The Summer of Lou Reed

It was the Summer of Lou Reed and the heat
 Did its best to beat us
 We wouldn't let those girls defeat us.
 With our spirits up and the windows down
 We sang for freedom
 You let them heartaches know that we don't need them.
 And the winter was long gone with the songs
 That used to haunt us.
 But look what all that sorrow brought us.
 Take a walk on the wild side we cried
 And the nights they echoed
 Nothing to hold on to—so much to let go.
 But if you ever peel back slowly and see
 You may find a good friend and a good song's all you need
 The summer of white light, the summer of white heat
 I won't ever leave you
 The Summer of Lou Reed
 We'd talk of fortune, lust, rock and roll,
 And where fame would take us.
 That summer all those things would save us.
 In the verses of Sweet Jane our pain
 It seemed so painless
 Those things we couldn't change, they'd never change us.
 But if you ever peel back slowly and see
 You may find a good friend and a good song's all you need
 The summer of white light, the summer of white heat
 I won't ever leave you
 The Summer of Lou Reed
 The Summer of Lou Reed