[ti:I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)] [ar:Lou Reed] [al:The Sire Years: The Solo Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) [feat. Blind Boys of Alabama] - Lou Reed/Blind Boys of Alabama [00:39.19]Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes [00:47.49]I have felt the full knowledge [00:53.39]And force of their expression [01:06.28]And yet been unable to possess it [01:12.65]And have felt it leave me [01:18.29]As so many other things have left [01:20.51]So many other things have left [01:24.77]The letter half-read [01:26.14]The letter half-read [01:30.07]The bottle half-drunk [01:32.63]The bottle half-drunk [01:38.25]Finding [01:39.66]Finding [01:41.37]Finding in the commonest objects of the universe [01:48.47]A circle of analogies [01:56.39]Of metaphors [01:59.57]Ooohhh [02:04.21]For that expression [02:07.17]Which has been willfully [02:10.05]Withheld from me [02:11.76]Withheld from me [02:14.45]The access to the inner soul denied [02:18.81]Inner soul denied [02:23.86]I wanna know [02:25.06]I wanna know oh [02:30.71]I wanna know oh [02:34.42]I wanna know [02:36.88]I wanna know [02:38.24]I wanna know oh [02:43.07]I wanna know [02:45.78]I wanna know [02:50.76]In consideration In consideration [02:56.38]In consideration of the faculties and impulses [03:09.46]Of the human soul [03:11.42]Of the human soul [03:13.99]Of the human soul [03:16.14]In consideration [03:18.01]In consideration [03:19.88]Of our arrogance [03:21.00]Arrogance [03:23.02]Of our arrogance [03:24.24]Arrogance [03:26.69]Our radical primitive irreducible arrogance of reason [03:36.03]We have all overlooked the propensity [03:43.53]We saw no need for it [03:48.08]The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness [03:54.69]Perverseness [04:00.00]Through its promptings we act without [04:02.86]Comprehensible object [04:07.68]We act for the reason we should not [04:10.26]We should not [04:12.78]We act for the reason we should not [04:15.05]Should not [04:18.08]For certain minds this is absolutely irre- irre- [04:21.87]Irresistible [04:23.45]Irresistible [04:25.56]Irresistible [04:28.96]The conviction of the wrong [04:32.23]Or impolicy of an action [04:35.87]Is often the unconquerable force [04:40.21]The unconquerable force [04:44.22]It is a primitive impulse [04:46.16]Primitive impulse [04:48.13]It is a primitive impulse [04:53.85]Primitive impulse [04:57.03]The overwhelming tendency [05:01.00]The overwhelming tendency to do [05:06.84]Wrong for the wrong's sake [05:08.89]Wrong for the wrong's sake [05:11.15]To do wrong for the wrong's sake [05:14.58]We persist in acts [05:18.06]Because we feel that we [05:19.72]Should not persist in them [05:24.58]Because we feel we we [05:26.97]Should not persist per- persist in them ah [05:31.56]Ooohhh [05:34.34]So I wanna know [05:35.80]I wanna know [05:40.06]I wanna know [05:42.67]I wanna know [05:46.72]I wanna know [05:54.01]I wanna know [06:07.49]I wanna I wanna [06:23.36]Persist in acts [06:24.84]Persist in acts [06:25.94]Persist in acts