Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Lou Reed
Vocals
Antony
Background Vocals
Fernando Saunders
Bass
Mike Rathke
Guitar
Jane Scarpantoni
Cello
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Lou Reed
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Lou Reed
Producer
Doug Field
Assistant Engineer
Phil Kneebone
Assistant Engineer
Sarah Register
Assistant Engineer
Fernando Saunders
Producer
Bill Bentley
Executive Producer
Emily Lazar
Mastering Engineer
Nick Launay
Mixing Engineer
Biff Dawes
Recording Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl-child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
[Verse 2]
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn, imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
[Verse 3]
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
[Verse 4]
Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
[Verse 5]
Severin, Severin speaks so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knees
Taste the whip in love not given lightly
Oh, Severin, taste the whip
Now bleed for me
[Verse 6]
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl-child in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells
Please don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, cure his heart
[Verse 7]
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Different colors made
Different colors made
Different colors made of tears
[Verse 8]
We're taking a forty-five second break because they are taping this
And they've got to change the tape, so forty-five Mississippi
Forty-four Mississippi
Written by: Lou Reed