Growing up in Public — текст песни (Lou Reed)

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

Theyre quasi-effeminate characters in love with oral gratification

They edify your integrities, so they can play on your fears



Theyre gonna do you in public, cause youre growing up in public

Theyre gonna do it to you in public,

cause youre growing up in public with your pants down



Some people think being a man is unmanly

Some people think that the whole concepts a joke

But some people think being a man is the whole point

And then some people wish theyd 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, Im really caught in the middle

Im caught in the middle, caught in the middle deciding about you