Listen to Dime Store Mystery (Live) song with lyrics from Lou Reed

Dime Store Mystery (Live)

Lou Reed3 Nov 2021

Dime Store Mystery (Live) Lyrics

 

He was lying banged and battered

Skewered and bleeding

Talking crippled on the cross

Was his mind reeling and heaving hallucinating

Fleeing what a loss

The things he hadn't touched or kissed

His senses slowly stripped away

Not like buddha not like vishnu

Life wouldn't rise through him again

I find it easy to believe

That he might question his beliefs

The beginning of the last temptation

Dime story mystery

The duality of nature

Godly nature

Human nature splits the soul

Fully human

Fully divine and divided

The great immortal soul

Split into pieces

Whirling pieces

Opposites attract

From the front

The side

The back

The mind itself attacks

I know the feeling

I know it from before

Descartes through hegel belief is never sure

Dime store mystery

Last temptation

I was sitting

Drumming

Thinking

Thumping

Pondering

The mysteries of life

Outside the city shrieking

Screaming

Whispering

The mysteries of life

There's a funeral tomorrow

At st

Patrick's the bells will ring for you

Ah

What must you have been thinking

When you realized the time had come for you

I wish I hadn't thrown away my time

On so much human and so much less divine

The end of the last temptation

 

The end of a dime store mystery