Lyrics The Stooges

The Stooges

Dirty Deal

Met a creep who gets things done

He told me I'm the number one

He knew I was innocent

I knew he was fucking bent

He embraced me like a friend

Showed me all his monuments

I was impressed, what the hell,

Where I come from ain't much to tell.

Stealing all the way I feel

As I signed the dirty deal.

System's rigged to favor crooks,

You don't find that in civic books

It's not cool to ask a man

To sign what he don't understand.

Guys found other guys were right

Contract's starting, then the night

And when truth is violent

They'll hand you on a chain link fence.

Once you're in there's no appeal

You signed the dirty deal.

Beware, beware!

Dirty, it's dirty.

Once you're in there's no appeal

You signed the dirty deal.

Beware, beware!

Listen!

Let the lame old story down people

I was a dummy, not a clown, people.

I'm getting hard to be around people.

Warning, warning, beware, beware!

Welcome to the real world

Where trouble loves a pretty girl

Your compound interest drifted, scum

Bite your blood into it runs

Simple people praise the lord

Smarter people steal and hoard

If I was the president

I couldn't change their evil plans.

Stealing all the way I feel

'Cause I signed the dirty deal.

Dirty, it's dirty,

It's dirty, it's dirty out there.

The way I feel is I signed the dirty deal

Beware, beware.

Dirty deal, dirty deal.