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Lou Reed - The City In The Sea / Shadow Lyrics

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  • Death has reared himself a throne
  • In a strange city
  • alone
  • Death has reared himself a throne
  • In a strange city
  • alone
  • Their shrines and palaces are not like ours
  • They do not tremble and rot
  • Eaten with time
  • Death has reared himself a throne
  • Lifted by forgotten winds
  • Resignedly beneath the sky
  • The melancholy waters lie
  • A crown of stars
  • In a strange city
  • alone
  • A heaven God does not condemn
  • But the everlasting shadow
  • Makes mockery of it all
  • No holy rays come down
  • Lights from the lurid deep sea
  • stream up the turrets silently
  • Up thrones, up arbors
  • Of sculpted ivy and stone flowers
  • Up domes, up spires
  • Kingly halls all are melancholy shrines
  • The columns, frieze and entablature
  • Chokingly shockingly intertwined
  • The mast the viol and the vine
  • Twisted
  • There amid no earthly moans
  • Hell rises from a thousand thrones
  • Does reverence to death
  • And death does give his undivided time
  • There are open temples
  • and graves on a level with the waves
  • Death looms and looks
  • huge
  • gigantic
  • There is a ripple
  • now a wave
  • Towers thrown aside
  • Sinking in the dull tide
  • The waves glowing redder
  • The very hours losing their breath
  • All the cunning stars
  • watching fitfully over night after night of
  • matchless ........ sleep
  • matched only with the whole of dream .......
  • The tell-tale beating of the heart
  • the ......... breath
  • The desire, the pose
  • one poses upon the precipice
  • to fall to run to dive to tumble to fall down
  • down into the spiral down and then
  • One sees one's own death
  • one sees one committing murder or atrocious violent acts
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