What’s Good (The Thesis) Songtext
von Lou Reed

Life′s like a mayonnaise soda
And life's like space without room
And life′s like bacon and ice cream
That's what life's like without you

Life′s like forever becoming, but
Life′s forever dealing in hurt
Now life's like death without living
That′s what life's like without you

Life′s like Sanskrit read to a pony
I see you in my mind's eye, strangling on your tongue
What good is knowing such devotion?
I′ve been around, I know what makes things run

What good is seeing eye chocolate?
What good's a computerized nose
And what good is cancer in April?
Why no good, no good at all?


What good's a war without killing?
What good is rain that falls up?
What good′s a disease that won′t hurt you?
Why no good, I guess, no good at all?

What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking
It must be better, huh, not to be thinking at all
A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete
No, not much, not much at all

What′s good is life without living?
What good's this lion that barks?
You loved a life others throw away nightly
It′s not fair, not fair at all

What's good?
Oh baby, what′s good?
What's good?
What's good?
Not much at all


Hey baby, what′s good? (What′s good?)
What's good? (What′s good?)
What's good? (What′s good?) Not much at all
What's good? (What′s good?)
What's good? (Life is good)
Life is good (life is good)
What's good? (Life is good)
But not fair at all