Venus in Furs
     
Credits  
 
Music by : Lou Reed
Lyrics by : Lou Reed
Performed by : The Velvet Underground
 
  Lyrics  
 
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 plead 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, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
 
  Versions  
 
- Venus in Furs first appears on the album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967).
 
  Notes  
 

A song often covered on stage. Pretty representative of the universe of Marc Huyghens' lyrics, it inspired the name of the band.
No recording of the Venus version known.

 
You won't tell me, I know it's hard
To keep your dream alive
Royalsucker
 
 
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