The Blue Mask

The Blue Mask easy guitar chords by Lou Reed

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  • Intro 1



    Verse 1

    They tied 

    his arms behind 
    his 
    back 

    To teach him how 
    to swim 

    They put blood 
    in his 
    coffee 

    And milk 
    in his gin 

    They 
    stood 
    over the 
    soldier 

    In 
    the 
    midst 
    of the 
    squalor 

    There 
    was war in 
    his body 

    Verse 2
    And it 
    caused his brain 
    to holler 

    Make the 
    sac
    rifice 

    Mutilate 
    my face 

    If 
    you 
    need someone 
    to kill 

    I'm 
    man without 
    a will 

    Wash 
    the 
    razor 
    in the rain 

    Let me 
    lux
    uriate 
    in pain 

    Please 
    don't 
    set me 
    free 

    Death 
    means 
    lot to me 

    Verse 3
    The pain was 
    lean 
    and it made 

    him scream 

    He knew he was 
    alive 

    He put 
    a pin through 
    the nipples on 

    his chest 

    He thought he was 
    a saint 

    I've made 
    love to 
    my mother, killed 

    my father and 
    brother 

    What am I 
    to 
    do 

    When 
    a sin goes 

    too far, it's like 
    a runaway 
    car 

    It 
    cannot be 
    controlled 

    Verse 4
    Spit 
    upon his 
    face and scream 

    There's no 
    oedipus 
    today 

    This is no 
    play you're thinking 

    you are 
    in 

    What will 
    you say 

    Take the blue 
    mask down 
    from my 
    face 

    And 
    look me 
    in the 
    eye 

    get a 
    thrill from 
    punishment 

    I've 
    always been 
    that way 


    Verse 5
    I loathe and despise 
    repentance 

    You 
    are permanently 
    stained 

    Your weakness 
    buys indifference 

    And 
    indis
    cretion 
    in the 
    streets 

    Dirty's what 
    you are and 

    clean is what 
    you're not 

    You deserve 
    to be 
    soundly beat 

    Make the 
    sac
    rifice 
    Verse 6

    Take it 
    all the way 

    There's no 
    "won't" 
    high enough 

    To 
    stop this 
    desperate 
    day 

    Don't take 
    death away 

    Cut 
    the 
    fin
    ger at the 
    joint 

    Cut 
    the 
    stallion 
    at his 
    mount 

    And 
    stuff 
    it 
    in his mouth 

    Outro 1






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