Prominent Men - The Velvet Underground

Through all of the highways, the byways Ive travelled

Through all of the sidestreets and alleys of sin

Through all thats 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 cats 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

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 hadnt 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 terrors green eyes

His knife harshly glistening, stabs noways and always

But those prominent men in 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