The Black Angel's Death Song Songtext
von The Velvet Underground & Nico

The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose?

Not a ghost bloodied country
All covered with sleep
Where the black angel did weep
Not an old city street in the east
Gone to choose

And wandering′s brother
Walked on through the night
With his hair in his face
On a long splintered cut from the knife of GT

The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn
Until we said so long
To his skull-shrill yell


Shining brightly red-rimmed
And red-lined with the time
Infused with the choice of the mind
On ice skates scraping chunks
From the bells

Cut mouth bleeding razors
Forgetting the pain
Antiseptic remains cool goodbye
So you fly
To the cozy brown snow of the east
Gone to choose, choose again

Sacrificials remains make it hard to forget
Where you come from
The stools of your eyes
Serve to realize fame, choose again

And Rovermans′ refrain of the sacrilege recluse
For the loss of a horse
With the bowels and a tail of a rat
Come again, choose to go

And if Epiphany's terror reduced you to shame
Have your head bobbed and weaved
Choose a side to be on


And if the stone glances off
Split didactics in two
Leave the color of the mouse trails
Don't scream, try between
If you choose
If you choose, try to lose
For the loss of remain come and start
Start the game

Choose to choose
Choose to choose
Choose to go