Lou Reed / John Cale
Songs for Drella

THE REVIEW

"The trouble with a classicist
looks at a tree
and that's all he sees, so he paints a tree
the trouble with a classicist
looks at the sky
doesn't ask why, just paints a sky and that's it

This is the trouble with classicists

The trouble with an impressionist
looks at a stump
doesn't know who he is while he's there
looking at this stump
and the surrealist memories
are too shapeless and obtrusive
while those macho downtown painters
are just alcoholics

This is the trouble with impressionists

The trouble with celebrities
they're too caught up in style
it's a too personal matter
they're in love with their own cunning
they are like illegal immigrants
trying to make money at all costs
they drive a radio taxi
but think they're in a truck

This is the trouble with celebrities"

                                                                   ANDY WHAROL

"Faces and names, if only they were the same thing
faces and names
they do nothing but cause me trouble
faces and names

If we all looked the same
and all had the same name
I wouldn't be jealous of you
or you of me
faces and names

I always fall in love with someone who looks
how I'd like to look
I'm always watching
someone in the act of hurting
and the one really hurt is me

Faces and names, they seem the same to me
if I were like you
and you were like me
you'd see there would be less trouble

Faces and names I'd like them to fade away
I'd disappear into that wall and never speak
talk, don't talk"

                                                                   ANDY WHAROL

"I think it's worth repeating the images
images repeated from a painting
images taken from a painting
from a photo worth seeing again

I love images worthy of repetition
I project them on the ceiling
I multiply them with screens
I see them with different sensations

Images, those images
images, those images

They say images lack emotions
I think there's a deeper meaning
the mechanical precision or so it seems
provokes a much cooler feeling

I love the multiplicity of projections
the things that are born anew
show new meanings
I think it's worth repeating images
and repeating and repeating"

                                                                   ANDY WHAROL

Thank you Lou, thank you John!