Spreading the Disease

She always brings me what I need

Without, I beg and sweat and bleed

When we're alone at night and 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 savior'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 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, the poor stay poor

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