Lou Reed – Bottoming Out (Guitar)

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I'm cruising fast on a motorcycle

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down this winding country road

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And I pass the gravel on the foot of the hill

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Where last week I fell off

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There's still some oil by the old elm tree

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And a dead squirrel that I hit

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But if I hadn't left I would have struck you dead

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So I took a ride instead

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Bottoming out, bottoming out

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Bottoming out, bottoming out

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My doctor says, she hopes I know

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How lucky I can be

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After all, it wasn't my blood

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Mixed in the dirt that night

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But this violent rage that's turned inward

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Can not be held by a drink

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And we must really examine this and I say

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"I need another drink."

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Bottoming out, bottoming out

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Bottoming out, bottoming out

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I'm tearing down Route 80 east

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The sun's on my right side

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I'm drunk, but my vision's good

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And I think of my child bride

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And on the left in shadows, I see 

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Something that makes me laugh

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I aim that bike at the fat pothole

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Beyond that underpass

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Bottoming out, bottoming out

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Bottoming out, bottoming out