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Composer: Lou Reed

Lou Reed - I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) lyrics



Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes
I have felt the full knowledge
And force of their expression
And yet been unable to possess it
And have felt it leave me
As so many other things have left
The letter half-read
The bottle half-drunk
Finding
Finding in the commonest objects of the universe
A circle of analogies
Of metaphors
Ooohhh
For that expression
Which has been willfully
withheld from me
The access to the inner soul denied

I wanna know, ooohhh
I wanna know
I wanna know, oh
I wanna know

In consideration
In consideration of the faculties and impulses
Of the human soul
Of the human soul
In consideration
Of our arrogance
Of our arrogance
Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason
We have all overlooked the propensity
We saw no need for it
The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness
Perverseness
Through its promptings we act without
Comprehensible object
We act for the reason we should not
We act for the reason we should not
For certain minds this is absolutely irre-, irre-
irresistible
irresistible
The conviction of the wrong
Or impolicy of an action
Is often the unconquerable force
The unconquerable force
It is a primitive impulse
It is a primitive impulse
Primitive impulse
The overwhelming tendency
The overwhelming tendency to do
Wrong for the wrong's sake
To do wrong for the wrong's sake
We persist in acts
Because we feel that we
should not persist in them
Because we feel we, feel we
should not persist, per-, persist in them, ah
Ooohhh

So I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know

I wanna, I wanna know
I wanna, I
Ooohhh, we persist in action
We persist in action
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Ooohhh
Wrong, wrong
Oh we persist in action
Ah yeah yeah
When you know that it's wrong
Songs list of album: The Raven (2003)
         Title Rating
01   Overture lyrics   -
02   Edgar Allan Poe lyrics   -
03   Call on Me lyrics   -
04   The Valley of Unrest lyrics   -
05   A Thousand Departed Friends lyrics   -
06   Change lyrics   -
07   The Bed lyrics   -
08   Perfect Day lyrics  
5.00
09   The Raven lyrics   -
10   Balloon lyrics   -
11   Broadway Song lyrics   -
12   Blind Rage lyrics   -
13   Burning Embers lyrics   -
14   Vanishing Act lyrics   -
15   Guilty lyrics   -
16   I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) lyrics   -
17   Science of the Mind lyrics   -
18   Hop Frog lyrics   -
19   Tripitena's Speech lyrics   -
20   Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song) lyrics   -
21   Guardian Angel lyrics   -
 

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