Legendary Hearts

No show em Barcelona em 1985 Lou Reed diz: "essa é uma música sobre não ser capaz de ser bem o que você gostaria de ser. Ela se chama 'Legendary Hearts". Seguindo ainda o raciocínio de 'the nest friends' temos aqui o embate entre o amor ideal (legendary) e o amor possível (just a kiss); sendo que temos de lutar para manter o nosso 'legendary love'. Tristemente perdemos muito pelos mesmos dois motivos. Se sonhamos com o amor de Romeu e Julieta perdemos a possibilidade de viver bons momentos de paixão, se vivemos apenas da paixão perdemos um grande amor. Essa é uma das impossibilidades de ser o que você gostaria de ser.

Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts

Legendary hearts, tearing up apart with stories of their love
Their great transcendant loves
While we stand here and fight
And lose another night of legendary love

Legendary loves haunt me in my sleep
Promises to keep, I never should have made
I can't live up to this, I'm good for just a kiss
Not legendary love

Romeo, oh Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo
He's in a car or at a bar
Or churning his blood with an impure drug
He's in the past and seems to be lost forever

He worked hard at being good
But his basic soul was stained not pure
And when he took his bow, no audience was clapping

Legendary hearts, tear us all apart
Make our emotions bleed, crying out in need
No legendary love is coming from above
It's in this room right now

And you've got to fight to make what's right
And you've got to fight to make what's right
And you've got to fight to make what's right
And you've got to fight to keep your legendary love