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 live 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



Writer(s): Lou Reed


Lou Reed - The Sire Years: Complete Albums Box
Album The Sire Years: Complete Albums Box
date of release
30-10-2015

1   Heroin (Live Version)
2   How Do You Think It Feels (Live Version)
3   Street Hassle (Live Version)
4   Smalltown (Live Version)
5   Venus in Furs (Live Version)
6   The Raven (Live Version)
7   The Day John Kennedy Died (Live Version)
8   The Bed (Live Version)
9   Sunday Morning (Live Version)
10   Revien Cherie (Live Version)
11   Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. II [Recorded Live July 4th, 1995]
12   Men of Good Fortune (Live Version)
13   All Tomorrow's Parties (Live Version)
14   Perfect Day
15   Guilty (Edit)
16   I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
17   Nobody but You
18   Xmas In February
19   Call On Me
20   Baton Rouge
21   Future Farmers Of America
22   Change
23   Warrior King - Revenge
24   Mad
25   Into The Divine - Live Version
26   White Prism
27   Talking Book - Live Version
28   Turning Time Around
29   Forever Changed
30   Dreamin' - Escape
31   Romeo Had Juliette
32   Endless Cycle
33   There Is No Time
34   Beginning of a Great Adventure
35   Sick Of You
36   Hold On
37   Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
38   Smalltown
39   Open House
40   Work
41   Starlight
42   Egg Cream
43   NYC Man
44   Trade In
45   Hang on to Your Emotions
46   Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. II [Live]
47   Paranoia Key of E
48   Mystic Child
49   Ecstasy
50   Modern Dance
51   Tatters
52   Rock Minuet
53   Big Sky
54   The Valley of Unrest
55   The City in the Sea / Shadow
56   Balloon
57   Broadway Song
58   The Tell Tale Heart, Pt. 1
59   Tell Tale Heart, Pt. 2
60   Imp of the Perverse
61   Vanishing Act
62   The Cask
63   A Wild Being from Birth
64   Every Frog Has His Day
65   Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
66   Guardian Angel
67   Tell It to Your Heart (Live Version)
68   Vanishing Act (Live Version)
69   Ecstasy (Live Version)
70   Call on Me (Live Version)
71   Candy Says (Live Version)
72   Set the Twilight Reeling (Live Version)
73   A Thousand Departed Friends
74   Dorita (The Spirit)
75   Fire Music
76   Overture
77   Rouge
78   Hello It's Me
79   Dirty Blvd.
80   Strawman
81   Perfect Day (Live Version)
82   Dirty Blvd. (Live Version)
83   The Courtly Orangutans
84   What's Good (The Thesis)
85   Busload of Faith
86   The Bed
87   The Raven
88   Set the Twilight Reeling
89   Kicks (Live Version)
90   Riptide
91   The Kids (Live Version)
92   Coney Island Baby (Live Version)
93   Riptide (Live Version)
94   Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
95   Original Wrapper (Live Version)
96   Advice (Live Version)
97   Hop Frog (feat. David Bowie)
98   Guilty (feat. Ornette Coleman)
99   Blind Rage
100   Halloween Parade
101   Burning Embers
102   Last Great American Whale
103   Science Of The Mind
104   Annabel Lee/The Bells
105   Dime Store Mystery
106   Tripitena's Speech
107   Style It Takes
108   Trouble With Classicists
109   Faces And Names
110   Images
111   Slip Away (A Warning)
112   It Wasn't Me
113   I Believe
114   A Dream
115   Power and Glory - The Situation
116   Magician - Internally
117   Sword of Damocles - Externally
118   Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)
119   Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
120   No Chance - Regret
121   Gassed And Stoned - Loss
122   Power and Glory, Pt. II - Magic - Transformation
123   Magic And Loss (Summation)
124   Finish Line
125   Hookywooky
126   The Propostion
127   Adventurer
128   I'll Be Your Mirror (Live Version)
129   Vicious (Live Version)
130   Busload Of Faith - Live Version
131   New Sensations - Live Version
132   Why Do You Talk (Live Version)
133   Like A Possum
134   The Conqueror Worm
135   Old Poe
136   Prologue
137   Edgar Allan Poe
138   The Fall Of The House Of Usher




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