Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public

Standing On Ceremony

Remember your manners
Will you please take your hat off
Your mother is dying
Listen to her cough

We were always standing on ceremony
We were always standing on ceremony

Can't you show some respect please
Although you didn't in real life
Your mother is dying
And I god-damn well hope you're satisfied

We were always standing on ceremony
We were always standing on ceremony

So please play another song on that jukebox
Please play another pretty sad song for me
And if that phone rings, tell them that you haven't seen me
If that last phone rings
Tell them that you haven't seen me for weeks
And this one here's on me

Standing on ceremony, standing on ceremony
Standing on ceremony, standing on ceremony
Standing on ceremony (standing, on ceremony)
You were always standing on ceremony

(Standing on ceremony)
(Standing on ceremony)
(Standing on ceremony)
(Standing on ceremony)
(Standing on ceremony) ooh, yeah
(Standing on ceremony)



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Writer(s): Lou Reed, Michael Fonfara
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Other Album Tracks

  1. How Do You Speak to an Angel
  2. My Old Man
  3. Keep Away
  4. Growing Up In Public
  5. Standing On Ceremony
  6. So Alone
  7. Love Is Here to Stay
  8. The Power of Positive Drinking
  9. Smiles
  10. Think It Over

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Altri album

  1. Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65
  2. Open Invitation - Single
  3. Ghetto Ghosts (Live 1972)
  4. Gee Whiz, 1958-1964 - EP
  5. Words & Music, May 1965
  6. I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos
  7. Men of Good Fortune - May 1965 Demo - Single
  8. Heroin - May 1965 Demo - Single
  9. I'm Waiting for the Man (May 1965 Demo)
  10. Live At Alice Tully Hall (January 27, 1973 - 2nd Show)

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