The Murder Mystery Lyrics & Chords By The Velvet Underground

Candy-screen wrappers of silkscreen fantastic, requiring memories both lovely and guilt free, lurid and lovely with twilight of ages, luscious and lovely and filthy with laughter, laconic giggles, ennui fort the passions, in order to justify most spurious desires, rectify moments, most serious and urgent to hail upon the face of most odious time, requiring replies most facile and vacuous with words nearly singed, with the heartbeat of passions, spew forth with the grace of a tart going under subject of a great concern, noble origin
(Denigrate obtuse and active, verbs, pronouns, skewer the sieve of the optical sewer, release the handle that holds all the gates up, puncture the eyeballs that seep all the muck up, read all the books and the people worth reading and still see the muck on the sky of the ceiling)

Mister Moonlight, succulent smooth and gorgeous (Please raise the flag, rosy red carpet envy)
Isn't it nice? We're number one and so forth (English used here, this messenger is nervous)
Isn't it sweet being unique (It's not fun at all out here in the hall)

For screeching and yelling and various offenses, lower the queen and bend her over the tub; against the state, the country, the committee; hold her head under the water, please, for an hour, for groveling and spewing and various offenses; puncture the bloat with the wing of a sparrow, the inverse, the obverse, the converse, the reverse, the sharpening wing of the edge of a sparrow, for suitable reckonings too numerous to mention, as the queen is fat, she is devoured by rats; there is one way to skin a cat or poison a rat; it is here forth, hear to three, forthrightly stated
(Relent and obverse and inverse and perverse and reverse the inverse of perverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and reverse and chop it and pluck it and cut it and spit it and sew it to joy on the edge of a cyclop and spin it to rage on the edge of a cylindrical minute)

Dear Mister Muse, fellow of wit and gentry (Put down that rag simpering, callow and morose)
Medieval ruse filling the shallow and empty (Who let you in? If I knew, then I could get out)
Fools that duel, duel in pools (The murder you see is a mystery to me)

To Rembrandt and Oswald, to peanuts and ketchup, sanctimonious sycophants stir in the bushes, up to the stand with your foot on the Bible; as king, I must order and constantly arouse, if you swear to catch up and throw up and up-up, a king full of virgin and kiss me and spin it, excuse to willow and wander, dark wonders divest me of robes, sutures, Harry and pig meat, the fate of a nation, rests hard on your bosoms, the king on his throne, puts his hand down his robe, the torture of inverse and silkscreen and Harry, and set the tongue squealing the reverse and inverse
Tantalize poets with visions of grandeur, their faces turn blue with the reek of the compost, as the living try hard to retain what the dead lost, with double-dead sickness from writing at what cost and business and business and reverse and reverse and set the brain reeling the inverse and perverse

English arcane, tantamount here to frenzy (Objections suffice apelike and tactile bassoon)
Passing for me, lascivious elder passion (Oboeing me cordon the virus' section)
Corpulent filth disguised as silk (Off to the left is what is not right)

Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the boredom, I shall poison the city and sink it with fire, for cordless and Harry and ape-pig and scissor, the messenger's wig seems fraught with desire, for blueberry picnics and pince-nez and magpies, the messenger's skirt, would you please hook it higher, for children and adults, all those under ninety, how truly disgusting. Would you please put it down? A stray in this fray is no condom worth saving, as king, I'm quite just, but it's just quite impossible, a robe and a robe and a robe and a bat, no double-class inverse could make lying worth dying
(With cheap simian melodies, hillbilly out gush, for illiterate ramblings, for cheap understanding, for misunderstanding, the simple, the inverse, the compost, the reverse, the obtuse and stupid, and business and business, and cheap stupid lyrics, and simple mass reverse while the real thing is dying)

Folksy knockwurst, peel back the skin of French (Exit the pig, enter the owl and gorgeous)
And what do you find? Follicles intertwining (King on the left, it on the right and primping)
Succulent prose wrapped up in robes (Adjusting his nose as he reads from his scroll)

Off with his head, take his head from his neck off, requiring memories both lovely and guilt free, put out his eyes, then cut his nose off, sanctimonious sycophants stir in the bushes, scoop out his brain, put a string where his ears were, all the king's horses and all the king's men, swing the whole mess at the end of the wire, scratch out his eyes with the tip of a razor, let the wire extend from the tip of a rose, Caroline, Caroline, Caroline, oh! but retains the remnants of what once was a nose, pass me my robe, fill my bath up with water
(Jumpsuit and pigmeat and making his fortune, while making them happy with the inverse and obverse and making them happy and making them happy with the coy and the stupid, just another dumb lackey who puts out the one thing while singing the other, but the real thing's alone and it is no man's brother)

Safety is nice, not an unwise word spoken (No one knows no nose is good news and senseless)
Scary bad dreams made safe in lovely songs (Extend the wine, drink here a toast to selfless)
No doom or gloom allowed in this room (Ten-year-old port is perfect in court)

Casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, cascade and cyanide, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, skull-silly wagon and justice and perverse and reverse the inverse and inverse and inverse, blueberry catalog, questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due cry, to battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing on minstrels and choking on dirt, disease please seems the order of the day, please the king, please the king, please the king day, casbah and cascade and rosehip and feeling, point of order, return the king here to the ceiling
Oh, not to be whistled or studied or hummed or remembered at nights when the eye is alone, but to skewer and ravage and savage and split with the grace of a diamond then bellicose wit, to stun and to stagger with words as such stone, that those who do hear cannot again return home

Hello to Ray, hello to Godiva and Angel (Razzamatazz, there's nothing on my shoulder)
Who let you in? Isn't it nice, the party? (Lust is a must, shaving my head's made me bolder)
Aren't the lights pretty at night? (Will you kindly read what it was I brought thee?)

Sick leaf and sorrow and pincers not scissors, regard and refrain from the daughters of marriage, regards for the elders and youngest in carriage, regard and regard for the inverse and perverse and obverse, and diverse, of reverse and reverse, regard from the sick, the dumb, and the camel from pump's storing water, like brain is too marrow to x-ray and filthy and cutting and then peeling to skin and to skin and to bone and to structure to livid and pallid and turgid and structured and structured and structured and structured and structured and regard and refrain, the sick and the dumb, inverse, reverse and perverse
(Contempt, contempt, and contempt for the seething for writhing and reeling and two-bit reportage, for sick with the body and sinister holy, the drown burst blue babies now dead on the seashore, the valorous horseman, who hang from the ceiling, the pig on the carpet, the dusty pale jissom, that has no effect for the sick with the see-saw, the inverse, obverse converse, reverse of reverse the diverse and converse of reverse and perverse and sweet pyrotechnics, and let's have another of inverse, converse, diverse, perverse and reverse, Hell's graveyard is damned as they chew on their brains, the slick and the scum, reverse, inverse and perverse)

Plowing while it's done away (Sick upon the staircase)
Dumb and ready pig meat (Sick upon the staircase)
Sick upon the carpet (Blood upon the pillow)
Climb into the casket (Climb into the parapet)

Safe within the parapet (See the church bells gleaming)
Sack is in the parapet (Knife that scrapes a sick plate)
Pigs are out and growling (Dentures full of air holes)
Slaughter by the seashore (The tailor couldn't mend straight)

See the lifeguard drowning (Shoot her full of air holes)
Sea is full of fishes (Climbing up the casket)
Fishes full of china (Take me to the casket)
China plates are falling (Teeth upon her red throat)

All fall down (Screw me in the daisies)
Sick and shiny carpet (Rip upon her holler)
Lie before my eyes-eyes (Snip the seas fantastic)
Lead me to the ceiling (Treat her like a sailor)

Walk upon the wall wall (Full and free and nervous)
Tender as the green grass (Out to make his fortune)
Drink the whisky horror (Either this or that way)
See the young girls dancing (Sickly or in good health)

Flies upon the beaches (Piss upon a building)
Beaches are for sailors (Like a dog in training)
Nuns across the sea-wall (Teach to heel or holler)
Black hood horseman raging (Yodel on a sing song)

Swordsman eating fire (Down upon the carpet)
Fire on the carpet (Tickle polyester)
Set the house ablazing (Sick within the parapet)
Seize and bring it flaming (Screwing for a dollar)

Gently to the ground ground (Sucking on a firehose)
Dizzy Bell Miss Fortune (Chewing on a rubber line)
Fat and full of love-juice (Tied to chairs and rare bits)
Drip it on the carpet (Pay another player)

Down below the firehose (Oh you're such a good lad)
Weep and whisky fortune (Here's another dollar)
Sail me to the moon, dear (Tie him to the bedpost)
Drunken dungeon sailors (Sick with witches' covens)

Headless Roman horsemen (Craving for a raw meat)
The king and queen are empty (Bones upon the metal)
Their heads are in the outhouse (Sick upon the circle)
Fish upon the water (Down upon the carpet)

Bowl upon the savior (Down below the parapet)
Toothless wigged Laureate (Waiting for your bidding)
Plain and full of fancy (Pig upon the carpet)
Name upon a letterhead (Tumescent railroad)

Impressing all the wheat germ (Neuro-anaesthesia analog)
Love you for a nickel (Ready for a good look)
Maul you for a quarter (Drooling at the birches)
Set the casket flaming (Swinging from the birches)
Do not go gentle blazing (Succulent Nebraska)