

The result is a dark transposition of the novel, that proved that the old musical cliché of calling something “ahead of its time” has more than a grain of truth to it. For all the shock engendered by the lyrics of Heroin and I’m Waiting for My Man, the most malevolent-sounding track on the debut album might be Run Run Run, a powerful R&B groove lent a gripping. Venus in Furs Lyrics von Velvet Underground mit Video: Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather / Whiplash girlchild in the dark / Comes in bells, your servant. Scoring the lyrics of “Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather,” with the haunting repetition of Cale’s darkly screeching viola and Reed’s droning guitar. Lou Reed and his bandmate John Cale were inspired to match the sultry tone of the book with their own sonic equivalent. Lou Reed sounds so sexy when he says.' Her mind furs, adorn, imperious' And when he says.' Taste the whip in love not given lightly. Although hesitant at first, Wanda’s treatment of Severin becomes more and more depraved, fuelling Severin’s own desires for cruelty.” One of the most sexiest rock songs I have ever heard. The book’s protagonist, Severin, is so infatuated and obsessed with the object of his desire, Wanda, that he asks to be her slave.

C m Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, dont forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorned, imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there. The official blurb for the controversial novel reads: “If you’ve ever been curious about where the term “masochism” comes from, you will find it laden in the pages of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s masterpiece, Venus in Furs, for whom the term was named.”Ĭontinuing: “Drawn in part from his own life experiences, Sacher-Masoch’s novel develops an eroticism unlike any other. Original Performance: The Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs: chords. Goodreads defines Sacher-Masoch’s career output as a “utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction.” His gritty and abrasive but nevertheless grounded prose proved influential on Lou Reed, but none more so than his 1870 novel Venus In Furs. It says a lot about the man that the term masochism (meaning: the tendency to derive sexual gratification from one’s own pain or humiliation, or the enjoyment of an activity that appears to be painful or tedious) is derived from his name. Strike dear mistress, and cure his heart. One of these literary iconoclasts was the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Severin, your servant comes in bells, please dont forsake him.
