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Artist/Band: Lou Reed
Lyrics for Song: Trouble With Classicists
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Lou Reed



The trouble with a classicist he looks at a tree

That's all he sees, he paints a tree

The trouble with a classicist he looks at the sky

He doesn't ask why, he just paints a sky

The trouble with an impressionist, he looks at a log

And he doesn't know who he is, standing, staring, at this log

And surrealist memories are too amorphous and proud

While those downtown macho painters are just alcoholic

The trouble with impressionist is X4



The trouble with personalities, they're too wrapped up in style

It's too personal, they're in love with their own guile

They're like illegal aliens trying to make a buck

They're driving gypsy cabs but they're thinking like a truck

The trouble with personalities is X4

I like the druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains

I like their lack of training, their primitive technique

I think sometimes it hurts you when you stay too long in school

I think sometimes it hurts you when you're afraid to be called a fool

The trouble with classicists is X4


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