The Gift (The Velvet Underground song)

"The Gift"
Song by the Velvet Underground
from the album White Light/White Heat
ReleasedJanuary 30, 1968 (1968-01-30)
RecordedSeptember 1967
StudioScepter Studios, New York City
Genre
Length8:19
LabelVerve
Composers
LyricistLou Reed
ProducerTom Wilson

"The Gift" is a song by the Velvet Underground from their 1968 album White Light/White Heat. The song is over eight minutes long and, in the stereo version, mixed in such a way that John Cale reading a short story by Lou Reed can be heard in the left channel while a rock instrumental is heard on the right.

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