from The Velvet Underground (1969)

selection made by Sally Strobelight:

Being tied to a human form [ego], the day to day. Human fears and loneliness. Some day we all face and let go (of) sometimes out of pure exhaustion, but we let go. That’s when we’re free. Death of the ego/birth of the spirit, self realization.

Candy says I’ve come to hate my body
And all that it requires in this world
Candy says I’d like to know completely
What others so discreetly talk about

I’m gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I’m gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I’m older
What do you think I’d see
If I could walk away from me

Candy says I hate the quiet places
That cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
That cause endless revisions in my mind

I’m gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
I’m gonna watch them pass me by
Maybe when I’m older
What do you think I’d see
If I could walk away from me

Posted at 9:59am.