Career of Evil

Album: Secret Treaties (1974)
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  • I plot your rubric scarab, I steal your satellite
    I want your wife to be my baby tonight
    I choose to steal what you chose to show
    And you know I will not apologize
    You're mine for the taking
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil

    Pay me I'll be your surgeon, I'd like to pick your brains
    Capture you, Inject you, leave you kneeling in the rain
    I choose to steal what you chose to show
    And you know I will not apologize
    You're mine for the taking
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil

    I'd like your blue eyed horseshoe, I'd like your emerald horny toad
    I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road

    And then I'd spend your ransom money, but still I'd keep your sheep
    I'd peel the mask you're wearing, and then rob you of your sleep
    I choose to steal what you chose to show
    And you know I will not apologize
    You're mine for the taking
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil
    I'm making a career of evil Writer/s: Albert Bouchard, Patti Smith
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Mo'0 from NycNot only did the single tone down the lyrics (which wrecked the song) - it also did away with most of the "twin lead" vocals where Eric Bloom and A.Bouchard sing in p4th or p5th harmony throughout most of the verse(s). Spending "your ransom money but still keeping your sheep.".. after 'doing it' to your daughter on a 'dirt road'..... PURE EVIL LOL. Fantastic lyric by the great Patti Smith - sets the tone of album perfectly. "Secret Treaties" is absolutely one of the greatest recordings of the 1970s - and I'm not being facetious or sarcastic - deadly serious... it's that good. "TOO MUCH REVOLUTION...THEN..." Indeed.
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