Better By You, Better Than Me

"Better By You, Better Than Me" is the seventh track from British rock band Spooky Tooth's Spooky Two, released in 1969. It was covered by British heavy metal band Judas Priest in 1977 for their album Stained Class.
In 1985, two young American adults became intoxicated listening to this song, which supposedly convinced them to attempt suicide with a 12-gauge shotgun, killing one and severely disfiguring the other. The other would die of an overdose three years later. Judas Priest was on trial in 1991 for the incident on charges of the song containing subliminal messages saying "do it". The case was eventually dismissed.
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You could find a way to ease my passion 
You listen to the blood flow in my veins 
You hear the teaching of the wind 
Tell her why I'm alive within 
I can't find the words 
My mind is dead 
It's better by you better than me 
Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried 
To speak up thoughts I've held so inside 
Tell her now I've got to go 
Out in the streets and down the shore 
Tell her the world's not much for living for 
It's better by you better than me 
Everybody 
Everybody knows 
Everybody 
Everybody knows 
Better by you better than me 
You can tell what I want it to be 
You can say what I only can see 
It's better by you better than me 
Guess I'll have to change my way of living 
Don't wanna really know the way I feel 
Guess I'll learn to fight and kill 
Tell her not to wait until 
They'll find my blood upon her windowsill 
It's better by you better than me 
Everybody 
Everybody knows 
Everybody 
Everybody knows 
Better by you better than me 
You can say what I only can see 
You can tell what I want it to be 
Better by you better than me 
It's better by you better than me 
You can tell what I want it to be 
Better by you better than me 
You can say way all they can see
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