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John Cale Work

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Words and music: lou reed & john cale

Andy was a catholic, the ethic ran through his
bones
He lived alone with his mother, collecting gossip
and toys
Every sunday when he went to church
He'd kneel in his pew and say, "it's just
work,
All that matters is work."

He was a lot of things, what I remember most
He'd say, "i've got to bring home the bacon,
someone's got to bring home the roast."
He'd get to the factory early
If you'd ask him he'd tell you straight out
It's just work, the most important thing is work
No matter what I did it never seemed enough
He said I was lazy, I said I was young
He said, "how many songs did you write?
"
I'd written zero, I'd lied and said,
"ten."
"you won't be young forever
You should have written fifteen"
It's work, the most important thing is work
It's work, the most important thing is work

"you ought to make things big
People like it that way
And the songs with the dirty words - record them
that way"
Andy liked to stir up trouble, he was funny that
way
He said, "it's just work, all that matters is
work"
Andy sat down to talk one day
He said decide what you want
Do you want to expand your parameters
Or play museums like some dilettante
I fired him on the spot, he got red and called me
a rat
It was the worst word that he could think of
And I've never seen him like that
It's just work, I thought he said it's just work
Work, he said it's just work

Andy said a lot of things, I stored them all away
in my head
Sometimes when I can't decide what I should do
I think what would andy have said
He'd probably say you think too much
That's 'cause there's work that you don't want to
do
It's work, the most important thing is work
Work, the most important thing is work


John Davies Cale, OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a
Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and
record producer who was a founding member of the
experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.
Though best known for his work in rock music, Cale
has worked in various genres including drone and
classical. Since departing from the Velvet
Underground in 1968 he has released approximately
30 albums. Of his solo work, Cale is perhaps best
known for his album Paris 1919, and his cover
version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", plus his
mid-1970s Island Records trilogy of albums: Fear,
Slow Dazzle, and Helen of Troy. Cale has produced
or collaborated with Lou Reed, Nico, La Monte
Young, John Cage, Terry Riley, Hector Zazou,
Cranes, Nick Drake, Mike Heron, Kevin Ayers, Brian
Eno, Patti Smith, The Stooges, The Modern Lovers,
Art Bergmann, Manic Street Preachers and frontman
James Dean Bradfield, Marc Almond, Element of
Crime, Squeeze, Happy Mondays, LCD Soundsystem,
The Replacements, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Cale was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame as member of the Velvet Underground in 1996.