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I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

2004Released
3:52

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The album is a story of a man and a woman. They both die - the man goes to hell and the woman goes to heaven. The man then makes a deal with the Devil that if he brings 1000 evil souls to the Devil he can be with his wife again. As the last song on the album, this tells the conclusion of their story: And we'll all dance alone to the tune of your death we'll love again, we'll laugh again and it's better off this way and never again, and never again they gave us two shots to the back of the head and we're all dead now

This is the last song on the album, and it is his last night of killing before his deal with the Devil will be completed and he can see his lover again, hence the lyrics, "Another night and I'll see you" because he is almost done collecting 1000 souls. All the killing that he has done has made him feel dirty and the "stain that won't come off the sheets" is referring to something that he'll never be able to forget. He thinks the Devil has lied to him, and he didn't send him to his lover, but he feels that he should stop killing now as they'll eventually meet again in another life. The Devil ruined his plans of being with his wife and metaphorically shot him twice in the back of the head, and now they're both dead.

Along with "Helena," this was featured in the 2005 horror movie House of Wax.

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Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of I Never Told You What I Do for a Living.
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Reprise
© 2004 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
℗ 2004 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.

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