Some people are into the power of power
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The absolute corrupting power, that makes great men insane
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While some people find their refreshment in action
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The manipulation, encroachment and destruction of their inferiors
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Growing up in public, growing up in public
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Growing up in public, growing up in public with your pants down
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Some people are into sadistic pleasures
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They whet their desires and drool in your ears
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They're quasi-effeminate characters in love with oral gratification
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They edify your integrities, so they can play on your fears
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They're gonna do you in public, 'cause you're growing up in public
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They're gonna do it to you in public,
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'Cause you're growing up in public with your pants down
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Some people think being a man is unmanly
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Some people think that the whole concept's a joke
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But some people think being a man is the whole point
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And then some people wish they'd never awoke
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Up from a dream of nightmarish proportions
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Down to a size neither regal nor calm
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A Prince Hamlet caught the middle between reason and instinct
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Caught in the middle with your pants down again
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Caught in the middle, I'm really caught in the middle
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I'm caught in the middle, caught in the middle deciding about you
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Growing Up In Public
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Lou Reed |