Lou Reed - Dime Store Mystery

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He was lying banged and battered, skewered and bleeding
talking crippled on the Cross
Was his mind reeling and heaving hallucinating
fleeing what a loss

The things he hadn`t touched or kissed his senses
slowly stripped away
Not like Buddha not like Vishnu
life wouldn`t rise through him again

I find it easy to believe
that he might question his beliefs
The beginning of the Last Temptation
Dime Story Mystery

The duality of nature, Godly nature,
human nature splits the soul
Fully human, fully divine and divided
the great immortal soul

Split into pieces, whirling pieces, opposites
attract
From the front, the side, the back
the mind itself attacks

I know the feeling, I know it from before
descartes through Hegel belief is never sure
Dime Store Mystery, Last Temptation

I was sitting drumming thinking thumping pondering
the Mysteries of Life
Outside the city shrieking screaming whispering
the Mysteries of Life

There`s a funeral tomorrow
at St. Patrick`s the bells will ring for you
Ah, what must you have been thinking
when you realized the time had come for you

I wish I hadn`t thrown away my time
on so much Human and so much less Divine
The end of the Last Temptation
The end of a Dime Store Mystery

Release History

1989

New York

1. Romeo Had Juliette (3:11)
2. Halloween Parade (3:33)
3. Dirty Blvd. (3:29)
4. Endless Cycle (4:03)
5. There Is No Time (3:46)
6. Last Great American Whale (3:42)
7. Beginning Of A Great Adventure (4:57)
8. Busload Of Faith (4:50)
9. Sick Of You (3:26)
10. Hold On (3:24)
11. Good Evening Mr. Waldheim (4:36)
12. Xmas In February (2:57)
13. Strawman (5:54)
14. Dime Store Mystery (5:03)

0000-00-00

New York St. James Theater 23.3.1989

1. Romeo Had Juliet
2. Halloween Parade (3:33)
3. Dirty Blvd. (3:29)
4. Endless Cycle (4:03)
5. There Is No Time (3:46)
6. Video Violence (5:36)
7. Busload Of Faith (4:50)
8. Strawman (5:54)
9. Dime Store Mystery (5:03)

1992

New York City Blues

1. Romeo And Juliette
2. Halloween Parade (3:33)
3. Dirty Blvd. (3:29)
4. Endless Cycle (4:03)
5. There Is No Time (3:46)
6. The Last American Whale
7. Beginning Of A Great Adventure (4:57)
8. Busload Of Faith (4:50)
9. Strawman (5:54)
10. Dime Store Mystery (5:03)
11. I Love You, Suzanne (3:15)
12. One For My Baby
13. Doing The Things That We Want To Do
14. Rock & Roll (6:10)
15. Video Violence (5:36)

2000

Wild Goin' Wild

1. Paranoia Key Of E (4:28)
2. Turn To Me (4:21)
3. Set The Twilight Reeling (5:04)
4. Dime Store Mystery (5:03)
5. The Blue Mask (5:00)
6. Egg Cream (5:18)
7. Who Am I?
8. Romeo Had Juliet
9. Riptide (7:46)
10. Rock Minuet (6:55)
11. Mystic Child (5:02)
12. Mad (4:29)
13. The Last Shot (3:22)
14. Tatters (5:56)
15. Sweet Jane (4:38)
16. Vicious (3:13)