Lester Bangs

Another tight Beer-can night In your basement of despair Naked ladies on the wall Because they belong there Detroit T-shirt, worn and torn With seven days of stains But ah, when you lift your pen For Roxy Music and the dolls The village voice It has no choice It must laud your every word How does it feel to be you, Lester Bangs? How does it feel to be you, Lester Bangs? 3000 miles away This nerd hangs on your word I lean, and you are leaned upon When all my life was so wrong Drugs and Allen Ginsberg books Every day is the same Lester wrapped in an American flag He watches the football game Then Lester, loose on carpet Full of 4AM pain But oh, when you lift your pen For Roxy Music and the Dolls The Village Voice It has no choice They must laud your every word How does it feel to be you, Lester Bangs? How does it feel to be you, Lester Bangs? 300 miles away This nerd hangs on your word I lean, and you are leaned upon When all my youth went oh so wrong