The Black Angel's Death Song Lyrics

The song The Black Angel's Death Song is performed by The Velvet Underground in the album named Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes in the year 2001 .



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 trails
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




The Velvet Underground - Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes

Oct 2001

  1. I'm Waiting For The Man (Live)
  2. Too Much
  3. What Goes On
  4. I Can't Stand It
  5. Some Kinda Love
  6. Foggy Notion
  7. Femme Fatale
  8. After Hours
  9. I'm Sticking With You
  10. Sunday Morning
  11. Sister Ray (Live (1969/The Family Dog))
  12. Follow The Leader
  13. White Light/White Heat
  14. Venus In Furs
  15. Heroin
  16. Sister Ray (Live (1969/The Matrix))
  17. Rock And Roll
  18. New Age
  19. Over You
  20. The Black Angel's Death Song
  21. I'm Waiting For The Man (Live)
  22. Ride Into The Sun
  23. Sister Ray / Foggy Notion


The Black Angel's Death Song