| The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think you're correct about a lot of the changes you made. On the Quine Tapes official bootleg release there are multiple live versions of Sister Ray and the lyrics are often far more clear than they are on the album version. The live versions are of course not lyrically identical to the album version, but they're largely the same and we can extrapolate from them what the lyrics are on the studio version. So, "dressed in pink and leather" is definitely correct, there's really no ambiguity, and it's a pretty important line. I think you're also correct about "licking off her pigpen" instead of "licking up." A couple of your other changes are incorrect I think - I think it's very clearly "Duck" instead of "Doug," and in fact on one of the live recordings on the Quine Tapes Lou does a little intro and says "This is a story about somebody named Duck and Sally and Cecil..." and there's not a lot of ambiguity. It also sounds like he's saying "down five" rather than "downpipe." Anyway, overall I think your lyrics are much more accurate than the official ones here on this site, and the only glaring mistake I see in yours is the very first word, cuz it's Duck! :) Check out the Quine Tapes if you haven't, they're amazing. |
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