Lou Reed Hang On To Your Emotions
When your imagination has too much to say When the chill of the night meets the sweat of the day And you have trouble understanding what other people have to say You'd better hang on to your emotions When a demagogue inside your head has taken charge And by default what you say or do is criticized And this litany of failures is recited a thousand times You'd better hang on to your emotions Could it be you've never felt like that That your mind's a cage - inside the cage a cat That spits and scratches all it can get at And that's you And your emotions Could it be you've never felt like that Your mind's a cage - inside the cage a rat Rabidly trying to get it You and your emotions You and your emotions When your imagination has too much to say When that facile voice inside your head says give your life away You might think to ask - how it got that way What books it has read - that make it that way And where it got the right - to speak to anyone that way You'd better hold on to your emotions Hold on to your emotions When a night city's breeze blows across the room And a 5 am moon and sun start their swoon You hear your lover's breath And not a moment too soon You get to release all your emotions
