Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams — Velvet Underground

Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay

Speak not of misfortune Speak not of your woes Just steal yourself a holy death Crouching by the door

Ride and sway to music's pain Searing with the sides Caress death with a lover's touch For it shall be your bride

Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay

Purple is to yellow As sunlight is to rain Happiness and death you'll find Loveliness in pain

Slash the golden whip it snaps Across the lover's sides The earth trembles without tremors Preparing for to die

Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay

Salty ocean waves and sprays Come crashing to the shore Bullies kick and kill young loves Down on bar-room floors

The gleaming knife cuts early Through the midnight air Cutting entrance in its path Blood runs without care

Violence echoes through the land In heart of every man The knife, it stabs existent wounds Puss runs through meant to tear

Excrements filters through the brain Hatred bends the spine Filth covers the body pores To be cleansed by dying time

Wrap your troubles in dreams Send them all away Put them in a bottle And across the seas they'll stay