Kill Your Sons

Album: Sally Can't Dance (1974)
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  • All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electro shock
    They say, they let you live at home, with mom and dad
    Instead of mental hospital
    But every time you tried to read a book
    You couldn't get to page 17
    'Cause you forgot, where you were
    So you couldn't even read
    Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons
    Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
    They're gonna kill, kill your sons
    Until they run run run run run run run run away

    Mom informed me on the phone
    She didn't know what to do about dad
    Took an axe and broke the table
    Aren't you glad you're married
    And sister, she got married on the island
    And her husband takes the train
    He's big and he's fat and he doesn't even have a brain
    They're gonna kill your sons
    Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
    Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
    Until they run away

    Creedmore treated me very good
    But Paine Whitney was even better
    And when I flipped on PHC
    I was so sad I didn't even get a letter
    All of the drugs, that we took, it really was lots of fun
    But when they shoot you up with thorizene on crystal smoke
    You choke like a son of a gun
    Don't you know, they're gonna kill your sons
    Don't you know, they're gonna kill, kill your sons
    They're gonna kill, kill your sons
    Until they run run run run run run run run away
    Publisher: SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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Comments: 1

  • Funkspiel from Cambridge, MaI'm puzzled why on "A Night With Lou Reed" video, he sings "You're going to kill your sons" and everywhere else it's "They're going to kill your sons".

    He sometimes sings PCP instead of PHC, maybe he wants to forget that place.
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