Things X - John Cale

Elsewhere in the Temple the llamas are gearing up

To assault Tiger Mountain when the sun comes up

We sat around whispering in the candlelight

Trying to get a game plan for the night

Talked about the difference between North and South

Keep your gun in your pocket and your tongue in your mouth

And you’ll be doing it

— the thing you do in Denver when you’re dead

A month is a Saturday — Wednesday’s a week

I saw the way you looked at her Charlie Brown — good grief

She pulled you into the shadows and taught you how to love

Patted you on the head and gave you a shove

And you were doing it — the thing…

The sexual exuberance of a concubine

Checks my carburettor one more time

With the passion of a thoroughbred and the

Sensitivity of a moose I rarely make a move

Unless I’ve got some proof that we’ll be doing it

— the thing you do in Denver when you’re dead

You live in Paris I live in France things are expensive

When you live first class — you learn Latin I’ll learn Greek

And when you’ve got a minute we’ll meet in Crete

And we’ll be doing it — the thing…