[Intro : a recording of Lou Reed talking, extract from the movie "Blue in the Face" released in 1995]
"I don't know my way around Paris. I... don't know my way around Denver. I don't know my way around Maui. I don't know my way around Toronto, except to the South, it's almost by default, you know. I'm just scared 24 hours a day but not necessarily in New York... uh... I actually feel pretty comfortable in New York, I get scared like Sweden. You know, it's kind of empty, they're all drunk..."

[Unique verse]
The magic and sad short story of Delmore Schwartz, published in the Partisan Revue, is called "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"
In dreams the responsibilities begin
And I'm going to tell it to you
It's the night, we dream, a young man goеs to the movies
The lifе of his parents flashes up on the screen, their lives before he was born
His father's about to ask his mother in mariage and walks alone
Alone in the street of Brooklyn, to meet his family-in-law
From his read seat, the child sees his father wandering, daydreaming, and hesitating in his loneliness
Does he truly want to get married, to have a child, to settle ?
The son preceives the father's discomfort at the first contact with his new family, the chemistry that is right only intermittently with his fiancee
The shyness of the latter, the assurance of the former
The fear that rules both of their gestures
The opposite desires of this fragile couple, their bodies that walk together towards Coni Island...
There, the child watches the ocean, passionate, and his parents, indifferent
He cries
On the screen, there's still awkward smiles, gestures of embarrassment and suddenly, suddenly his father who's opening his mouth, about to -but why ?- ask his mother in marriage
That's when the young man gets up and screams towards the screen
"Don't do that !
It's not too late to change your mind
Both of you...
Nothing good will come out of this, only remorses, hartred
Scandals and two children with a monstruous temper"
Next to him, an old lady forces him to sit
"Stay calm young man, sit back"
Which he does, but, a few minutes later when his father and his mother avoid each other, argue, and yet persist in the mariage project, the boy gets up again
"What are you doing, what are you doing with your lives ?"
The old lady, this time, irritated
"That's the last straw; it's just a movie, nothing but a movie, behave in a more responsible way !"
In the room, another man starts too
"You hold these people accountable on screen while you, you're doing nothing ! We don't scream like this in a movie theater. Think about you first before accusing others. What are you doing, you ?"
So the boy closes his eyes
Or rather opens them
On others' lives, which power do we hold ?
And on ours ?
Soon, he'll wake up, the sun around him will have already risen, it'll be the first day of this 21 years old
[Outro]
You had to be equal to your dreams
You had to increase the doses
Be equal to your dreals
You had to increase the doses
Increase
Increase
(And I guess that I just don't know)
(I guess)
Increase the doses
Increase
(And I guess, I guess that I just don't know)
Increase