You Wear It So Well Lyrics

Lyric discussion by rosalyre 

Cover art for You Wear It So Well lyrics by Lou Reed

This could be about Nico, or any number of people he knew who'd had rough lives but didn’t go around crying about it. He’s clearly a great admirer of people like that. He certainly never hid his pain, he made a living writing about it - which is kind of a luxury, in a way. Women are expected to put on a happy face all the time. This song is probably about a woman.