grew wilder of meaning
I reeled, entranced, to a melody more than mortal
She loved me, no doubt
and in her bosom
love reigned as no ordinary passion
But in death only was I impressed
with the intensity of her affection
Her more than passionate devotion amounted to idolatry
How had I deserved to be so blessed
and then cursed with the removal of my beloved
upon the hour of her most delirious musings
In her more than womanly abandonment to a love
all unmerited and unworthily bestowed
I came to realize the principle of her longing
It was a yearning for life
an eager, intense desire for life
which was now fleeing so rapidly away
as she returned solemnly to her bed of death
And I had no utterance capable of expressing it
except to say
Man doth not yield to the angels
nor unto death utterly
save only through the weakness of his feeble will
I became wild with the excitement
of an immoderate does of opium
I saw her raising wine to her lips
or may have dreamed that I saw fall within a goblet
as if from some invisible spring
in the atmosphere of the room
three of four large drops
of a brilliant and ruby-colored fluid
Falling
While Ligeia lay in her bed of ebony
the bed of death
with mine eyes riveted upon her body
Then came a moan
a sob low and gentle but once
I listened in superstitious terror but heard it not again
I strained vision to see any motion in the corpse
but here was not the slightest perceptible
Yet I had heard the noise
and my whole soul was awakened within me
The red liquid fell and I thought, Ligeia lives
and I felt my brain reel
my heart cease to beat
and my limbs go rigid where I sat
In extremity of horror
I heard a vague sound issuing from the region of the bed
Rushing to her I saw
I distinctly saw
a tremor upon her lips
I sprang to my feet and chafed
and bathed the temples and hands but in vain
all color fled
all pulsation ceased
Her lips resumed the expression of the dead
the icy hue, the sunken outline
and all the loathsome peculiarities of that
which for many days has been the tenant of the tomb
And again I sank into visions of Ligeia
And again I heard a low sob
As I looked she seemed to grow taller
What inexpressible madness seized me with that thought?
I ran to touch her
Her head fell, and her clothing crumbled
and there streamed forth huge masses of long disheveled hair
It was blacker
than the raven wings of midnight