Lou Reed - Sweet Jane - 9/25/1984 - Capitol Theatre (Official) It was the '70s when Lewis Allan Reed ("Lou" for friends) stated, "By now, to achieve balance, you have to take certain drugs. They don't even high you anymore, they just make you normal."
Leslie Conway Bangs, "Lester" for friends (music critic and American musician, who had a love/hate passion for LR), once said, before finally packing up at just thirty-three due to an overdose (possibly accidental) of a mix of analgesics and psychotropics: "Lou Reed (who described himself as pansexual) is the guy who gave dignity, poetry, and rock 'n' roll to heroin, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny, ineptitude, and suicide."
Among the many covers, Enrico Ruggeri also tried his hand at a version of the Velvet's song, including it in the album "Punk prima di te" from 2007.
One of the most sensitive interpretations, in my opinion, was that of the Canadian "Cowboy Junkies" from '88, which William Oliver Stone wanted to include in the soundtrack of his legendary "Natural Born Killers" from '94.
Standin' on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack's in his car, says to Jane, who's in her vest
And me, I'm in a rock 'n' roll band
Ridin' in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim
You know those were different times
All, all the poets studied rows of verse
And those ladies, they rolled their eyes
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
I'll tell you somethin' of Jack, he is a banker
And Jane, she is a clerk
And the both of them save their moneys
And when, when they come home from work
Ooh, sittin' by the fire, ooh
The radio just played a little classical music that jam
The march of the wooden soldiers
All you protest kids, you can hear Jack say
Get ready ya
Sweet Jane, ah, come on baby now
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Some people like to go out dancing
And other people, they have to work, just watch me now
And there's always some evil mothers
Well they gonna tell you that everything is just of dirt
You know that women never really faint
And that villeins always blink their eyes, ooh
And that you know children are the only ones who blush
And that life is just to die
But anyone with or had a heart, oh
They wouldn't turn around and break it
And anyone who ever played the part, oh
They wouldn't turn around and hate it
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Heavenly wine and roses
Seem to whisper to her when he smiles
Heavenly wine and roses
Seem to whisper to her, hey, when she smiles
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
