Spreading the Disease
Queensr˙che, 1988
(album: Operation: Mindcrime)
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 life-blood from the savior's feet.
She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice.
He takes her once a week on the altar like a sacrifice.
Spreading the disease everybody needs
But no one wants to see
Religion and sex are power plays.
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