Lou Reed
Lou Reed - The Cask lyrics
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[Edgar:] Never bet the devil your head When I was an infant my mother treated me like a tough steak To her well regulated mind babies were the better for beatings But she was left handed and a child flogged left handed is better left unflogged The world revolves from right to left It will not do to whip a baby from left to right If each blow in the right direction drives an evil propensity out a blow in the opposite direction knocks it's quota of wickedness in Hence my precocity in vice my sensitivity to injuries the thousands of injuries heaped upon me by Fortunato and then finally his rabid insults for which I vowed revenge I gave no utterance to threat But the knowledge of "avengemenship" was so definite so precise that no risk could befall me by neither word nor deed had I given cause to doubt my good will I would punish with impunity I will fuck him up the ass and piss in his face I will redress the wrong But lips and psyche mind be silent Fortunato approaches [Fortunato:] Don't take me to task for loving a cask The cask of Amontillado Please don't make a pass You can go kiss my ass All I want is this mythical cask The cask of Amontillado I've heard so much through the grapevine I've heard so much on the line But the one thing that I lust after Is the one thing I've never had So is it too much to ask Too have just one taste of the cask Why you could go kiss my ass for the cask of Amontillado Edgar old fellow dear bosom friend Hail fellow well met oh great elucidator great epopee [Edgar:] Haha.. Fortunato wh