This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Evil evil evil
You make me feel so
Evil evil evil
You make me want to get
I tried to shield my soul from you
But your evil sleeped on through
Cause you're evil
I tried to hide in thought but I always end up caught
Thinking about getting evil evil
I don't know why I fight this feeling
When I should take it out on you
Evil evil evil
You make my thoughts turn to
Evil evil evil
You make me want to get
Delaying the suspense, destroy all innocence
And my thoughts turn to evil evil
Cooking up the hate do jour, the symptom is the cure
And I'm gonna get evil evil
It's the last thing that I wanted
But it's the first thing I should get
Make mine evil locked in evil
As my resistance is spent my actions get all bent
And it's time to get evil evil
My morals reach the junction
Where my conscience stops its function
And I'm gonna get evil evil
It's the last thing I was thinking
So it's thing that I'll do
Evil evil evil evil
You make me feel so
Evil evil evil
You make me want to get
I tried to shield my soul from you
But your evil sleeped on through
Cause you're evil
I tried to hide in thought but I always end up caught
Thinking about getting evil evil
I don't know why I fight this feeling
When I should take it out on you
Evil evil evil
You make my thoughts turn to
Evil evil evil
You make me want to get
Delaying the suspense, destroy all innocence
And my thoughts turn to evil evil
Cooking up the hate do jour, the symptom is the cure
And I'm gonna get evil evil
It's the last thing that I wanted
But it's the first thing I should get
Make mine evil locked in evil
As my resistance is spent my actions get all bent
And it's time to get evil evil
My morals reach the junction
Where my conscience stops its function
And I'm gonna get evil evil
It's the last thing I was thinking
So it's thing that I'll do
Evil evil evil evil
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
Evil Lyrics as written by Muir George
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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