Dime Store Mystery Lyrics by Lou Reed

Dime Store Mystery Lyrics

    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

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