Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - The Velvet Underground

Wrap your troubles in dreams

Send them all away

Put them in a bottle

And across the seas they’ll stay

Speak not of misfortune

Speak not of your woes

Just steal yourself a holy death

Crouching by the door

Ride and sway to music’s pain

Searing with the sides

Caress death with a lover’s touch

For it shall be your bride

Wrap your troubles in dreams

Send them all away

Put them in a bottle

And across the seas they’ll stay

Purple is to yellow

As sunlight is to rain

Happiness and death you’ll find

Loveliness in pain

Slash the golden whip it snaps

Across the lover’s sides

The earth trembles without tremors

Preparing for to die

Wrap your troubles in dreams

Send them all away

Put them in a bottle

And across the seas they’ll stay

Salty ocean waves and sprays

Come crashing to the shore

Bullies kick and kill young loves

Down on bar-room floors

The gleaming knife cuts early

Through the midnight air

Cutting entrance in its path

Blood runs without care

Violence echoes through the land

In heart of every man

The knife, it stabs existent wounds

Puss runs through meant to tear

Excrements filters through the brain

Hatred bends the spine

Filth covers the body pores

To be cleansed by dying time

Wrap your troubles in dreams

Send them all away

Put them in a bottle

And across the seas they’ll stay