Reed, Lou - Strawman Lyrics

Totally under appreciated track from a totally under appreciated musician. Much more to LR than 'Take a Walk'.

WE MISS YA LOU. SEE YA REAL SOON.

The guitar, it's like crying

Straw lights

What a song, and WHAT an album.

Fuck he sticks it up em………………...……...and they don't like it up em!

New York minstrel was gone and nobody will be able to take his place. Whoever trying is not gonna be the same poetry skill, cause skill has gone with the same man whose look was a capability to see and translate oppressed people inner feelings! It was not adrift his famous nickname he got, cause ever better known as damn poet. Nothing was done for new yorkers high society! Always and actually closer to a kind of punk heritage, something that comes from New York dolls or maybe Ramones. Lou will be the greatest ever since the first album until ever.

THESE are the lyrics for our age! LOU is the man who speaks my/our mind!!!

love this song. listening over and over i feel so angry about trump etc.

love this song. relevant today more than ever

Very powerful. Cranked it this morning. Really felt it. Goosebumps. I miss Lou Reed. We need him today more then ever.

should be played at the UN loudly

prescient aptness….

So sad you're gone, Lou. Your country needs you now more than ever! Miss you, brother.

Lou's best tune.

Socialism in motion. NY Style. :)

Awesome rock song. Brilliant guitar break too. Just a few notes with heaps of feel and power. Take note, shredders.

One fact i hate about shredders is that the care only about notes, scales etc. But they put zero effort to find a good tone. Lou's guitar tone tone is amazing. Playing 289459 notes x second that sound like plastic or a toy found inside an happy meal ain't a good idea.

‪Love that ‘durty geetar’ sound and.. well.. never one to ‘pull punches’ lyrically too.. ‘gotta’ admire that eh?! 👍🕶💫‬

What an album !!!

Lou eres y eras lo massss++++++

This song is so powerful it is hard to ignore it's meaning, even if you disagree with everything that Lou Reed is saying. 👍. Great art has that power.

Love Lou Reed, but still don't get what's special about this album.

duncie>>he shits alll over lefty but they dont get it

Lou would have eviscerated Trump.

Would love to see it - actually eviscerating

Best recent rock song don't like any music that came aut after the 2000

Luca Marcellino the strokes?

love it!

Here was a prohpet. A mercy he did not live to see Trump elected.

Lou would have hated Trump as president.

Strawman. Adoro. Esta. Música vem me. As. Lembranças. No. Estrangeiro. Ao. Som. Daquela. Voz. Forte. Restam. Lembranças

Strawman ... Strawman !!

The strawmen are still ruling this world.

Beautiful mix of reality and melancholia.

have you noticed ? chords are starting as they ends, are we in the loop here? Lou’s talking to you

France in December 2018, but nobody cares for the lyrics of a poet anyhow, good luck y'all

だけど、案山子は晴、雨、曇天を知っている。遠くから(杣道）来て遠くに逝く人々（没落）のことも。

 requiescat in pace. Mr. Brooklyn.

Puro r'n'r obra maestra

M pinché escuchándolo hace varios años, palabra, aunque las agujas m dan miedo, sólo lo hice dos veces,las demás la esnife

still a blast! RIP Lou!

In one memorable week I saw Lou play solo followed a few nights later by his Songs for Drella show with John Cale. Damn, I was one fortunate person.

Lou. Reed tenho a. Num. Cd. Strawman. Adoro. A. Voz. Forte Muito Bonita. Era um. Bom 😊 cantor pena. A. Perda. Dele. Ficam. As. Lembranças

I miss You, we need more men and women musicians like him.

Goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcyV5blsTg0pDAJCmGcemgA

our band

****) MAD DOG SEAL OF SAINTHOOD (****

sing it Lou

A E then D. there you go kids the world is yours

Jim James also C G and F.

love the guitar on this fucking song

love this song

Lou saw the future 29 years ago.

Fuckyeah

PERFECT

The loss of Lou Reed hit me hard. Lost my father several months earlier and Reed's passing two days after my mother's 62nd birthday. It shocked me.

Been listening to Lou Reed since age 11. "Heard Sweet Jane" on my older brother's Walkman, and never looked back. Took me from Sesame Street to the Dirty Blvd. I'm 33 now, but he was like my musical father. A hero. Reed was the reason I write and play guitar. Personally, my favorite album is Street Hassle. Thanks, Lou, your music keeps my rock n' roll heart beating.

I love Street Hassle!

I understand that Lou Reed didn't´t like Jesse Jackson so much.

Whew!!...dat's da bollux!!

Lou continues to speak the Truth to power!

This song is a masterpiece...not big fan of LR....but this is a star track on a star album..

letting alone 'rock ´n´ roll animal' i´ve been loving the 'new york' album the most. R.I.P, Lou!

good song

Great lyrics

so viel Power, mein absolutes Stück, das mir aus der Seele spricht

Timeless as always Lou .

no ...repeat ......... respect...

nothing but the best
,lou

sos puto

soy jevy

cagon nunca te inyectaste un sorete gil!!!!! farsante say no more!!!!!

este disco me lo inyecte 89 veces en una noche......kill gil

pañales para esfinteres sin suerte...... over and over, ha!

a la salida.........vemos.

Bernie Sanders' theme song #feelthebern

had a little anger issue there Mr.Reed?

blistering

fucking pure rock n' roll gold. been loving this song since it came out.

I hear STARMAN

+Draven ...Get a hearing aid then...

Alexandre M My mum does too. She points that out every time she listens to this song

At 1:05 it does sound like "starman" but throughout the song Lou alternates between "strawman" and "starman" that's what I'm hearing too.

...especially in light of the opening lyric "Does anybody need another million dollar movie?"....

Jeah,

does anyone need another raciest preacher,
spitten' in the wind does only do you harm...

But they are all over now,Sad

Five minutes and 54 seconds of goosebumps.

Five minutes and 54 seconds of Bull$#!t

+fshaia hey now

+Zerojimm just messing around !

+fshaia ...It's spelled Bullshit, and You're Full of it sport...

I bought this Lou Reed song on cassette 1990. Listened to it on my walkman during Gulfwar Desert shield/Storm years 1990/1991. I still have the cassette. Sounded great!

wow that last verse kind of sounds like he predicted 9/11:
Does anyone need yet another blank skyscraper?
If you're like me I'm sure a minor miracle will do
A flaming sword or maybe a gold ark floating up the Hudson
When you spit in the wind it comes right back at you

lou was cool. a real east coast, nyc, anti-hippie. he helped me survive being a teenager

Agreed and I was probably a hippie.

In fact isn’t this anti-selfish ?

strawman says it all..

in fact, I never heard Lou Reed so angry as he is in this song :)

Me, too.

everyday in my heart.! love it :)

..................More Hopeless Bellowing.
                                                                   
Jesus is Freedom,    Joseph

@truthaboveagenda jesus would very possibly agree with this song ; it has that clear the temple energy

@morrisonreed1  Like many, i grew up listening to a lot of rock music. Years ago i realized that many of the most popular musicians: stones, who, black sabbath, linda ronstadt... Yelled out numerous songs that were complaints, no solutions- just whining really. 

This album is an example of lou reed complaining. He lived a do as you please life- heroin, weed, wearing make-up... and then complains of how shitty american culture is.

                                                 Joseph

+kittyand fox I appreciate some of his lyrics, it's that the older i become the more i realize that an overwhelming amount of rock music is complaining about life, by numerous selfish, queer millionaires. Joseph

+truthaboveagenda Fuck off.

Does anyone need yet another politician
caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

+preciousbodilyfluid1 We got lot's of em

el mejor album de rock de todos los tiempos !!! sabelo pelo

+emi bonilla Si

Perfect record (and song) to mark the end of the 1980's. Amazing. You will be missed, Lou.

whats to say

This was the song that sold me on this album. Shame "End Of The Innocence" won the Grammy for "Album Of The Year" instead of this masterpiece. Corporate Rock strikes again.

Strawman is one the greatest rock songs ever written. Never a big Lou Reed fan myself-the bitter, dark, pointless meme of that entire New York scene offers no hope really. But New York is different. Every song, an angry, sad and compassionate Lou leads me to tears. And Strawman is the kind of song I wish I could write. It's perfect in its structure and Lou's mad as hell voice is so superb and authentic that to this day I can still hear it echoing off the walls of Alphabet CIty's drunken and OD'd tenements. Strawman is always the right song for whatever times one finds oneself living in. 

@Patrick Miller Thank you for putting in words what my feelings are. No, really Thank You! These folks are not extinct.

New York minstrel was gone and nobody will be able to take his place. Whoever trying is not gonna be the same poetry skill, cause skill has gone with the same man whose look was a capability to see and translate oppressed people inner feelings! It was not adrift his famous nickname he got, cause ever better known as damn poet. Nothing was done for new yorkers high society! Always and actually closer to a kind of punk heritage, something that comes from New York dolls or maybe Ramones. Lou will be the greatest ever since the first album until ever.

Awesome. What's he talking about anyway? He sure seems pissed.

Ronald Reagan

R.I.P LEGEND

just...................................................   THANK YOU .......................................

This is such a brilliant track from a sensational album...

Even if you can only do a little, do what you can. Even if you can only help one or two people, it's worth it. The people you help would certainly say so.

Best track on one of his best albums - this song is pure Lou Reed: angry, bitter, wistful and funny as fuck… really missing you, Lou.

As a musician i would love to record this song,it is so powerful.

RIP Lou straight to Rocn and Roll Heaven! We love you ...

rip lou and thanks

R.I.P. Lou - Wee miss U.
thanks for Your Music. did help me in hard time...

Good job Lou. Farewell.

Thanks for brilliant music Lou..... Legend. R.I.P

You will be sorely missed Lou. God bless

Lou you and your songs will never be forgotten.
See you on the wild side one of these days.

R.I.P. Lou Reed (10-27-13)