Letra de Sister Ray (John Cale, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker & Sterling Morrison, 1968)
Duck and Sally inside
They're cooking for the down five
Who're staring at Miss Rayon
Who's busy licking up her big man
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
Ah, it's jsut like Sister Ray says
Rosy and Miss Rayon
They're busy waiting for her booster
Who just got back from Carolina
She said she didn't like the weather
They're busy waiting for her Sailor
Who said he's just as big as ever
He's just here from Alabama
He wants to know a way to earn a dollar
I'm searching for my mainline
I couldn't hit it sideways
Ah, just like Sister Ray said
Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks and shoots between three and four
He aims it at the Sailor
Shoots him down dead on the floor
Oh, you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
And by the way man, have you got a dollar
Oh no man, I haven't got the time time
Too busy sucking on a ding dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding dong
Oh, she does it just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh, just like, just like Sister Ray says
Now, who's that knocking
Who's that knocking on my chamber dooe
Now could it be the police
They've come to take me for a ride ride
Oh, but I haven't got the time time
Too busy sucking on my ding dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding dong
Oh, now, just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching on my line
I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh now, just like, just like, just like.....
Sister Ray says.
Duck and Sally inside
They're cooking for the down five
Who're staring at Miss Rayon
Who's busy licking up her big man
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
Ah, it's jsut like Sister Ray says
Rosy and Miss Rayon
They're busy waiting for her booster
Who just got back from Carolina
She said she didn't like the weather
They're busy waiting for her Sailor
Who said he's just as big as ever
He's just here from Alabama
He wants to know a way to earn a dollar
I'm searching for my mainline
I couldn't hit it sideways
Ah, just like Sister Ray said
Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks and shoots between three and four
He aims it at the Sailor
Shoots him down dead on the floor
Oh, you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
And by the way man, have you got a dollar
Oh no man, I haven't got the time time
Too busy sucking on a ding dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding dong
Oh, she does it just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh, just like, just like Sister Ray says
Now, who's that knocking
Who's that knocking on my chamber dooe
Now could it be the police
They've come to take me for a ride ride
Oh, but I haven't got the time time
Too busy sucking on my ding dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding dong
Oh, now, just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching on my line
I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh now, just like, just like, just like.....
Sister Ray says.
Es muy difícil, por cierto, pensar un texto con diecisiete minutos de violencia alterna. Sister Ray, del album White Light/White Heat, de The Velvet Underground. Sin embargo, si sobrevivimos a este enchufado gong de música permanente, entonces podemos reflexionar con un poco más de cordura. ¿Pero, reflexionar sobre qué cosa? Un tema así, como Foggy Notion también de VU, nos hace más accesibles a la hora de escribir, si nos tomamos en serio hacerlo con semejante bombardeo por delante. Si hay un desorden a la hora de ponernos a traducir lenguaje propio, pues que se note. Sólo existe el desorden en quienes buscan un funcionamiento atravesado por la caricatura del estilo. Y el estilo, sabemos, no es caricaturizable, porque se trata de una proyección de un formato al que siempre debemos darle un nuevo pulimiento. Por lo tanto, si no existe forma fija no habrá retrato, o en el peor de los casos, autorretrato. Decía Pasternak que las obras más importantes describen en realidad su propio nacimiento. Da la impresión que Sister Ray insume en un rato toda la energía infectada de deriva que a veces nos toma del cuello, y nos hace caminar por un cuerda que no hace falta que esté floja. En ese tema está todo el universo warholiano, que después será el de Lou Reed, y of course, el de John Cale. Sobre todo el de Cale, quizá el más desestructurado dentro de un mondo-factory universalmente desproporcionado. A Sister Ray la escucho como una de las experiencias más duchampianas en rock, en los últimos 40 años. Es probable que exagere, pero qué ganas de sostener esta sobreabundancia.
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