Sword Of Damocles - Externally Lyrics by Lou Reed

Sword Of Damocles - Externally Lyrics

    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 peoples die
    From car crashes or drugs
    Last night on 33rd st.
    I saw a kid get hit by a bus
    Bus 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

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