Velvet Underground Lyrics

    ------ About the song The Gift performed by Velvet Underground

On my cd the music is panned all the way to one channel, and the vocal is panned to the other, so if you shift to just the vocal channel (left or right, I can't remember), you can hear just the John Cale narrative... Adds a certain creepiness to the delivery

    ------ About the song Candy Says performed by Velvet Underground

the song brought me to tears ., as i remembered my daughter and her addiction to heroin, she has since passed ., and iknow a song can have many meanings , this song sung by antony and lou reed. as well as other songs have brought meaning and unity.,thank you sincerly

    ------ About the song Candy Says performed by Velvet Underground

I love the original, of course, and I agree with the guy who mentioned the blind melon cover (love me some Shannon Hoon!), but the version that gets the most rotation in my life's play list has been Dax Riggs' (of acid bath and deadboy and the elephantmen) solo accoustic version. The lyrics are genius and his voice is amazing.
I have been Candy. Some times, I still am. This song touched me the first time I heard it, sitting around a bonfire in the middle of no where with all of my favorite people back in high school, and still touches me today, sitting in my living room alone 10 years later. Thank you, velvet underground!

    ------ About the song All Tomorrow's Parties performed by Velvet Underground

it is sold completely and obviously about Jesus Christ , you really have to be retarded to think anything else , most rock n roll is a very subtle blasphemy , I'm not complaining , sure will turn once more to Sunday's clown ,thursdays he was crucified ,Friday he died ,Sunday he rose from the dead ,you really have to be a moron to think anything else

    ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground

I couldn't agree more with "heroin is heaven". I have never tried heroin, so I cannot fully understand what it is about, but I can try and interpretate the song's meaning. Doing heroin must be like reaching the ultimate happiness, like feeling complete or realized. But oh you know that incomparable waves of joy will turn into the flames of hell after a while, and the only way of coping with it is to extinguish the pain with more heroin, but in fact you are only adding more fuel to the fire of your sin. I don't know if I would ever try heroin, and I would never really could unless I had it in my own hands. I don't like the idea of getting stung with a needle, but if I ever happen to do it, it'd be with people I know and trust, and just once in my life because it would be horrible to depend on it to the point of endangering my life.

    ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground

anybody who has never done heroin, don't judge people who do until you either try it or are open minded and empathetic enough to really try and understand the drug and its affect on people. imagine a drug that can literally change your mood from total depression or anger to bliss and happiness and the most content feeling youve ever felt in your life. well that is exactly what heroin can do (good, real heroin), it makes you more social, it makes you happy, it makes you able to forget about all your problems and anxiety. it is a miracle drug. and because of this it is evil, because your life seems to dull and depressing once you are off it, and you think to yourself how much better i could feel if only i did a little dope. heroin is bad, but for those of us who know how to use it recreationally and only on occassion (once a month or so) it really isn't so bad. but i'd say only about 1 in 20 people can do it that way. and by the way lou reed was not glorifying heroin in this song he was simply singing about it from his own perspective, not glorifying nor railing against it, but simply seeing it was it was in his life!

    ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground

Let me start out by saying, that whoever made the statements that you got clean listening to this song is totally ironic, but congratulations! It would make me do the exact opposite, but I'm glad for you all!! I've heard this song before but I never sat down and listen to the lyrics until today. My husband and I went for a motorcycle ride and he just started singing this song, and I said, " honey what song are you singing? It sounds familiar to me. " He then said to me, " Whenever i was a teenager, my buddies and I used to sit around & listen to this song whenever we would get high. " Then he told me that whenever we got home he was gonna download this song, and he said, " I want you to listen to the lyrics and tell me what you think about it. " So I did, and I loved it. So thank you Lou Reed. I found my new sit back and relax song.

    ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground

I have to agree with Steven_tyler77..it surprises me that so many of the people here have quit because of this song. I find that very beautiful though. I'm very happy for all of you. This song makes me crave for opiates as well. I have a thing for dilaudid..which I usually call my medical heroin, since I get it from doctors and such. So everytime I hear this Velvet Underground song, it immediately makes me crave or I listen to this song while I'm high on occasions. I hope that eventually I wont feel this way anymore because this is a beautiful song..I absolutely love it. I also read somewhere that Lou Reed was told by a few fans that they shot up heroin while playing the song..Lou Reed mentioned that that was not the intention of the song's meaning. So hope my review was helpful.

    ------ About the song Sweet Jane performed by Velvet Underground

Lou Reed is fantastic in this song. I love his sense of humor while he sings Sweet Jane. The Velvet Underground is a very good and inspirational band. Great jam again..I can play this all day long.

    ------ About the song Heroin performed by Velvet Underground

I don't know how you people have been helped by this song to stay clean (I mean, it's great that you did, good for you). If anything, to me, it just gives opiate cravings (I have never done heroin, but I'm a regular recreational codeine user). The way the music flows and the mellow lyrics about not caring about what goes on in the world anymore describe very well the pleasures of an opiate high... I can't see how you were frightened by it, when this song really glorifies the drug. I perfectly understand why Lou Reed stopped singing it after quitting heroin use: had he sung it, it would've make him crave the high. I guess it takes an opiate user to understand this, but do take my word for it. Do not mess with opiates and expect you won't get hooked, because eventually you will...