Lou Reed - There is No Time - New York Album

lou reed - new york album LYRICS:
This is no time for celebration
This is no time for shaking heads
This is no time for backslapping
This is no time for marching bands

This is no time for optimism
This is no time for endless thought
This is no time for my country right or wrong
Remember what that brought

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

This is no time for congratulations
This is no time to turn your back
This is no time for circumlocution
This is no time for learned speech

This is no time to count your blessings
This is no time for private gain
This is no time to put up or shut up
It won't no time to come back this way again

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

This is no time to swallow anger
This is no time to ignore hate
This is no time to be acting frivolous
Because the time is getting late

This is no time for private vendettas
This is no time to not know who you are
Self knowledge is a dangerous thing
The freedom of who you are

[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/there-is-no-time-lyrics-lou-reed.html ]


This is no time to ignore warnings
This is no time to clear the plate
Let's not be sorry after the fact
And let the past become out fate

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

This is no time to turn away and drink
Or smoke some vials of crack
This is a time to gather force
And take dead aim and attack

This is no time for celebration
This is no time for saluting flags
This is no time for inner searchings
The future is at head

This is no time for phony rhetoric
This is no time for political speech
This is a time for action
Because the future's within reach

This is the time
This is the time
This is the time
Because there is no time

There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

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[northernmuse9]

THX, vivemaker! Would you consider posting the all the lyrics? ---Pretty fu*#in' sad that he wrote this around 1989 . . . and still, nobody's listening. Not in Amerikka, anyway.

[vivemaker]

@northernmuse9

No problem, i will add the lyrics soon.

[marcbolan88]

@xesredum1 Either you get it or you dont...

[xesredum1]

well can somebody explain to me what is so great about lou reed? i´ve listened to a couple of his songs and in my opinion his lyrics are average and his vocals are very poor, guitar is unimpressive at best. i´m not a hater, i just want to know what i´m missing here.

[mcscheijgrond79]

WOW THATS EH OK 

[mermit]

@Cigarshark1 dangerous to the oppressors, as I understand it

seeing that the preceding line is "this is no time to NOT know who you are."

and yeah, this song shook my world 20 years ago, and it still does, pertinent as ever. Respect to the uploader!

[Shongoni]

but if i will live ? is the clock ticking ? ill take the of my breath when I'm in LOVE

[PlanTonto]

@TheRealWalterHego  This is no time for getting lyrics wrong...

[TheRealWalterHego]

The lyrics are wrong. I just posted the correct ones at Metro Lyrics, though they aren't visible yet.

[Cigarshark1]

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing - the freedom of who you are. Now there's an interesting comment. Anybody knows what Uncle Lou refers to? Over-analysing oneself kills sponteneity and vitality, something like that?

[SpamNapkin]

Your sword is enough

[gilamonster001]

Absolutley the BEST !