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Artist: Lou Reed
Canonical path: /lou-reed/cremation
Related lyric paths: 6
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Cremation
Read Cremation lyrics by Lou Reed on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Cremation
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Well the coal black sea waits for me me me
The coal black sea waits forever
The waves hit the shore
Crying more more more
But the coal black sea waits forever
The tornados come up the coast they run
Hurricanes rip the sky forever
Through the weathers change
The sea remains the same
The coal black sea waits forever
There are ashes split through collective guilt
People rest at sea forever
Since they burnt you up
Collect you in a cup
For you the coal black sea has no terror
Will your ashes float like some foreign boat
Or will they sink absorbed forever
Will the atlantic coast
Have its final boast
Nothing else contained you ever
Now the coal black sea waits for me me me
The coal black sea waits forever
When i leave this joint
At some further point
The same coal black sea will it be waiting
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Lou Reed performs "Cremation", and this lyric page sits inside the Lou Reed catalog on LyroVerse.
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