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By Lou Reed
From the album, "Berlin"
Sunday, Jul 28, 2013
Editor's
comment: A friend of mine who lives in the United States
and I were talking today about what it means to sever ties with family
of origin. Our friendship has gone back 30 years now. In his case he
severed ties as a result of a "bully father" and physical abuse; in my
case it was a result of fundamentalist religion, ignorance and support
of US wars. We talked about how strange the bond of blood is and how
difficult it is to cut ties with our families when those relationships
become useless or destructive. I commented to my friend that it's
strange how wealthy fathers and sons who have no relations with one
another and may even hate each other, end up meeting for the first time
in years after the wealthy father has died at the estate lawyer's
reading of the will, leaving everything to that son whom he so despised.
My good friend sent me this song by Lou Reed in
response.
- Les Blough, Editor
The
Lyrics
Men of good
fortune
Often cause empires to fall
While men of poor
beginnings
Often can't do anything at
all
The rich son waits for his father to
die
The poor just drink and cry
And me, I just don't
care at all
Men of good fortune
Very often
can't do a thing
While men of poor beginnings
Often
can do anything
At heart they try to act like a
man
Handle things the best way they can
They have no
rich, daddy to fall back on
Men of good
fortune
Often cause empires to fall
While men of poor
beginnings
Often can't do anything at all
It
takes money to make money they say
Look at the fords, but
didn't they start that way
Anyway, it makes no difference to
me
Men of good fortune
Often wish that they
could die
While men of poor beginnings
Want what they
have and to get it they'll die
All those great things
that life has has to give
They wanna have money and
live
But me, I just don't care at all
Men of
good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good
fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good
fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good
fortune
Men of poor beginnings
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