{"id":1521,"date":"2003-07-26T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/27\/when-youre-evil\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:12:58","slug":"when-youre-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/26\/when-youre-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"When You&#039;re Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I found this song by Voltaire on a sampler from Projekt Records. It&#8217;s a good sampler, but this is easily the best of the bunch. Gypsy-ish melody, music that&#8217;s mostly violin and drumkit, and wonderful lyrics that sound to me like they&#8217;re sung with a quite mischevious glint in the eye. Gets me grinning every time I hear it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When the Devil is too busy,<br \/>\n  and Death&#8217;s a bit too much,<br \/>\n  They call on me &#8212; by name you see &#8212;<br \/>\n  for my special touch.<br \/>\n  To the gentlemen I&#8217;m Miss Fortune,<br \/>\n  To the ladies I&#8217;m Sir Prize,<br \/>\n  But call me by any name,<br \/>\n  any way it&#8217;s all the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m the fly in your soup,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the pebble in your shoe,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the pea beneath your bed,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m a bump on every head,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the peel on which you slip,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m a pin in every hip,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the thorn in your side,<br \/>\n  Makes you wriggle and writhe &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>  (Chorus)<br \/>\n  And it&#8217;s so easy when you&#8217;re evil!<br \/>\n  This is the life, you see<br \/>\n  The Devil tips his hat to me.<br \/>\n  I do it all because I&#8217;m evil,<br \/>\n  And I do it all for free&#8230;<br \/>\n  Your tears are all the pay I&#8217;ll ever need.<\/p>\n<p>  While there&#8217;s children to make sad,<br \/>\n  While there&#8217;s candy to be had,<br \/>\n  While there&#8217;s pockets left to pick,<br \/>\n  While there&#8217;s grannies left to trip down the stairs<br \/>\n  I&#8217;ll be there, I&#8217;ll be waiting round the corner<br \/>\n  It&#8217;s a game, i&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m in it<br \/>\n  &#8217;cause there&#8217;s one born every minute.<\/p>\n<p>  (Chorus)<\/p>\n<p>  I pledge my allegiance to all things dark<br \/>\n  And I promise on my damned soul<br \/>\n  To do as I am told, Lord Beelzebub<br \/>\n  Has never seen a soldier quite like me,<br \/>\n  Not only does his job but does it happily.<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m the fear that keeps you awake,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the shadows on the wall,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the monsters they become,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the nightmare in your skull,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m a dagger in your back,<br \/>\n  An extra turn upon the rack,<br \/>\n  I&#8217;m the quivering in your heart,<br \/>\n  A stabbing pain, a sudden start.<\/p>\n<p>  (Chorus)<\/p>\n<p>  And I&#8217;d do it all for free,<br \/>\n  Your tears are all the pay I&#8217;ll ever need.<br \/>\n  And I&#8217;d do it all for free,<br \/>\n  Your tears are all the pay I&#8217;ll ever need.<\/p>\n<p>  It gets so lonely being evil.<br \/>\n  What I&#8217;d do to see a smile,<br \/>\n  Even for a little while,<br \/>\n  And no one loves you when you&#8217;re evil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m lying though my teeth!<br \/>\n  Your tears are all the company I need!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And who says Goth&#8217;s don&#8217;t have a sense of humor? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this song by Voltaire on a sampler from Projekt Records. 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