Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

Velvet Underground

Wrap your troubles in dreams

send them all away

Put them in a bottle

and across the seas they'll stay



Speak not of misfortune

speak not of your woes

Just steal yourself a Holy death

crouching by the door



Ride and sway to music's pain

searing with the sides

Caress death with a lover's touch

for it shall be your bride



Wrap your troubles in dreams

send them all away

Put them in a bottle

and across the seas they'll stay



Purple is to yellow

as sunlight is to rain

Happiness and death you'll find

loveliness in pain



Slash the golden whip it snaps

across the lover's sides

The earth trembles without tremors

preparing for to die



Wrap your troubles in dreams

send them all away

Put them in a bottle

and across the seas they'll stay



Salty ocean waves and sprays

come crashing to the shore

Bullies kick and kill young loves

down on bar-room floors



The gleaming knife cuts early

through the midnight air

Cutting entrance in its path

blood runs without care



Violence echoes through the land

in heart of every man

The knife, it stabs existent wounds

puss runs through meant to tear



Excrements filters through the brain

hatred bends the spine

Filth covers the body pores

to be cleansed by dying time



Wrap your troubles in dreams

send them all away

Put them in a bottle

and across the seas they'll stay