Lou Reed - Growing Up in Public
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Release date: 30 November 1979
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- How Do You Speak to an Angel
- My Old Man
- Keep Away
- Growing Up in Public
- Standing on Ceremony
- So Alone
- Love Is Here to Stay
- The Power of Positive Drinking
- Smiles
- Think It Over
- Teach the Gifted Children
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Lou Reed - Growing Up in Public Lyrics
Lou Reed - Growing up in Public Lyrics
Some people are into the power of power
The absolute corrupting power, that makes great men insane
While some people find their refreshment in action
The manipulation, encroachment and destruction of their inferiors
Lou Reed - The Power of Positive Drinking Lyrics
Some like wine and some like hops
But what I really love is my scotch
It's the power, the power of positive drinking
Lou Reed - Teach The Gifted Children Lyrics
Teach the gifted children
Teach them to have mercy
Teach them about sunsets
Teach them about moon rise
Lou Reed - Standing on Ceremony Lyrics
Remember your manners
Will you please take your hat off
Your mother is dying
Listen to her cough
Lou Reed - So Alone Lyrics
She calls on the phone
She says she doesn't want to be alone
She says it's making her neurotic
But please don't mistake it for being erotic
Lou Reed - Smiles Lyrics
Smiles, I was taught never to smile
I was told the stylish smiles of buffoonery
And chicanery and larceny abound
Lou Reed - My Old Man Lyrics
When I was a young boy in Brooklyn
Going to public school
During recess in the concrete playground
They lined us up by twos
Lou Reed - Love is Here to Stay Lyrics
Love is here, here to stay
Love is here, here to stay
It gets proven every day
Love is here, here to stay
Lou Reed - Keep Away Lyrics
You keep your jealousy and your snide remarks to yourself
You know that I'm not seeing anybody else
You just keep your ear down to the ground
Yell your head off if you hear a sound
Lou Reed - How Do You Speak to an Angel Lyrics
A son who is cursed with a harridan mother
Or a weak simpering father at best
Is raised to play out the timeless classical motives
Of filial love and incest
Lou Reed - Think It Over Lyrics
Waking, he stared raptly at her face
On his lips, her smell, her taste
Black hair framing her perfect face
With her wonderful mind and her incredible grace
