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Trade In
Lou Reed

I met a new me at 8 A.M. the other one got lost
This is not a trade in, although I wouldn't believe the cost
I woke up crying as we said goodbye
Me and my old self, each day he vanished more and more
As I became someone else

He actually was murdered, I had taken him apart
When I put him back together, I couldn't find his heart
He was resting underneath a chair, in a bed of bright tin foil
If I pulled back the flaps, I could still see it beat
I could still hear his voice uncoil, as I said

I want a trade in, a fourteenth chance at this life
I've met a woman with a thousand faces
And I want to make her my wife

How could I have been so mistaken, how could I think that it was true
A child that is raised by an idiot and that idiot then becomes you
How could I believe in a movie, how could I believe in a book
But most of all how could I listen to you, such an obvious schmuck

A life spent listening to assholes, it's funny but it's true
So get rid of them I said to myself
But first I'm getting rid of you

I want a trade in, a fourteenth chance at this life
I've met a woman with a thousand faces
And I'm gonna make her my wife

Take me over to the window, my heart said to my head
Please set me on fire, so we can start again
I was so wrong that it's funny and I can't apologize
But instead you can be everything that I'm not, the second that I die

Ooh, I want a trade in, the second chance at this life
I've met a woman with a thousand faces
And I want to make her my wife

A fourteenth chance at this life, I want a trade in
A thousand faces, a thousand faces, trade in
I said trade in, ooh
Fourteenth, fourteenth chance at this life


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  A Dream   A Gift   A Sheltered Life   A Thousand Departed Friends   A Thousand Departed Friends   Adventurer   All Through The Night   All Tomorrow's Parties (Live)   All Tomorrows Parties   All Tomorrows Parties   America   America (Star Spangled Banner)   Andy's Chest   Andy's Chest   Animal Language   Average Guy   Baby Face   Balloon   Banging On My Drum   Baton Rouge   Beginning Of A Great Adventure   Berlin   Berlin (In Album Berlin)   Berlin [Live]   Betrayed   Big Sky   Billy   Black Angel's Death Song   Blind Rage   Bottoming Out   Broadway Song   Burning Embers   Busload Of Faith   Call On Me   Call On Me (Live)   Candy Says   Carolin Says II   Caroline Says 1   Caroline Says 2   Caroline Says I   Caroline Says I [*]   Caroline Says Ii   Caroline Says Part 2   Change   Charley's Girl   Charley's Girl   Chooser And The Chosen One   City Lights   Claim To Fame   Coney Island Baby   Courtly Orangutans   Crazy Feeling   Crazy Mary   Cremation   Cremation - Ashes To Ashes   Cremation / Ashes to Ashes   Dime Store Mystery   Dime Store Mystery (To Andy - Honey)   Dirt   Dirty Blvd.   Dirty Boulevard   Disco Mystic   Doin' The Thing That We Want To   Doin' The Things That We Want To   Doin' The Things That We Want To   Doing the Things That We Want To   Don't Hurt A Woman   Don't Talk To Me About Work   Don't Hurt A Woman   Dorita   Down At The Arcade   Downtown Dirt   Dreamin'   Dreamin' - Escape   Dreamin'   Ecstasy   Edgar Allan Poe   Egg Cream   Empty Bottles   Endless Cycle   Endlessly Jealous   Ennui   Every Frog Has His Day   Faces & Names   Faces & Names   Faces And Names   Families   Femme Fatale   Find Your Note   Finish Line   Fly Into The Sun   Foggy Notion   Follow The Leader   Foot Of Pride   Forever Changed   Frozen Warnings   Future Farmers Of America   Gassed & Stoked - Loss   Gassed And Stoked   Gassed And Stoked - Loss   Ghost Story   Gimmie Some Good Times   Going Down   Good Evening Mr. Waldheim   Good Evening Mr.Waldheim   Good Night Ladies   Good Taste   Goodby Mass   Goodby Mass - In A Chapel Bodily Termination   Goodnight Ladies   Growing Up In Public   Guardian Angel   Guilty   Guilty (Song)   Guilty (Spoken)   Halloween Parade   Hang On To Your Emotions   Hangin' 'round   Hangin' Round   Hangin' Round   HanginRound   Harry's Circumcision   Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray   Harry's Circumcision   Heavenly Arms   Hello It's Me   Hello It's Me   Here Comes The Bride   Heroin   High In The City   Hold On   Home Of The Brave   Hooky Wooky   Hookywooky   Hop Frog   How Do You Speak To An Angel   How Do You Speak to an Angel?   How Do You Think It Feels   How Do You Think It Feels [*]   I Believe   I Believe In Love   I Can't Stand It   I Can't Stand It   I Heard Her Call My Name   I Love You   I Love You, Suzanne   I Remember You   I Wanna Be Black   I Wanna Know   I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)   I Want To Boogie With You   I'll Be Your Mirror   I'm So Free   I'm Waiting for My Man   I'm Waiting For My Man (Live In New York - Transfo...   I'm Waiting For The Man   I'm So Free   I'm Waiting For The Man   Images   Imp Of The Perverse   In Our Sleep   Interview (Live In New York - Transformer Tour 197...   Interview With Lou Reed   Into The Divine   Into The Divine (Live)   Intro   Intro/Sweet Jane   Intro\/Sweet Jane   It Wasn't Me   It Wasn't Me   Janitor of Lunacy   Jealous Guy   Keep Away   Kicks   Kill Your Sons   Kill Your Sons [DVD]   Ladies Pay   Lady Day   Last Great American Whale   Leave Me Alone   Leave Me Alone [*]   Leave Me Alone [#]   Legendary Hearts   Like A Possum   Lisa Says   Little Sister   Looking For Love   Love Is Here To Stay   Love Makes You Feel   Lulu   Mad   Magic & Loss   Magic & Loss - The Summation   Magic And Loss   Magic And Loss - The Summation   Magician   Magician - Internally   Make Up   Make Up Mind   Make Up My Mind   Mama's Got A Lover   Mama's Got A Lover   Martial Law   Men Of Good Fortune   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 2   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 3   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 4   Mistrial   Modern Dance   My Friend George   My House   My Old Man   My Red Joystick   Mystic Child   N. 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