The Black Angel's Death Song — Velvet Underground

The myriad choices of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate For him to choose What had he to lose

Not a ghost bloodied country All covered with sleep Where the black angel did weep Not an old city street in the east Gone to choose

And wandering's brother Walked on through the night With his hair in his face On a long splintered cut from the knife of G.T.

The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn Until we said so long To his skull-shrill yell

Shining brightly red-rimmed and Red-lined with the time Infused with the choice of the mind On ice skates scraping chunks From the bells

Cut mouth bleeding razor's Forgetting the pain Antiseptic remains cool goodbye So you fly To the cozy brown snow of the east Gone to choose, choose again

Sacrificials remains make it hard to forget Where you come from The stools of your eyes Serve to realize fame, choose again

And roverman's refrain of the sacrilege recluse For the loss of a horse Went the bowels and a tail of a rat Come again, choose to go

And if Epiphany's terror reduced you to shame Have your head bobbed and weaved Choose a side to be on

If the stone glances off Split didactics in two Leave the colors of the mouse t Don't scream, try between If you choose, if you choose, try to lose For the loss of remain come and start

Start the game I che che che che I Che che ka tak koh Choose to choose Choose to choose, choose to go