Editing Career of Evil

{{Infobox song
|title=Career of Evil
|image=Secret treaties cover.jpg
|artist=[[Blue Öyster Cult]]
|album=''[[Secret Treaties]]''
|released=April 1974
|length=3:59 (album)<br>2:55 (7" single)
|writers=[[Albert Bouchard]]<br>[[Patti Smith]]
|lead-vocals=[[Eric Bloom]]<br>Albert Bouchard}}
'''Career of Evil''' is the first track from [[Blue Öyster Cult]]'s third studio album, ''[[Secret Treaties]]''. It was released as a 7" single with "[[Dominance and Submission]]" as its B-side, which did not chart.

== Lyrics ==
<poem style="border: 1px solid #8eb6d4; background-color: #0b0b14; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 3em; border-radius: 10px; width: fit-content">
<tabber>|-|Secret Treaties=
I plot your rubric scarab
I steal your satellite
I want your wife to be my
Baby tonight, baby tonight

I choose to steal what you choose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil

Pay me, I'll be your surgeon
I'd like to pick your brain
Capture you, inject you
Leave you kneeling in the rain
Kneeling in the rain

I choose to steal what you choose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil

''Hey, hey, hey, hey!''

I'd like your blue-eyed horseshoe
I'd like your emerald horny toad
I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road

And then I'd spend your ransom money
But still, I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing
And then rob you of your sleep
Rob you of your sleep

I choose to steal what you choose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil

''Hey!''

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
|-|Single=
I plot your rubric scarab
I steal your satellite
I want your life to be mine
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight

I choose to steal what you choose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil

I'd like your blue-eyed horseshoe
I'd like your emerald horny toad
I'd like to do it like you oughtt'a on a dirt road

And then I'd spend your ransom money
But still, I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing
And then rob you of your sleep
Rob you of your sleep

I choose to steal what you choose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil

''Hey!''

I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
I'm making a career of evil
</tabber></poem>

== Trivia ==
* The single version of this song differs from the album version by removing Albert Bouchard's part of the lead vocal, removing the second verse and chorus, and changing the following lyrics:
** "I want your wife to be my / Baby tonight, baby tonight" was changed to "I want your life to be mine / Maybe tonight, maybe tonight."
** "I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road" was changed to "I'd like to do it like you oughtt'a on a dirt road."
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