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Lou Reed - I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum) Lyrics

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  • Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes
  • I have felt the full knowledge
  • And force of their expression
  • And yet been unable to possess it
  • And have felt it leave me
  • As so many other things have left
  • The letter half-read
  • The bottle half-drunk
  • Finding
  • Finding in the commonest objects of the universe
  • A circle of analogies
  • Of metaphors
  • Ooohhh
  • For that expression
  • Which has been willfully
  • withheld from me
  • The access to the inner soul denied
  • I wanna know, ooohhh
  • I wanna know
  • I wanna know, oh
  • I wanna know
  • In consideration
  • In consideration of the faculties and impulses
  • Of the human soul
  • Of the human soul
  • In consideration
  • Of our arrogance
  • Of our arrogance
  • Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason
  • We have all overlooked the propensity
  • We saw no need for it
  • The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness
  • Perverseness
  • Through its promptings we act without
  • Comprehensible object
  • We act for the reason we should not
  • We act for the reason we should not
  • For certain minds this is absolutely irre-, irre-
  • irresistible
  • irresistible
  • The conviction of the wrong
  • Or impolicy of an action
  • Is often the unconquerable force
  • The unconquerable force
  • It is a primitive impulse
  • It is a primitive impulse
  • Primitive impulse
  • The overwhelming tendency
  • The overwhelming tendency to do
  • Wrong for the wrong's sake
  • To do wrong for the wrong's sake
  • We persist in acts
  • Because we feel that we
  • should not persist in them
  • Because we feel we, feel we
  • should not persist, per-, persist in them, ah
  • Ooohhh
  • So I wanna kn

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