Hope You Guess My Name

Please allow me to introduce myself,

I'm a man of wealth and taste.

Ive been around for a long, long year

Stole many a mans soul and faith.

And I was around when jesus christ

Had his moment of doubt and pain,

Made damn sure that pilate

Washed his hands and sealed his fate.

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name.

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game.

I stuck around st. petersburg

When I saw it was a time for a change,

Killed the czar and his ministers,

Anastasia screamed in vain.

I rode a tank,

Held a generals rank

When the blitzkrieg raged

And the bodies stank.

Pleased to meet you,

Hope you guess my name, oh yeah.

Ah, whats puzzling you

Is the nature of my game.

I watched with glee

While your kings and queens

Fought for ten decades

For the gods they made.

I shouted out,

Who killed the kennedies?

When after all

It was you and me.

Let me please introduce myself,

I'm a man of wealth and taste.

And I laid traps for troubadours

Who get killed before they reached bombay.

Pleased to meet you,

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah.

But whats puzzling you

Is the nature of my game.

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah.

But whats confusing you

Is just the nature of my game.

Just as every cop is a criminal,

And all the sinners saints,

As heads is tails

Just call me lucifer,

'cause I'm in need of some restraint.

So if you meet me,

Have some courtesy

Have some sympathy, and some taste.

Use all your well-learned politesse,

Or I'll lay your soul to waste...

 

-The Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil"

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