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Venus in Furs

from Saudade by Mark Steiner & His Problems

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Celile and I dtarted doing this song as a duet some years back. This song almost didn't make it to the final cut of the album. Then Lou Reed had to do something so rash like suddenly pass into the next world. Never met the man. If I had, I doubt that I would have had much to say to him, if anything it all. Perhaps just a nod? How else does one pay tribute to the "College Professor of Rock" (Thanks for that, Rowly;)

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VENUS IN FURS
(lyrics by Lou Reed)

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now plead for me

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him

©1967 Lou Reed / Verve Records

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from Saudade, released November 6, 2014
VENUS IN FURS (featuring Celile Stille)
(lyrics & music by Lou Reed • Oakfield Avenue Music Ltd. / EMI)
Thomas Borge: bass
Pavel Cingl: violin
Celile Güzelce: vocals
Henry Hugo: electric guitar, celesta
Tobias Lange: drums
Mark Steiner: vocals, baritone guitar

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Mark Steiner & His Problems Oslo, Norway

Mark Steiner is a well-known figure in Oslo’s music underworld, and he’s been around in Norway for so long that many assume that he is Norwegian. He is not. This ex-New Yorker is a wandering scoundrel who one might find hanging out in the shadowy corners of a pub at closing time. A international musical vagrant who might walk the streets with Stuart Staples, Nick Cave, and Rowland S. Howard... ... more

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