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Track: Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
Artist: Lou Reed
Album: Magic and Loss

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Name: Lou Reed
Spotify Genres: glam rock, proto-punk, art rock
Followers: 2,028,946
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American musician, songwriter, poet, and photographer Born March 2, 1942, Brooklyn, New York - Died October 27, 2013, Southampton, New York Reed's music career began in 1958, when he recorded with his high school band, [a918897]. During his time at Syracuse University in the early 1960's he formed a series of bands, but was most deeply impacted by his professor, American poet and writer [a=Delmore Schwartz]. Following college, he became a stock songwriter/musician for [l206231], and then in 1964, with [a=John Cale], formed [a39766]. In 1970, he left the Velvet Underground during the recording of [url=https://www.discogs.com/master/35308-The-Velvet-Underground-Loaded]Loaded[/url]. He signed a contract with RCA Records in 1971 and continued to perform until shortly before his death. He was married to Bettye Kronstad (ca. 1973-1974), [a1870956] (1980-1994), and [a=Laurie Anderson] (2008).

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Release: Lou Reed - Magic And Loss
Year: 1992
Genres: Rock

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LYRICS

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