Spreading the Disease Songtext
von Queensrÿche

She always brings me what I need
Without a beg and sweat and bleed
When we′re alone at night, waiting for the call
She feeds my skin

16 and on the run from home
Found a job at Times Square, working live S&M shows
25 bucks a fuch, 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 can 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