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I've been told
That you've been bold
With Harry, Mark and John
Well that's my second favorite line
From my fifth favorite song
Hope you like Lou
He's pride of place
At number one
And also number two
But in between the third and fourth
I've split some room for you
No one like Lou
Someone who looks a little
like him though
Don't know his name
but he plays guitar for Sebadoh
And if you're gonna make a move
For some space in my life
You gotta share it with Lou
So I hope you like Lou
That you've been bold
With Harry, Mark and John
Well that's my second favorite line
From my fifth favorite song
At number one
And also number two
But in between the third and fourth
I've split some room for you
like him though
Don't know his name
but he plays guitar for Sebadoh
And if you're gonna make a move
For some space in my life
You gotta share it with Lou
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Originally titled 'Hope You Like Lou', the title comes from a Lou Reed interview where Lou was saying that he sent out cds of new material because he didn't want the label to hear those 'scary cassettes'.
A heartfelt paean to Lou Reed which also name-checks Lou Barlow and Sebadoh – hard to see how this could be anything but great, but a catchy number to boot.
Tom Morgan: “I really don’t know… I just really love Lou Reed. There’s a bit of plagiarism there at the very beginning (the track opens with a stanza from Satellites Of Love – ‘I’ve been told that you’ve been bold, with Harry, Mark and John’ – before countering, ‘Well that’s my second favourite line, from my fifth favourite song’ before joyously proclaiming, ‘Hope you like Lou!’) and I had to justify the plagiarism I guess. I dunno.”