The song “Open House” is from the album “Songs for Drella,” which featured a song cycle that Lou and John Cale wrote about their late mentor Andy Warhol. It’s a quiet, melancholy track.
Home Life
This voice speaking in these lyrics is Andy’s. He invites his friends over to his home for tea. He talks about his background, his mother, his cats, his home, his work, and, finally, the universe with its moon and stars.
Room for Everybody
Then he remembers that New York City is its own universe, with its own stars. And he realizes that creating art is like having a totally “open house” – open to everybody and everything.
It’s grand, but frightening – just like life in New York can be so frightening. Frightening but grand.
Open House, Lou Reed and John Cale …
Lou Reed, Anthology of Memorable Lyrics.
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