[Verse 1]
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 is back on the streets again

[Chorus]
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see

[Verse 2]
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 altar like a sacrifice

[Chorus]
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see

[Guitar solo]
[Bridge]
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 get paid 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

[Chorus]
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
The way society
Keeps spreading the disease