"The Gift" is the second track that appears on White Light/White Heat, the 1968 second album by The Velvet Underground. The song is over eight minutes long and mixed in such a way that a short story can be heard in the left speaker, while a rock instrumental is heard on the right.
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“Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“the ghosts of the tribe
Crouch in the nights beside the ghost of a fire, they try to
remember the sunlight,
Light has died out of their skies.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)