Prominent Men (Demo)

by The Velvet Underground

From the album: Peel Slowly and See

Track 2 of 74 on Peel Slowly and See (1995).

Duration: 4:53

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Lyrics for Prominent Men (Demo)

Through all of the highways and byways I've traveled Through all of the side streets and alleys of sin Through all that's been heard nothing sinks quite as low As the prominent statements of prominent men Prominent men, tell prominent stories Prominent men, tell prominent lies Prominent men, kiss the ass of Dame Fortune Prominent men will tear out your eyes The streets that have life with the cat's underbelly Aligned with their tracks of a thousand goodbyes A poor woman screams with the heat of disaster As the prominent men sit and strengthen their ties Oh, the prominent girls of the prominent people Make prominent dresses and prominent hair Oh, their prominent wealth with their eyes blazed with shadow The prominent horrors of the ghost millionaire The shiny stained window's now cracked at sunset They shiny red dawn of the heart soon must fall This simply occurred at the seat of the cauldron Those prominent men hadn't been there at all Prominent men, tell prominent stories Prominent men, tell prominent lies Prominent men, kiss the ass of Dame Fortune Prominent men will tear out your eyes Oh, the prominent child of these prominent people Seeks prominent schools with the finery of age With a prominent pink of a tasteless red orchid The prominent men casts a prominent heir The child of the agent, walks barefoot upon grass He screams with a power that terror's green eyes His knife harshly glistening, stabs noways and always But the prominent men are nowhere in sight Prominent men, tell prominent stories Prominent men, tell prominent lies Prominent men, kiss the ass of Dame Fortune Prominent men will tear out your eyes

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