Missionary Position - Lyrics - Paint It Black
"Paint It Black" is a song released by The Rolling Stones on 13 May 1966 as the first single from the US version of their fourth album Aftermath. Although originally titled without a comma, the release version was styled "Paint It, Black". Keith Richards has stated that the comma was added by the record label, Decca.
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Enter the plague-bearers throwing stones.
The not-in-god's-name swearers picking through the bones.
A refuge for cowards and hypocrites.
Their traps are baited and their fuses lit.
Preachers proselytize, and cancers metastasize.
And you've been properly anesthetized.
So you won't even flinch.
You won't notice the unmarked graves, for the victims of their crusades.
Cathedrals built on the backs of slaves.
They're the salesmen adept at deception, the neighborhood thugs selling "protection".
