Lou Reed Betrayed song lyrics

Betrayed, by the one who says she loves you

By the one who says she needs you - above all other men

Betrayed, by her fragile, vicious beauty

Her father did his duty and I lie down betrayed

Justice taught her confidence, her mother was like steel

Her cousins, they're all convicts

She alone rose above that wheel

But a motorcyclist, no matter how good

Is slave to the oncoming truck

And the poison of her father was her most pitiless luck

Betrayed, by the one who says she loves you

By the one who says she needs you - above all other men

Betrayed, by her fragile, vicious beauty

Her father did his duty and I lay down betrayed

Three of us lie in his bed - night of infamy

One of us lies on our back - her father's in her head

And quick she turns and slaps my face

And with her eyes open wide she screams

I hate you, I hate you, I hate you

But she's looking right by me

Betrayed, by the one who says she loves you

By the one who says she needs you - above all other men

Betrayed, by her fragile, vicious beauty

Her father did his duty and I lie down betrayed