"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you to make those improvisations successful most of the time."John Cale
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Lyrics
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"Sometimes I wish I wrote more songs, I don't write anywhere outside the studio. That's where it always gets done – going blindly into something. To me that's always been important. To go blindly into it."
About his lyrical imagery:
"My songs have an interior logic, but I also think people want to discover things for themselves when they listen to them, just as they would when they read a poem."
Last added lyrics
Alphabetical order
Find the lyrics to your song the easy way.
- 5 Tracks
- Academy In Peril
- Artificial Intelligence
- blackAcetate
- Caribbean Sunset
- Church of Anthrax
- Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Extra Playful
- Fear
- Helen Of Troy
- HoboSapiens
- Honi Soit
- Last Day On Earth
- Mercy
- Music For A New Society
- Paris 1919
- POPtical Illusion
- Sabotage/Live
- Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
- Slow Dazzle
- Songs for Drella
- Vintage Violence
- Walking on Locusts
- Words For The Dying
- Wrong Way Up
The Velvet Underground
- All Summer Long
- Autobiography
- The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All
- Coyote
- Dixieland And Dixie
- Empty Bottles
- Hedda Gabler
- Imitating Violin
- Jack the Ripper
- Lazy Day
- Leaving it up to you
- Mary Lou
- Ooh La La
- Perfect Moon
- She Never took No For an Answer
- Velvet Nursery Rhyme
- Why Don't You Smile Now
Songs for Nico
- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
- All My Friends
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion
- Anything Goes
- Ar Lan y Môr
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Clown In The Moon
- Dirge For The New Sunrise
- Daybreak
- First Evening
- Frozen Warnings
- God Only Knows
- Hallelujah
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Helium Sunset
- Hunger
- I Wanna Be Around
- If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love
- In My Craft Or Sullen Art
- The Insult
- Lament
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
- Love Me Two times
- Memphis
- My Funny Valentine
- Myfanwy
- Pablo Picasso
- People Who Died
- Queen Victoria
- She Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Sixty/Forty
- So Long, Marianne
- Streets Of Laredo
- The Long Voyage
- The Moon
- Win a Few
- Walkin' The Dog
- Willow Weep For Me
See also:
- Other artists performing Cale songs
Cale performed/performs the following songs during his live shows.
- Anything Goes
- Fucking Your Neighbour's Wife
- Lament
- My Sweet Lord
- Murdering Mouth
- Myfanwy
- Punk Christmas
- Sold Motel (original version)
- Ton Ton Macoute (studio 1976)
- Willow Weep For Me
» Fresh Cale
Order the remastered and expanded Paris 1919 album (2LP, CD) via Domino Records
Order the remastered and expanded The Academy in Peril album (LP, CD) via Domino Records
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» Copyright notice
All lyrics by John Cale unless stated otherwise.
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© John Cale Music BMI
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© John Cale Music BMI
