I Can't Stand It (live version 2)

[Intro: Lou Reed]

This is a song about the sorrows of the contemporary world, which I know we all know so well... at least I read about it all the time. It's like, one day - this was when I was in college, right? - and I woke up 6:30 in the morning (cause I get up early) and I put on the radio and they said, you know, so-and-so truck driver today ran over his baby son's head and it burst like a watermelon... and then they said it's twenty-two degrees out... so I figured, on all levels, there was no reason ever to go out again

I stayed indoor- I stayed indoors for about eight months... yeah hah. Also- also passed with honors in Kierkegaard, that's 'cause I understand the change in our existential leap. Anyone who lies in bed at 6:30 in the morning listening to that has to. Anyway, after that, communism was the only answer for me - I thought. And if you can't be a communist and make money, then you have to be a rock 'n' roll singer... at least in Hoboken

So anyway, this is a song called "I Can't Stand It Anymore"

One, two, three...

[Verse 1]

I hate standin' around

Livin' in a garbage pail

My old lady called me up

She tryna hit me with a mop

[Chorus]

I can't stand it anymore, more

I can't stand it anymore, more

I can't stand it anymore, more

But if Shelly would just come back, it'd be alright

If Shelly would just come back, it'd be alright

[Verse 2]

I live with thirteen dead cats

A purple dog that wears spats

They're all out living out in the hall!

And I can't stand it anymore...

[Chorus]

I can't stand it anymore, more

I can't stand it anymore, more

I can't stand it anymore, more

But if Shelly would just come back, it'd be alright

If Shelly would just come back, it'd be alright

[Guitar solo]

[Verse 3]

It's hard bein' a man

Livin' in a garbage pail

My landlady called me up

And tried to hit me with a mop

[Chorus]

I can't stand it anymore, more

I can't stand it anymore, more

I can't stand it anymore, more

But if Shelly would just come back, it'd be alright

If Shelly would just come back, it'd be alright

[Outro]

Be alright (Alright)

Be alright (Alright)

Be alright...

Be alright!

Be alright!

Be alright!

Be alright!

Be alright...

Be aaalright!

Be alright

Alright

Alright!

Yeah alright (alright)

[Applause]

Thank you