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Artist/Band: Lou Reed
Lyrics for Song: Sword Of Damocles - Externally
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Lou Reed



I see The Sword of Damocles

is right above your head

They're trying a new treatment

to get you out of bed

But radiation kills both bad and good

it can not differentiate

So to cure you they must kill you

the Sword of Damocles hangs above your head



Now I have seen lots of people die

from car crashes or drugs

Last night on 33rd st.

I saw a kid get hit by a bus

But this drawn out torture over which part of you lives

is very hard to take

To cure you they must kill you

the Sword of Damocles above your head



That mix of morphine and dexedrine

we use it on the street

It kills the pain and keeps you up

your very soul to keep

But this guessing game has its own rules

the good don't always win

And might makes right

the Sword of Damocles is hanging above your head



It seems everything's done that must be done

from over here though things don't seem fair

But there are things that we can't know

maybe there's something over there

Some other world that we don't know about

I know you hate that mystic shit

It's just another way of seeing

the Sword of Damocles above your head


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Lou Reed


Lou Reed
"Other Songs - Lou Reed"


1. All Tomorrows Parties
2. Berlin
4. Empty Bottles
5. Femme Fatale
8. Goodby Mass - In A Chapel Bodily Termination
9. Goodbye Mass
10. Here Comes The Bride
11. Lulu
14. No Chance - Regret
15. Power And Glory Part II - Magic Transformation
16. Sister Ray
17. Some Kinda Love
18. Soul Man
19. Sword Of Damocles - Externally
20. This Magic Moment
21. Trouble With Classicists
22. Voices Of Freedom
23. What's Good - The Thesis
24. You'll Know You Were Loved