Satellite Of Love Lyrics

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Cover art for Satellite Of Love lyrics by Lou Reed

A satellite is defined by the object it orbits. It is forever falling toward its attractor, yet paradoxically never gets any nearer. To get closer, it would need to lose its own forward motion, and would soon be burned.

Going "way up to mars" is adventurous. Filling it with "parking cars" transorms the exotic to the mundane, worthy not of getting off the sofa. tv is voyeuristic--a decidedly one-way communication.

When one is driven out of one's mind, it can be by a thing one loves, despises or both. To drive you really out of your mind, probably both. After such a drive, one parks it on Mars.

--adrian

Song Meaning

A satellite is defined by the object it orbits. A physicist will tell you that the satellite is forever falling toward its attractor, yet paradoxically we can all see that it never gets any nearer. To get closer, it would need to lose its own forward motion, and would soon be burned.

SOL, SOL, SOL, out of luck

Going "way up to mars" is adventurous. Filling it with "parking cars" transforms the exotic to the mundane, worthy not of getting off the sofa. tv is voyeuristic--a decidedly one-way communication. One can drop dead watching life on tv....