Sick Of You

Lou Reed
"Sick of You"
From "New York" (1989)


[Intro]
 
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[Verse]


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I was up in the morning with the TV blaring
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Brush my teeth, sittin' watchin' the news
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All the beaches were closed, the ocean was a Red Sea
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But there was no one there to part in two
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There was no fresh salad because there's hypos in the cabbage
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Staten Island disappeared at noon
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They say the midwest is in great distress
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And NASA blew up the moon


[Chorus]

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The ozone layer has no ozone anymore
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And you're gonna leave me for the guy next door?
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I'm sick of you
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I'm sick of you


[Verse]

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They arrested the Mayor for an illegal favor
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Sold the Empire State to Japan
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And Oliver North married William Secord
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And gave birth to a little Teheran
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And the Ayatollah bought a nuclear warship
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If he dies he wants to go out in style
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And there's nothing to eat that don't carry the stink
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Of some human waste dumped in the Nile


[Chorus]

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Well, one thing is certainly true
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No one here knows what to do
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And I'm sick of you 
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I'm sick of you 


[Solo]


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[Verse]

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The radio said there were 400 dead
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In some small town in Arkansas
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Some whacked out trucker drove into a nuclear reactor
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And killed everybody he saw
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Now he's on Morton Downey and he's glowing and shiney
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Doctors say this is a medical advance
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They say the bad makes the good and there's something to be learned
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In every human experience


[Chorus]

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Well I know one thing that really is true
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This here's a zoo and the keeper ain't you
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And I'm sick of it
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I'm sick of you


[Verse]

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They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
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And died being treated at Mt. Sinal
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And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
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Some wired doctor prescribed for stress
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My arms and legs are shrunk the food all has lumps
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They discovered some animal no one's ever seen
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It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
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After running over Rudy Giuliani


[Chorus]

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They say the President's dead but no one can find his head
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It's been missing now for weeks
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But no one noticed it he had seemed so fit
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And I'm Sick of it

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I'm sick of you
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I'm so sick of you 

"Bye, bye, bye"

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