Spreading the disease - Operation: Mindcrime (1988) Heavy, Progressive Metal /USA
She always brings me what I need Without I beg and sweat and bleed When we're alone at night Waiting for the call She feeds my skin
Sixteen and on the run from home Found a job in Times Square Working Live S&M shows Twenty-five bucks (a fuck) And John's a happy man She wipes the filth away And it's back on the streets again
Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see
Father William saved her from the streets She drank the lifeblood from the saviour's feet She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice He takes her once a week On the alter like a sacrifice
Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see
Religion and sex are powerplays Manipulate the people for the money they pay Selling skin, selling God The numbers look the same on their credit cards Politicians say no to drugs While we pay for wars in South America
Fighting fire with empty words While the banks get fat And the poor stay poor And the rich get rich And the cops get paid To look away As the one percent rules America
Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see The way society Keeps spreading the disease