Lou Reed & John Cale / Songs For Drella (Sire / Warner Bros. Records, 9 26140-1) <April 11, 1990>

Lou Reed & John Cale / Songs For Drella (Sire / Warner Bros. Records, 9 26140-1) <April 11, 1990>
(side 1) 1-2-6140-A-SR1-DMM 1-1 MASTERDISK DMM
(side 2) 1-2-6140-B-SR1-DMM MASTERDISK DMM 2-1

US盤とヨーロッパ盤の基本デザインは同じですが、ラベルのデザインは大きく異なり、またUS盤はオリジナル・インナー・スリーヴの裏打ちのビニールがありません。プロモ表示はUS盤はゴールド・スタンプ、ヨーロッパ盤はシールです。マトはいずれも薄くかなり見づらいです。

このアルバムの録音作業の終わる頃にはCaleは「二度とLouとはやらない」と宣言したらしいです。有名な通り、アルバム発売直後の1990年6月に4人が揃って演奏するんですけどね。アルバムからは"Nobody But You"がドイツのみでシングル・カットされました。日本のMTVなんかでも"Songs For Drella全曲演奏ライヴ"の映像から作られたPVが流れていました。

Nobody But You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-a5UKVoZpY

I really care a lot
although I look like I do not
Since I was shot
there's nobody but you

I know I look blase
Party Andy's what the papers say
At dinner I'm the one who pays
for a nobody like you

Nobody but you
a nobody like you
Since I got shot
there's nobody but you

Won't you decorate my house
I'll sit there quiet as a mouse
You know me I like to look a lot
at nobody but you

I'll hold your hand and slap my face
I'll tickle you to your disgrace
Won't you put me in my proper place
a nobody like you

Sundays I pray a lot
I'd like to wind you up and paint your clock
I want to be what I am not
for a nobody like you

The bullet split my spleen and lung
the doctors said I was gone
Inside I've got some shattered bone
for nobody but you

Nobody but you
a nobody like you
Shattered bone
for nobody but you

I'm still not sure I didn't die
and if I'm dreaming I still have bad pains inside
I know I'll never be a bride
to nobody like you

I wish I had a stronger chin
my skin was good, my nose was thin
This is no movie I'd ask to be in
with a nobody like you

Nobody like you
a nobody like you
All my life

It's been nobodies like you