Lyrics to
Good Taste

Released by Lou Reed in 1974
From the Album: Sally Can't Dance |

This version of Good Taste was released by Lou Reed in 1974.

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You’re makin’ a fool out of yourself
By following me around
Like a Japanese woman who stands ten steps in the shadow of her man
You’re following me around
You’re following me around

You’re makin’ a joke of yourself
Your friends are talking behind your back
You’re makin’ a joke of yourself
Your friends are talking behind your back

What you gonna do
What you gonna do

Makin’ a fool of yourself over me
Makin’ a fool of yourself, can’t you see
Makin’ a fool of yourself over me
Over me, over me, over me
Proves that you have good taste

Makin’ a fool of yourself
By slipping around
Shooting up (?)
Under the ground

But it just gets to prove
That you’ve got good taste
You’ve got good taste


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Lou Reed has released many songs over the years besides Good Taste. Lou Reed released songs from 1972 to 2000 spanning across albums like Transformer, Lou Reed, Berlin, Sally Can't Dance, Rock 'n' Roll Animal, Coney Island Baby, Rock And Roll Heart, Street Hassle, The Bells, Growing Up In Public, The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, New Sensations, Mistrial, New York, Magic And Loss, Set The Twilight Reeling, and Ecstasy. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Lou Reed.

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The lyrics to Good Taste are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Lou Reed used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Good Taste have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Lou Reed and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Good Taste by Lou Reed. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Good Taste" means the words set to the music of Good Taste, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lou Reed. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Good Taste and the lyrics to Good Taste are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lou Reed who came here looking just for the lyrics to Good Taste, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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