Sunday Morning
The Velvet Underground Lyrics
Sunday morning
Brings the dawn in
It's just a restless feeling
By my side
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years
So close behind
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Sunday morning
And I'm falling
I've got a feeling
I don't want to know
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the streets you've crossed
Not so long ago
Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning
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Written by: John Cale, Lou Reed
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“Sunday Morning” is the opening song to The Velvet Underground's debut album "The Velvet Underground & Nico". The song describes the feeling of staying up all Saturday night into Sunday morning. Aptly, Reed & Cale wrote the song after one of those nights at 6 AM on a Sunday morning.
As Cale remembered in a 2006 interview with Uncut:
"Lou and I had been up all night on crank, as usual, so we decided to visit one of his old Syracuse college pals. Read Full Bio“Sunday Morning” is the opening song to The Velvet Underground's debut album "The Velvet Underground & Nico". The song describes the feeling of staying up all Saturday night into Sunday morning. Aptly, Reed & Cale wrote the song after one of those nights at 6 AM on a Sunday morning.
As Cale remembered in a 2006 interview with Uncut:
"Lou and I had been up all night on crank, as usual, so we decided to visit one of his old Syracuse college pals. Unfortunately, this guy’s upper-middle-class wife didn’t appreciate visits from old college pals high on amphetamines, at 3am, who wanted to play music. He had a guitar which Lou picked up and the evening inspired him to write the song."
The most polished song on the album, “Sunday Morning” was released as a single in December 1966. MGM/Verve spent little, if any effort to promote it and it sunk, unnoticed, on release. However, it grew in popularity through radio play by DJs like John Peel and Dick Summer, sowing the seeds for the Velvets' cult following.
The band made a live version of the song for their last concert with Lou, on the album Live at Max’s Kansas City, where Reed introduces the song with: “This is a song about when you’ve done something so sad and you wake up the next day and you remember it. Not to sound grim or anything… just, once in a while, you have one of those days.”
This can bring another meaning to the song. A song of regret and, maybe, of a new dawn that would represent forgiveness (“[…]always some around you who will call. It’s nothing at all”).
As Cale remembered in a 2006 interview with Uncut:
"Lou and I had been up all night on crank, as usual, so we decided to visit one of his old Syracuse college pals. Read Full Bio“Sunday Morning” is the opening song to The Velvet Underground's debut album "The Velvet Underground & Nico". The song describes the feeling of staying up all Saturday night into Sunday morning. Aptly, Reed & Cale wrote the song after one of those nights at 6 AM on a Sunday morning.
As Cale remembered in a 2006 interview with Uncut:
"Lou and I had been up all night on crank, as usual, so we decided to visit one of his old Syracuse college pals. Unfortunately, this guy’s upper-middle-class wife didn’t appreciate visits from old college pals high on amphetamines, at 3am, who wanted to play music. He had a guitar which Lou picked up and the evening inspired him to write the song."
The most polished song on the album, “Sunday Morning” was released as a single in December 1966. MGM/Verve spent little, if any effort to promote it and it sunk, unnoticed, on release. However, it grew in popularity through radio play by DJs like John Peel and Dick Summer, sowing the seeds for the Velvets' cult following.
The band made a live version of the song for their last concert with Lou, on the album Live at Max’s Kansas City, where Reed introduces the song with: “This is a song about when you’ve done something so sad and you wake up the next day and you remember it. Not to sound grim or anything… just, once in a while, you have one of those days.”
This can bring another meaning to the song. A song of regret and, maybe, of a new dawn that would represent forgiveness (“[…]always some around you who will call. It’s nothing at all”).
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Andrés Cortés
Sunday morning
Praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling
By my side
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the wasted years
So close behind
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Sunday morning
And I'm falling
I've got a feeling
I don't want to know
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the streets you've crossed
Not so long ago
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Sunday morning
비정한세상
Sunday morning
Praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling
By my side
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the wasted years
So close behind
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Sunday morning
And I'm falling
I've got a feeling
I don't want to know
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the streets you've crossed
Not so long ago
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you
Who will call
It's nothing at all
Sunday morning
RipScissor
This song always perfectly captured the feeling of trying to enjoy the last bit of the weekend with the looming dread of Monday in mind.
graham chapple
yea a song about friday and saturday night what costume will the poor girl wear and hide behind the door
Mike Schneider
@Hunter Vonnegut be careful not to engage in an art crime
No_guard_X
More like hugging something dear to you before the incoming icbms’s fallout Annihilate you
Rporta
listening to this on a Sunday at 3 am (technically Monday) lol
Hunter Vonnegut
Love The Velvet Underground?... Listen to Solar Kama Sutra
itsrainingmelons
Rebelliously listening to this on a Wednesday morning
graph100
currently saturday evening,,,, coulndt wait
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kyfaydfsoab
wow with these rebellious avatars
Antoine Krieger
Funny. Me too right now