*John Cale (músico galés)

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.

Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, severin awaits you there.

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears.

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.

Severin, severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the boot, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now plead for me.

I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears.

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.

John Cale, compositor, productor y cantante, nació en Garnant (Gales) en marzo de 1942. En 1965 fundó con Lou Reed el legendario grupo The Velvet Underground. Aunque Lou Reed puso el carisma, la voz y las letras, Cale, muy influenciado por la música clásica y el minimalismo, inventó los arreglos y esa atmósfera enrarecida, tan característica del grupo, con su viola delirante y monótona.
Como productor, ha sido el alma mater del punk y de la New Wave. A él se deben los primeros discos de los Stooges, Nico, Modern Lovers, y el magistral “Horses” de Patti Smith.