We know the rhythm, come on, eight measures of them
Don't you show any passion
You can show an emotion like a fireman
I'm not sure that we did this song all way,
like, it's not that I don't want to play your favourites,
it's just, there are so many favourites to choose from
The thing is: I, I was so sick of that song,
I don't get sick of my own songs, I like my own songs,...,
so we haven't done it in a while but, only doing tonight
and not because I like you, because now I'm not bored with it
Everybody gets whit somebody sometimes, except me, I'm lonely
Me and my several selfs discussing at night:
Lou number one, Lou, Lou number five
Hello, is that you again reformer? Me a .... huh
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
I had no attitude without a cigarette
I ride out cancer to be afraid of us
That wasn't a hint, I gave a remark,
coming from me, that's a compliment
Like going to bed with a brontosaurus, man, it's out of style
What is in style? Nothing is in style, man
Have you got news or not here?
Why not: 'cause there's nothing
Saturdaynight man, what are you mourning
Ahaa, what returns Lou Reed before your very eyes, ah?
I do Lou Reed better than anybody, I thought I get in on it
I'm not attituded to kill every person in church
Ask them if they say eh eh
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
hitch-hiked, hitch-hiked, oohh baby, across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
shaved his legs and he was a she
and it makes sense, you better take a walk on the wild side
Nothing to do baby what do you think I'm for on the wild side
Would you like to know how this song got written?
I know you've been dying to ask us
It sounds like Holly was born, that's an ....
Believe it or not: the first time I quit
Rock 'n roll because of too many lawsuits
It was like I could not affort my lawyers
I still can't, but now I got the goverment and it's partners
Fantastic, I get the goverment, like a week, you know,
in Puorto Rico, in a nice hotel,
and what did they play about assholes
I just play guitar
Hi Bruce
Springsteen is allright by the way
He gets my seal proved, I think he is proven
You know it's the way the critics turn on him,
like after they were on him, right?
When he needed them, they weren't there at any time
Critics: what is Robert Christagu doing in bed?
You know, is he a toe fucker?
Man, ain't no retender, assume this guy to rock, what a moron
I consume this guy is rock, man,
I object to the fucking liner notes
He's not studying rock 'n roll, I can't believe ...... man
I study buying me a Robert Christagu, trying to rob on him, wauw
You know how heavy it is to get reviewed by Rockwell
and he says you're intelligent, fuck you
I don't need you to tell me that I am good
Mister Reed, you know, you say ooh man
I'm just some kind of a maniac
Like in the New York Times said Mister Reed, fuck you
If you're going there then we kiss our ass now I don't give a jack
He writes and studies at Harvard though, my luck
Petite said: I quit, I thought you can't do that Nick
And that is the critic for the New York Times,
that makes and breaks the best rock bands,
that are very heavy and intelligence
Notice that there are no coloured rock groups?
certainly not in the New York writer John Roberts,
he wouldn't go there, man, he comes in CBG's for an avant-garde,
don't touch me man, and he's a big dude, someony should say:
John, don't be afraid, Christagu is like an ..... retented
Nice little boxing to B plus
You image working for a fucking year,
and you get a B plus from an asshole in the village voice?
And you don't got to take that shit,
you don't have to talk to the fucking journalists
And then get it for free in the best seats
In case you're interesting:
and there's no way we can do anything about it
The clubowners want the good review
So you get the asshole, right up front, but bored he's gone
When is this shit over, Marty, you got some coke?
Oh boy, anyway,
I know you're not interested in my problems, even mine
Candy came from out on nicer people on the island
This is true, this is true, believe me, oh why was that true
In the backroom she's everybody's darling,
went to a bar with her, .... ... ....
And when she was giving the greatest yet,
even when she gives you the greatest head,
there's was nothing that Candy ever said but,
Hey babe, why don't you, come on take a walk on the wild side
I really miss Candy, and I even didn't know her that well
I'm such a scam artist
Bikini from a silicone tit, and I'm supposed to feel sorry?
Now don't fucking do that, don't you,
You know you have health education,
don't put plastic in your fucking tit
You got no heart: man, I don't have enough heart for 14.000 assholes
But I've got enough for you, oh really?
You're almost as boring as you look, thanks
You look like a democrat, wanna go to bed?
Hey Little Joe
Little Joe was an idiot, I don't know if any of you know that,
but, here's this guy, like it, and you talk with him for two minutes,
you hear: he has an IQ of 12
So like he, he's the only guy I know
who went to Italy to be a moviestar,
and it is not happening, I mean,
everybody is ready to go to bed with him,
make him a star
He can't, he can't barely tie his shoes and dress,
and I know Einstein can't tie a shoe lately,
but it's not like that, not even close man,
you know he just said to what's his name
I say: Joe you're getting older, he says: I know
I make a Warhol thumb, but you can't do that anymore, man,
Andy has taken himself away from us, and he's right,
now I know why he did it
So, Drella, if you're there: I'm very glad that you're on out
But me and, how, how Catherine knew there,
he went to see Monique then, oohh
What did she do, sack? Late show?
................. gorbedella is a what
And the nailor, yeah, and the nailor at the party
choise the punch in the stomach
is he ...... ice pathetic, you know
Come on man, say what?
You gotta be kiddin', somebody step on it man, go write a bible
Anyway, interesting people on the Sugar Plum Fairy, hit the street
Sugar Plum Fairy,
now the person who loves the Sugar Plum Fairy is the terrible allright?
A real terror, she's fired from the New Yorker
and corrected Dorothy Parkers proofs, can you imaging
For those of you who still read: what a snotty remark, I know
Anyway, she makes her living writing things for the Encyclopedia Brittanica
Five cents a word, like last time I saw her she, she,
Michael, she, she was doing the flower section in Africa
Dolites in Africa, yeah, she said:
what is the word that will make this thing interesting
We call her Tiny Malice, Dorothy Dean,
oh man, two drinks and she .... you out
I throw with dishes at her,
like filled with cigarettes on Thanksgiving
Just 'cause she was getting ready to say, mmmm
She wouldn't come to see me if I was dying
Jacky, Jacky curses, this is revalations
Remember that play, like, you know players are ridiculous?
Aahh, started that whole thing out
at Rocky Horror shit and all that bullshit
Oohh man, don't you know, and I guess you don't, it's not your fault
It's the journalists, those fucking journalists,
why don't we shoot those journalists
You don't need those assholes,
why do you let them go in here free
Why don't you bitch or something, go to another club, yeah
I don't believe you take the shit
Anyway, I will run for office next week,
and I wouldn't vote for me on a prayer
I'm not trusted, but Jacky, and I know,
she's just speeding away
Followed by me, hey I'm Jimmy Dean for a day, what, what
But you know that she had to crash
and some valium had helped that dash
What do I use now: Dolo..., right, ten grams for a headache
Eight, eight dollars in Ohio, right, here it is like fifteen par
Unless you go to Chinatown, they bite your nose off
Hey, you need some for pain?
And then the coloured girls, they walk over, guess what they said,
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Wait baby, I was gone tell you how I came to write a song
Go Walk on the Wild Side
I did not think of it myself
Right, that's how I got on this one
I had worked out,
just when I made an album called Loaded For Loaded,
yeah, that's right, because I saw it coming, and said oh oh,
get lost, so I walked, right,
because we were gonna be very succesfull,
and there could be money there and these are my rounds
So I became a typist for my old man,
forty dollars a week, he says stupid
I said yeah, but I understood I was smart:
I don't want the company man, you know
I have had two jobs, once with a guy in Johns Beach,
you know the stick with the pin
Lasted one day, a guy threw a orange peel
down here in the trash ..
I say you gotta be kiddin' man, I got a stick with a pin in it
So he put me in the pool area, the guy who walks around
when you put your stuff, like in the fucking chair
And they say: if you even go take the stuff with you,
we throw it in the water
That was an afternoon, I said: what do you say,
can't you read the sign?
I was one of them
Wauw, that was, I'm a shock, I was at war,
I was taken the back, and then he saw
So, the guys who did the free pennie outward, this is all true
Call me up, of all things they say:
we think you are a very literary rock 'n roll person,
and after Ray Davies we think that you are the person
that could take Nelson Aldridge's book Walk On The Wild Side
and do like a musical thing for old Broadway
I said, I said, you gotta be kiddin',
it's about crippes in the ghetto,
man, what are you, out of your mind?
They said: oh but,you know, very serious intensive .... like
.... , Park Avenue Prize
And I said: oh what, I'm not for,
I'm a fucking typist at this point, you gotta understand man
People saying: oh Lou you're sorry ,
I got forty dollars a week, you gotta be kiddin'
These assholes wanna treat me for a book that's about cripples?
I'm the best qualified person to write a book about cripples in music?
Kill yourself man, that's better than be a garage mechanic,
I think
As long as I keep thinking that, you know,
and why, what's the truth
I keep saying the ... will appear in side, hee, smuck
It was realy groovy all the time
being that garage mechanic out nightclubs,
aren't they, oh wauw
Why didn't you tap my on the shoulder oh,
because you wouldn't listen, fair enough
So they give, they, they say go buy a paperback version
and gimmie gimmie a version
I said is it writ, oh the movie with Jane Fonda,
said then: now you got it
I like to look at Jane Fonda, don't wanna hear her
Now I don't even want ot look at her, you know
I don't like the senses of lesbian pictures
Look, I, I don't relay, you know, backwards I don't relay,
and facing front is hopeless
So I read this fucking book, and I,
they said: will you make a X where you think the song should go, haha
The cripple goes to the bathroom, oh, oh yeah, cripple cripple
I, I got jammed for a few times, I had nothing to say to them
So then it became a challenge, so I figured,
why don't I write the theme song for Walk On The Wild Side,
I call it Walk On The Wild Side, that's smart
So I had a great time with nothing to write about,
this stupid fucking book,man
Everybody says the guy is brilliant,
I said: he's from Chicago, Saul Bellow, oh
So anyway, then they got Mahogony, that,
that play that flopped
Diana Ross getting,
Diana Ross by the way is great, as a person,
she hasn't any good record at the time
Love Hangover is not
She says lo... that's more than you do
So anyway, I had a great title,
and nothing else, and then they fired me
I mean they did it really gently,
they looked down easily and they said:
Lou, man, we've got a chanche to produce Mahogony on Broadway
I said: ow wauw, am I crushed, ha, break a leg,
I read that book, go get them man, look
advance the theatre, haha, Bruce,
you got to believe me man, these, these people excist
Till the play ba...
because assholes like Robert Christagu said it was terrible,
and in this case it was
And I wouldn't go in the first place,
but there I was writing the song for these assholes
Anyway, so then, I had a great time writing, I figured
I save this title for the day I decide to solve the world
New .. .... so I did them

Lou Reed, Live 1977