Growing Up In Public Lyrics by 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

    Growing up in public, growing up in public
    Growing up in public, growing up in public with your pants down

    Some people are into sadistic pleasures
    They whet their desires and drool in your ears
    They're quasi-effeminate characters in love with oral gratification
    They edify your integrities, so they can play on your fears

    They're gonna do you in public, 'cause you're growing up in public
    They're gonna do it to you in public,
    'cause you're growing up in public with your pants down

    Some people think being a man is unmanly
    Some people think that the whole concept's a joke
    But some people think being a man is the whole point
    And then some people wish they'd never awoke

    Up from a dream of nightmarish proportions
    Down to a size neither regal nor calm
    A prince hamlet caught the middle between reason and instinct
    Caught in the middle with your pants down again

    Caught in the middle, i'm really caught in the middle
    I'm caught in the middle, caught in the middle deciding about you


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