Under the intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes
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I have felt the full knowledge
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And force of their expression
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And yet been unable to possess it
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And have felt it leave me
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As so many other things have left
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The letter half-read
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The bottle half-drunk
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Finding
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Finding in the commonest objects of the universe
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A circle of analogies
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Of metaphors
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Ooohhh
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For that expression
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Which has been willfully
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withheld from me
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The access to the inner soul denied
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I wanna know, ooohhh
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I wanna know
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I wanna know, oh
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I wanna know
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In consideration
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In consideration of the faculties and impulses
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Of the human soul
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Of the human soul
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In consideration
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Of our arrogance
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Of our arrogance
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Our radical, primitive irreducible arrogance of reason
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We have all overlooked the propensity
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We saw no need for it
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The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness
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Perverseness
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Through its promptings we act without
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Comprehensible object
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We act for the reason we should not
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We act for the reason we should not
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For certain minds this is absolutely irre-, irre-
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irresistible
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irresistible
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The conviction of the wrong
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Or impolicy of an action
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Is often the unconquerable force
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The unconquerable force
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It is a primitive impulse
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It is a primitive impulse
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Primitive impulse
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The overwhelming tendency
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The overwhelming tendency to do
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Wrong for the wrong's sake
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To do wrong for the wrong's sake
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We persist in acts
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Because we feel that we
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should not persist in them
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Because we feel we, feel we
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should not persist, per-, persist in them, ah
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Ooohhh
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So I wanna know
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I wanna know
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I wanna know
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I wanna know
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I wanna, I wanna know
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I wanna, I
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Ooohhh, we persist in action
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We persist in action
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Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
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Ooohhh
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Wrong, wrong
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Oh we persist in action
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Ah yeah yeah
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When you know that it's wrong
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I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)
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| Lou Reed |
