Venus in Furs
The Velvet Underground Lyrics

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now bleed for me

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

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Written by: Lou Reed

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01Sunday Morning2:53

02I'm Waiting for My Man4:37

03Femme Fatale3:01

04Venus in Furs5:07

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05Run, Run, Run4:18

06All Tomorrow's Parties5:55

07Heroin9:42

08There She Goes Again2:30

09I'll Be Your Mirror2:17

10Black Angel's Death Song3:10

11European Son to Delmore Schwartz7:40

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Kena Molina

50w↑21

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
… Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
… I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
… Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
… Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now bleed for me
… I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
… Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

A. T.

33w↑4

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now bleed for me

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

All comments from YouTube:

Blake Elliott

22w↑83

This song is… It’s just fucking magic… For so many reasons. The ultimate song written about and dedicated to wealthy and bourgeoise, yet internally submissive or remorsefully powerful/dominant men, walking through a party searching for his mistress that will (even if only for one night) cure his aching heart. Fuck, man… NOBODY was writing lyrics like this or composing SOUND like that on this level back then for the kind of audience they were making it for. NOBODY but them, not in such a direct/targeted way. Fuck… 🌹💎🥃🚬

Jose Cortez

These lyrics, the music, is just something i never heard before. I love everything about this song.

Paul TheSkeptic

I mean Lou Reed. Throughout his career his lyrics were pretty spectacular. But yeah there was something kind of magical about them. Had it been off in any direction, it might not have worked. Had they been these really accomplished and experienced musicians it might not have had that magic. But had they been a little more amateurish, they might not have been able to bring it all together. It was this wonderful blend of raw creativity and absolute fearlessness that happened in the right place and at the right time. Like a rare planetary conjunction all the elements just happened to come together. A gift of fate.

DaveDexterMusic

18w↑3

given it was based on an 1870 book, the concepts at play in this nearly a century later probably weren't as surprising as you'd think

Kyle Porter

1y↑132

My theme song growing up.I would Walk around in the olympic mountains alone with my headphones on singing and dancing to this all the time.

Oleksii Shekhovtsov

1y↑215

I could listen to that chorus for a thousand years 🤤

Philip J. Fry

24w↑2

@Christian Rouse A thousand dreams, that would awake him

Christian Rouse

27w↑2

I see what you did there

Rudolph Kopp

36w↑1

@Anurag Deshpande ⁰comin up

Anurag Deshpande

39w↑1

@Yahya_Japheth Bathory +n

Yahya_Japheth Bathory

44w↑1

PaRaDoX

1y↑162

Way too Dark for the "Summer of Love", they were the cutting edge-Simply one of the most important bands ever-You can hear there influence everywhere. Lou is a legendary lyricist n right there w/ Dylan...

Andy Snadden

@Mike Delossantos The sixties hippies did become Trump supporters. You are lost and completely full of bullshit.

L V

20w

@C Bo A few months to be precise ( March 1967 )

Mike Delossantos

23w↑2

Both bands represent the mid and late 60s as they actually were, not as popular history portrays it. VU has a much more closed in, claustriogic darkness, much like city they resided in, whereas The Doors literally sound like seedy underbelly that has grown up in post war LA. The speed freaks were already there by then and anyone paying attention knew these summers held anything but love. When you read about violence it's all Vietnam related. But it was quite literally war in the streets: the murder and violent crime rate hits it's apex around this time, and it musta seemed like the very fabric of society was unraveling. That peace and love shit was chemically induced nonsense,and the Boomers ran away from the insurrection as fast as they lit the match. In their old age they completed the irony as the force behind Trump's victory, allowing him to pick up where the segregationists had left. Now they wallow in the fake Woodstock narrative they've constructed. But the way I see it, this generation of self involved wierdos have started enough fires for one lifetime. Can someone please see these people off to stage left ? Yeah you guys had some good music, but on balance you guys are a net negative...

Ps I said "on balance" and "net negative" - you guys went to college for $300 a year didn't you? That means not EVERYONE was bad. I'm sure you're just wonderful.

Btw Mo's drumming makes this song and I haven't seen anyone mention her. It's the really odd and unique drumming and that goddamn viola that made me realize what music could really be...

Annelle 1030

24w

@Gabby Fringette so true, this is all over The End.

Mr Mojo Risin

27w↑1

The Doors were the darkest band at that time.

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Ivan Milatović

24w↑61

As Stravinsky said about Beethoven's Grosse Fuge (I paraphrase), this was avant-garde when it appeared, it's avant-garde today and will be avant-garde in a hundred years. I cannot imagine what this sounded like in 1967.

TheEamoB

4y↑104

Oh man! This is what this wonderful thing caused music is about. It's about art, it's about revolution, it's about life. All life. As soon as that guitar and booming drums hit, with the screeching viola, I am transported into something terrifying but utterly compelling. And that is in 2019, never mind 1967.

Seth Donnelly

So glad you're tuning into this masterpiece in 2019!

TownesVanZandt

4y↑1

Good description. I never really listened to any other TVU songs... but I love this one. Terrifying is a good word for it.

María Genovés Cánovas

36w↑48

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

TomTom

That is how it feels after a 3 days drug bender..Don't ask me how I know , I just do 🙂

Chellyx

23w↑11

I love this song sooo much. I’m so glad this was mentioned in the Netflix show chilling adventures of Sabrina. This song deserves to be heard. This definitely has become my theme song for the year 2020 and 2021, and maybe even 2022

Leah Graves

4y↑41

I was deep into this album all of 2006-2007. This was my favorite.

Anurag Deshpande

32w↑2

did you play oblivion then

ROWDY RICO

4y↑56

So many people and the media make the 1960's out to be some beautiful lovey fairy tale. To me the 60s was a dark time in many ways, especially spiritually. There was a lot of vulnerability under that vale of innocence, a lot of sheep finding themselves in the company of all the wrong shepherds. All those drugs and the internal raging of so many youngsters searching for truth in the darker shadows that Morrison delved into lead to the Manson's and people like the zodiac. There were serious negative waves back then, not that there wasn't always and still to this day, but they tend to be overlooked, or separated from the whole when looking back to this time. To me this song is the perfect embodiment of the "lost ones" of that time, and indeed all times. People who played with the fire and got burned, lost their minds, curiosity killed the cat type deal. It's a spooky song shrouded is mysticism, that's why it's great, and so alluring. The pied piper sits in envy of this tune.

No1U

22w↑3

@Alan Smith there is nothing 'exciting' about drug addiction and terrible environment. Wtf

Ivan Milatović

24w

In the Todd Haynes documentary Maureen Tucker and John Cale and Mary Woronov underline how much that Warhol Factory set hated the hippies and saw themselves as opposed to the "peace and love" vibe of the west coast. VU were as much 60s as the hippies but tapped into that downbeat side of the time.

Z Z

31w↑2

@Alan Smith As someone who grew up without social media, I can tell you the world felt a little more mysterious without it...and it was kinda cool.

Charles Castle

2y↑1

I'm 18, I feel like you did back then.

Tracy-Paul O' Brien

@Alan Smith it's just that-big brothers confuse /ed/ing to some he appears to be everywhere always altimes. Yu just gorra know how to spot when, is glass eye is shrouded in confusetorry, just look at the mice in the story, they do/don't confound, they are all around. That's the story of/like some mourning story in the afternoon. Not of any old buffoon like some loon, a trained eye like of an Anthropologist sees these sways in all their days, like butter for the bred, all in the 'ead. The challenges, hard ones are the ones I seek to meet/a

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Małgorzata Zapert

14w↑9

Psychedelic in its best.... Masterpiece ❤

Awarewolf

12w↑7

This is nothing short of a mystical experience, and how fortunate we all are to have this accessable to us at all times, every hour of the day, when we want.

Walker

1y↑111

Nothing in the world like this song.

Yohan Barros

36w

@Anna S not even close, but, still a great song!

Anna S

36w↑1

Or New Dawn Fades

Yohan Barros

40w↑5

For sure, there's nothing close to this masterpiece in this whole world,.

Roberto Morleo

48w↑1

Try to listen Pale blue eyes!!

Micah Anthony Labaron Weeks

5y↑91

The Velvets and Lou Reed and Nico were very good and cool. I wish I would have been in New York City around this art scene back in those days. That would have been nice.

delon cigarette

19w

same what a dream

night landz

30w↑1

and they knew 1800s literature

MCPaul Djrick musicmaker

41w↑2

You'd be weird up heroin now

Fowlae

48w↑1

@Keith Bentley Lol I love Nico's music. That doesn't mean it was cool for her to introduce her son to heroin though:)

Keith Bentley

48w↑1

@Fowlae Oh dear, boo hoo! Let's only listen to music or read literature by people who have exactly the same beliefs as us, that should make you a well-rounded person. GROW THE FUCK UP!

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Quag

20w↑5

Playing this song immediately after All Tomorrow's Parties is amazing. Gives an entirely different feel.

MadamPluto

5y↑20

I love this song. <3

Alessandra Esposito

23w↑6

In love with this song ❤

Kena Molina

50w↑21

Stephanie Bates

8y↑27

I love this song!!!

delainepep22

Great song. When Johnny Depp performed this with Jeff Beck it was phenomenal. Brilliant song

Zeb J

1y↑17

"Taste the whip, now bleed for me." Think I found the Velvet Underground ~1979, hight of punk (I was into Banshees who covered this later & to perform with John Cale - think he produced some Banshee - have to dig out my vinyl). Love both but the whole album turned me on to VU/Lou Reed forever.

cardfans encore

14w

Cale produced half the material on banshees "the rapture" a 1995 album. The last studio banshees album.

Speedy Steve

17w↑1

Cale played the viola on this track.

_Girl in Space_

18w↑20

Omg I love that Ramin Djawadi used this masterpiece as a base for the HOTD trailer music... It's a VIBE 💯🔥🐉

Mind Mesh

5y↑67

All hail the droning sound of urban doom!!

A vida É bela

19w↑3

Foda pra caráleo. Amo demais The Velvet Underground (e conheci ao acaso).

Erick Costa

11w

quando eu escutei, simplesmente repetiu o dia inteiro, eu tinha dropado um doce, uma das melhores sensações que já senti.

Carl Connor

1y↑20

Classic in every way..Genius❤

Paul Lawrence

15w↑2

This is the only song I know of that can actually HEAL emotional pain.

Oscar Soto

18w↑3

Nunca la habia escuchado hasta hoy pero puedo decir que me e estado perdiendo de esta obra de arte !!!

Docuducu

18w

Joya de canción. Hipnótica y atemporal.

Velimir Zupanovich

4y↑47

Every time I listen to this song I want to live again. Is that wierd ?

Anny Soto

16w↑1

Escuche esta canción a ojos cerrados y se siente una vibración muy bonita,recordé los doors..

nicholasyoder

3y↑8

Always loved this song

Frankie Teardrop Goes to Hollywood

That bassline is among my favourites.

alehunter15

6y↑340

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years ...

Adam Marquez

39w

@Margarita Magdalena 🇷🇺 thats youre opinion mine is that it is ok

Adam Marquez

39w

@Margarita Magdalena 🇷🇺 ok

Margarita Magdalena 🇷🇺

39w

@Douglas P You sound like you still live with your mom.

Margarita Magdalena 🇷🇺

39w

@Adam Marquez I don't think that being tired of life necessarily makes one suicidal.

Margarita Magdalena 🇷🇺

39w

@Grovilite What happened in 2019 that made people tired?

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Mel Vel

5y↑14

I ❤️this song by velvet underground it's the best!

Jetzii Ophelia

22w

This song is magic. 🖤

Andy Snadden

The reason this song works so well is because of Moe`s perfect tempo

A. T.

33w↑4

J_ Active

2y↑26

The first thing my husband bought for me on my 16th birthday perfect day out song xxx

PunchyPizzaIN Pizza

1y↑12

16 eh

J_ Active

Our song xxx

Kebo Music

2y↑431

“everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band”. Brian Eno

Nigel Dubois

38w

This has to be taken with a grain of salt but it’s a nice idea

C Bo

40w

@torkeln I doubt anyone sought out heroin after hearing a song. Well, maybe some. I would have.

WegrennerX

49w

Pffff you are so cool to come up with this again…

GAT

50w

10'000 :)

Zane Goodeker

1y↑1

@salmon pfft,was this pro or against reunification?

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cilantro boy

41w↑8

Gives me chills

Anneka Elliot

6w↑1

I always thought Bowie was behind this, but it is a 1966 album and I like the dark elements of it

Bad Lieutenant

Bowie was recording as far back as 1963, but when this came out, Bowie was still acting out his Anthony Newley phase singing songs like The Laughing Gnome.

James Kochi

3y↑11

Love this song

yael Palombo

22w

Poesia e musica, immortale Lou💖🌹🙏

David

17w

Mmmm dormir mil anos tão bom 🤤

Tim Costa

Perfect blend of a psychedelic sedation

jack sullivan

5y↑39

Eyes Wide Shut comes to mind every time I hear this song.
It's the music that should be played at every Cult's sex rituals.

TomTom

Agree..this song is pure sex. Dirty, dark, slimy and a bit scary..what a good orgy should be :-)

Matteo Corsi

35w

Perfect

Silvia Bevilacqua

31w↑3

È un capolavoro!!

Jay Bee

1y↑6

If nothing else survived from the 60s, this in itself world be enough. What a time we had.....

Scott Mackie

3y↑6

Beautiful ❤

Fighter jet Pilot

18w

It's great, real great music.

Patrick Harrison

39w↑5

Last Days took me here... what a song, what a band, what an era..

Sky Dread

16w↑2

First time I listen to this song and damn it is heavy.
I have seen comments saying it is inspired from a book.

Without any ref, I thought it was just a married guy going to do some BDSM (his love) with a mistress because his wife could not provide this kind of feeling.

I was picturing a guy going down a brothel looking for his favorite mistress.
Half epic half shameful feeling but what a piece for the 60s wow

w origuela

42w↑15

this is so hypnotic

John F

47w↑18

Can’t believe this was recorded in the mid 60s.

Beanchowder

20w↑1

Notably, this was pre-Hendrix

Narciso Moreira

2y↑4

como alguém pode da deslike lol

Lizzy M.

Great instruments!

Kannan Bhadran

14w↑1

coming back after 6 years . HoTD brought me back to this masterpiece .🤤

Grumblyzeus

4y↑141

First heard this in the early nineties, thanks to The Doors movie.

John Smith

24w

@Acidphaze "Come on Jim, these ppl are vampires. We got a gig tomorrow. Lets make the myths, remember?"
"I dont wanna go guys, i dunno what will happen, Maybe Death"?
"Its not death man, you drink too much."
"Hi. Im Nico. This place is boring, some of us are going downtown to a new club. You want to come?
"Sure"
"Vodka"?
"You"re dead"
Cannot believe i could remember that. In my teens Doors movie was Godly for us, especially after doinh LSD

Acidphaze

1y↑3

Same here, heard this song from the movie. I remember the scene "Come on Jim, let's get out of here they are a bunch of vampires."

Dionysus incarnate

1y↑1

@Vinny Cullinan was both

Vinny Cullinan

1y↑2

I think it was there other song heroin in the movie

John Cabral

1y↑2

Yes. Me too.

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Lizzy M.

Great background instruments!

Rikki-Tikki is Major Drama

4y↑13

pure legend

Kanishk Kumar

44w↑9

Listening to this song for the first time is like having a brick thrown on your head

Bill Shane

35w

Good analogy

claire bradshaw

31w↑2

i am tired i am weary i could sleep for a thousand years. a thousand dreams that would awake me different colours made of tears

Snuggles McSquishbottom

16w↑4

"Beat me!" begged the masochist. "No!" the sadist replied.

Fayaz Ahmed

18w↑6

When I hear house of dragon trailer be like wait i heard this before somewhere then I realise this masterpiece

Julian

15w

wait which trailer??

Bill Scannell

2y↑17

Song is so fuckin' cool...

Tristezza Lamento Luciano

37w↑7

One of the sexiest songs ever

helehium

10w

amo

lagilbert67

1y↑4

Nobody ever seems to get that these two are in love

Willie GoodTimes

23w

Good book,I believe he was Marianne Faithful's great uncle.
Her mother was a Von Masoch.

Death dream myxomatosis

24w

I am tired I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years a thousand dreams that would awake me

Pascal ÓMathghamhna

3y↑37

"Taste the whip in love not given lightly."

Lotus Ohm

3y↑10

Velvet Underground & NIco always brings me back.

evita l

12w

truly enchanting

Jimi H

45w↑3

If they don’t play this at my funeral… I’m not going!!! , to the person reading this in 15 years time … it’s all your fault !!! Goodbye

Holger Bednarik

38w↑3

We were there. Those were times 🙏❤️🤪

nnvbnn

23w↑1

I was impressed by the BDSM´s inspiration of Judas Priest´Hell Bent for Leather but this masterpiece is eleven years earlier.

Tyson

5y↑58

Peace and love to all people. Whether you use chemicals or not. We all come from the same thing. Peace and love to everything that's every moved. xoxo ty.

Dionysus incarnate

1y↑4

Peace and love to You

Tracy-Paul O' Brien

To the 3 emergency responders, you all condemned this person for making a comment, then, for making a response as he did. The 3 of you responded, can I just inquire of you, do you partake in alciholic beverages?

StraightReject

David Merriman I should imagine the universe!

Sybille Nova

1y↑13

"DIFFERENT COLOURS MADE OF TEARS"...sounds good..maybe I should use these words for the subtitle of my next artopening or book on my art (and life)....

xBMPR

1y↑2

Lou was an amazing poet

LEONARDO MOLNAR COBO

1y↑8

this is like a cult song, made for a divinity, it's obscure, sounds like a summerian or greek antique song

Neil Rosales

13w↑1

I thought this would be the opening theme for HotD but it seems that it wouldn't. Awesome cover by Ramin Djawdi tho

Moyza

1y↑1

🎶 Kiss the boot 🎵 of shiny, shiny leather 🎶

dankscythe ok

2y↑3

This song derserves more than 2.5k likes.

Ray Lewis

4y↑17

Shine shiny shiny boots of leather

Happium

13w↑3

Now Ramin Djawadi has drawn inspiration from it and composed for House of Dragon.

Dirasa Dirasa

SpotifyLink?

Bad Lieutenant

24w↑2

At my age I'm more into M & S than S & M 😂😂😂

Jenaleigh Suitter

1y↑2

This was in my dreams in the snow

Nyabin Lia Rodriguez

11w

Legendary

Seht

43w↑5

like half a century ahead of its time, holy shit

Z Z

31w↑1

Or it was exactly of its time. We've regressed

Carolyn Zaremba

3y↑3

I have always had a thing for leather bustiers. Ah well, another space/time continuum.

Stiv One The FLAVORS

30w↑4

Ammmmmmmazing!

Sandra Timberlake

6y↑32

Lord's of Salem and Rob Zombie brought me here !!!hypnotic love this !!!groovy

J B

Same

Mac10 Babydick

Me too

kaisersoze508

Amanda Gray it's from like 67 years ago lol

Amanda Gray

me too never heard it before the movie

Sandra Timberlake

6y↑1

kaisersoze508 No I heard it on Lord's of Salem I love it !

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Matthew Dunlap

8y↑1

thanks for posting this!

Zina Zina

51w

Oh, my God I am in heaven!

Giuseppe Daniele Arca

49w↑3

Arte

Davide Bandini

2y↑3

Come si sente l'eroina

Anthony Clarke

1y↑4

shit this is such a epic tune always makes me think of that primus tune

miguelo

18w↑6

house of the dragon 😍

C Kay

2y↑2

💖🎶

Alperen Kurt

18w↑1

fire will rule. dragons will reign!

Discover With Pajerico

6y↑28

Takes me out of my life

SPACE PANDA420

4y↑1

Ik what you mean

Matt Vermillion

Ngl...I know about the VU but never really took the time to delve into their works. This song is in the advertising campaign for a new guitar company. I'm glad I caught the chorus as it brought me here. Oh, I definitely like this. :)