I Can’t Stand It (live version 2)

Lyrics

[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