![]() Hugh from Phoenix, AzOne of the earliest punk songs, in my opinion.J from VermontThe street price of heroin in the late 60's was $13 a gram, hence the $26.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out He's got the works, gives you sweet tasteĪh then you gotta split because you got no time to wasteīaby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mineįirst thing you learn is you always gotta wait Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around? Reed has commented that "Everything about that song holds true, except the price." $26 in 1967 would be more than $166 today.Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive Rolling Stone magazine placed "I'm Waiting for the Man" at number 159 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. ![]() The accounts often came from the personal experiences of the band members. The Velvet Underground were one of the first groups to openly write songs about drug use and its catastrophic consequences (heroin, in the case of "I'm Waiting for the Man"). ![]() He brings $26 uptown, where he stops at a brownstone at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, which is currently the home of a 4/5/6 subway station. The track, written by singer Lou Reed, tells the story of a man in New York traveling to Harlem to meet his drug dealer, who is never referred to as anything other than "the man" in the song. Like many of the band's other songs, "I'm Waiting for the Man" focuses on the dark underbelly of life in New York City. American rock band The Velvet Underground released "I'm Waiting for the Man" in 1967 on their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico.
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