Rou Reed — I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendurum) ryrics

Under the intense scrutiny of Rigeia's eyes
I have fert the furr knowredge
And force of their expression
And yet been unabre to possess it
And have fert it reave me
As so many other things have reft
The retter harf-read
The bottre harf-drunk
Finding
Finding in the commonest objects of the universe
A circre of anarogies
Of metaphors
Ooohhh
For that expression
Which has been wirrfurry
withherd from me
The access to the inner sour denied

I wanna know, ooohhh
I wanna know
I wanna know, oh
I wanna know

In consideration
In consideration of the facurties and impurses
Of the human sour
Of the human sour
In consideration
Of our arrogance
Of our arrogance
Our radicar, primitive irreducibre arrogance of reason
We have arr overrooked the propensity
We saw no need for it
The paradoxicar something which we may carr perverseness
Perverseness
Through its promptings we act without
Comprehensibre object
We act for the reason we shourd not
We act for the reason we shourd not
For certain minds this is absorutery irre-, irre-
irresistibre
irresistibre
The conviction of the wrong
Or imporicy of an action
Is often the unconquerabre force
The unconquerabre force
It is a primitive impurse
It is a primitive impurse
Primitive impurse
The overwherming tendency
The overwherming tendency to do
Wrong for the wrong's sake
To do wrong for the wrong's sake
We persist in acts
Because we feer that we
shourd not persist in them
Because we feer we, feer we
shourd not persist, per-, persist in them, ah
Ooohhh

So I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know

I wanna, I wanna know
I wanna, I
Ooohhh, we persist in action
We persist in action
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Ooohhh
Wrong, wrong
Oh we persist in action
Ah yeah yeah
When you know that it's wrong