Sweet Jane [Live: Take No Prisoners]

[Lou]: Hello, sorry we're late, but we were just tuning
[fan]: Lou Reed, best!

[Lou]:
What's the matter, they keep you waiting or something…
Are we late?
It's raining out there...
What do you mean it's raining out? We know it's fucking raining out…
Man, the guy who tightened this microphone is Godzilla ... I can’t, look at that, look at that
I better either grow an inch, man - or I need a boyfriend

[Fan1]: Need a what? Need a what?

[Lou]: A boyfriend, can't you fucking hear what's wrong with you?

[Fan1]: Need a what?

[Fans]: Come on now, Sweet Jane!

[Fan1]: I heard that

[Lou]: I'm gonna quote a line like like from from Yeats
I think it is, like, for you
And that's called the best lack all convictions
While the best are filled -
No, no it's the other way round
The best lack all convictions
And the worst are filled with a passionate intensity
Now you figure out where I am

[Fan]: Do it man, do it!

[Lou]
One two, one two three four

Standing on the corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest
I hear you
I hear you knocking but you can't come in
To me
Hey honey, I'm in a rock and roll band
And ridin' a Stutz Bearcat
Those were different times
And those ladies they studied rules of verse
And all those ladies, they rolled their eyes
And saying

Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane

Now Jack, he is a banker
And Jane, she is just a little bitty clerk
And both of them
Hey you little people out there
Oh, you little people
Don't you hate those Academy Awards, man?
You know they said: here's fucking Barbara Streisand
She says: I want to thank all those little people
There's too many little people
I can't get their names
Fuck her and her little people
I like big people
Fuck short people and tall people, man, I like middle people
People from Wyoming
You've ever meet somebody from Wyoming?
Not me

Anyway:
Now Jack, he is a banker
And Jane, she is a clerk
Hey clerk
Gimme good clerk
I give good clerk

Aha

And both them man, they save their pennies
And their fucking nickels and their dimes, and it builds up
They got a nest egg
Here comes the condominium
Oh shit
Hey Miami

You're sitting there by the fire man
It's an electric fire, you plug it in
I like make-believe fire
I like make-believe love too
Ooh mama, give me some make-believe love
Hey - "Make-believe Love": that's a album title, Michael
Write that down, quick before I forget it

You're listening to some classical music, hey
You better watch it now
It's only one time one time only to vote
Hey, The March Of The Wooden Soldiers
Have you ever put a quarter in those machines man?
You know: like the bear that plays basketball?
You put a quarter in

Aha

I guess you never put a quarter in it ha?
Some people say I'm residue

Haha

The March Of The Wooden Soldiers

Where were you on the list when they called you for Vietnam?
Hey man for Vietnam
Are you political Lou?
Political about what?
Give me an issue, I’ll give you a tissue
And wipe my ass with it
Ooh yeah
We're just here to make out
You bend over
We put the head in, you know
If you don't like it
Then we'll talk about it
Face north, Jack

Are we been broadcast tonight?
Fuck radio Ethiopia man
I'm radio Brooklyn
I ain't no snob man

Haha

They said

Sweet Jane
Oh sweet Jane
(Sweet Jane)

You know, there's some people man, they like to go out dancing
[Fan]: inaudible
[Lou]What about her?
If you write as good as you talk, nobody reads you
What do I look like Henny Youngman up here, man?
You know I found my wife in the living room in a Volkswagen
They said: how did you get there?
Made it right through the kitchen
Ain't that funny, haha?

And there's some evil motherfuckers
Ooh, ooh, ooh
That tell you that life is just made out of dirt
And that eh
Ah man, those pretty women they never really faint
Those villains always - shut up you
And blink their eyes
There little bitty children are the only ones that blush
And that life
Life is just to die
But I’ll tell you something
Hey man, anyone who's got a heart
A rock and roll heart
Would you turn around and break it?
And you know
Do that again Michael
Is that control?
Watch this now
And anyone who has played the part you know, hey, hey man
They wouldn’t turn around and hate it
They'd say

Sweet Jane
(Sweet Jane)
Sweet Jane
(Sweet Jane)
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane