Baton Rouge-Lou Reed

[00:00.14]When I think of you Baton Rouge [00:04.97]I think of a Mariachi band [00:08.35]I think of sixteen and a crisp green football field [00:15.02]I think of a girl I never had [00:20.11]When I think of you Baton Rouge [00:24.48]I think of a back seat in a car [00:28.11]Windows are foggy and so are we [00:32.98]as the police asked for our I.D. [00:39.72]So helpless [00:41.12]so helpless [00:43.18]Ooohhh, ooohhh, so helpless [00:47.88]ooohhh, so helpless [00:52.73]Ooohhh, so helpless [00:57.24]so helpless [01:01.07]Well I once had a car lost it in a divorce [01:05.66]the judge was a woman of course [01:10.73]She said give her the car and the house and your taste [01:14.12]or else I set the trial date [01:20.28]So now when I think of you Baton Rouge [01:24.92]and the deep southern belles with their touch [01:29.34]I wonder where love ends and hate starts to blush [01:34.32]in the fields in the swamps in the rush [01:37.70]In the terra-cotta cobwebs of your mind [01:42.07]when did you start seeing me as a spider spinning web [01:47.09]Of malicious intent and you as poor, poor me [01:51.20]at the fire at the joint, this disinterred and broken mount [01:53.80]in the bedroom in the house where we were unmarried [01:57.98]So helpless, so helpless [02:03.22]so helpless [02:06.39]So helpless, so helpless [02:12.28]so helpless [02:15.66]When was I the villain in your heart [02:20.45]putting the brake on your start [02:25.70]you slapped my face and cried and screamed [02:30.11]that's what marriage came to mean [02:35.21]The bitterest ending of a dream [02:37.67]You wanted children and I did not [02:44.50]was that what it was all about [02:49.04]You might get a laugh when you hear me shout [02:54.26]you might get a laugh when you hear me shout [02:58.23]I wish I had [03:00.13]So helpless, so helpless [03:04.76]so helpless [03:08.06]So helpless, so helpless [03:13.95]so helpless [03:16.45]Sometimes when I think of Baton Rouge [03:22.45]I see us with two and a half strapping sons [03:27.17]One and a half flushed daughters preparing to marry [03:31.06]and two fat grandsons I can barely carry [03:35.79]Daddy, uncle, family gathered there for grace [03:41.50]a dog in a barbecue pit goes up in space [03:46.10]The dream recedes in the morning with a bad aftertaste [03:49.18]and I'm back in the big city worn from the race of the chase [03:53.43]what a waste [03:54.47]So thanks for the card the announcement of child [04:00.04]and I must say you and Sam look great [04:02.71]Your daughter's gleaming in that - [04:06.34]- white wedding dress with pride [04:08.05]sad to say I could never bring that to you that wide smile [04:12.47]So I try not to think of Baton Rouge [04:17.83]or of a, of a, of a Mariachi band [04:22.07]Or of sixteen and a crisp green football field [04:27.47]and the girl, and the girl I never had [04:31.22]So helpless, so helpless [04:37.17]so helpless [04:40.32]So helpless, so helpless [04:46.36]so helpless [04:52.99]