Bottoming Out
Lou Reed * Track #9 On Legendary Hearts
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Bottoming Out by Lou Reed
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Lou Reed’s “Bottoming Out” is about recognizing your defects and looking for a way out. The term bottoming out is commonly used with regard to substance abusers – to bottom out is to finally do something so low for your habit that you are stunned into recognizing you have to get help or you will die...
Bottoming Out Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'm cruising fast on a motorcycle
Down this winding country road
And I pass the gravel at the foot of the hill
Where last week I fell off
There's still some oil by this old elm tree
And a dead squirrel that I hit
But if I hadn't left, I would have struck you dead
So I took a ride instead
[Chorus]
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[Verse 2]
My doctor says, she hopes I know
How lucky I can be
After all it wasn't my blood
Mixed in the dirt that night
But this violent rage, that turns inward
Cannot be helped by drink
And we must really examine this and I say
I need another drink
[Chorus]
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[Verse 3]
I'm tearing down Route 80 east
The sun's on my right side
I'm drunk, but my vision's good
And I think of my child bride
And on the left in shadows I see
I see something that makes me laugh
I aim that bike at the fat pothole
Beyond that underpass
[Chorus]
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