Il pezzo vecchio: Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale

Il brano vecchio. Last Great American Whale, brano che ripercorre i temi a cui gli americani continuano a dare scarsa importanza come l’ambiente gli animali e i nativi americani, dall’album del 1989 New York, l’album che ha segnato il ritorno di Lou Reed allo stile dei Velvet Underground.

"Americans don’t care too much for beauty

they’ll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream

They’ll watch dead rats wash up on the beach

and complain if they can’t swim

They say things are done for the majority

don’t believe half of what you see

and none of what you hear

It’s like what my painter friend Donald said to me

“Stick a fork in their ass

and turn them over, they’re done”