Standing on Ceremony Lyrics by Lou Reed

(from the album Growing Up In Public)

Standing on Ceremony Lyrics

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 juke box
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, you were always standing on ceremony
(standing, on ceremony)
(standing, on ceremony)
(standing, on ceremony)
(standing, on ceremony)
(standing, on ceremony)
(standing, on ceremony)
...

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Other Lyrics from Growing Up In Public

1. Growing up in Public Lyrics
2. How Do You Speak to an Angel Lyrics
3. Keep Away Lyrics
4. Love is Here to Stay Lyrics
5. My Old Man Lyrics
6. Smiles Lyrics
7. So Alone Lyrics
8. Teach The Gifted Children Lyrics
9. The Power of Positive Drinking Lyrics
10. Think It Over Lyrics

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• Magic And Loss Lyrics
• Set The Twilight Reeling Lyrics
• Live In Concert Lyrics
• Perfect Night: Live In London Lyrics
• Ecstasy Lyrics
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  This was unprecedented confrontation between artiste and audience of a kind that has echoed down the years, from Lou Reed to John Lydon.
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• Grande Dame Of Jazz Keeps Music Alive - Ny1
  Jacob's Upper East Side apartment is a shrine to the music and musicians she's worked with. “[I have] a picture taken on Louis Armstrong's birthday with
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