MAGIC AND LOSS

São poucos, mesmo muito poucos, aqueles de quem se pode dizer que mudaram realmente o mundo, e que tornaram melhor a nossa vida. O Velho Lou era um deles…

Busload of Faith

You can’t depend on your family

You can’t depend on your friends

You can’t depend on a beginning

You can’t depend on an end

You can’t depend on intelligence

You can’t depend on a god

You can only depend on one thing

You need a Busload of Faith to get by

You can depend on the worst always happening

You can depend on a murderer’s drive

You can bet that if he rapes somebody

There’ll be no problem having a child

And you can bet that if she aborts it

Pro-Lifers will attack her with rage

You can depend on the worst always happening

You need a Busload of Faith to get by

You can’t depend on the goodly hearted

The goodly hearted made lampshades and soap

You can’t depend on the Sacrament,

No Father, no Holy Ghost

You can’t depend on any churches

Unless there’s a real estate you want to buy

You can’t depend on a lot of things

You need a Busload of Faith to get by

You can’t depend on no miracle

You can’t depend on the air

You can’t depend on a wise man

You can’t find them, because they’re not there

You can depend on cruelty

Crudity of thought and sound

You can depend on the worst always happening

You need a Busload of Faith to get by

Lou Reed, 1989