Prominent Men Lyrics - Velvet Underground

Through all of the highways, the byways I've travelled 

Through all of the sidestreets 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 good-byes 

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 and their eyes blazed with shadow 

The prominent horrors with the ghost millionaire 

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The shiny stained window 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 those prominent men in nowhere in sight 

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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