I originally wrote this song for a contest. In 2014, Jaguar had an ad at the Super Bowl with the slogan "good to be bad." The ad featured British actors who had played villains in Hollywood movies. I wrote -- maybe tweeted -- Jaguar and told them I wished I could be a villain in a Hollywood movie. They told me that they couldn't help me achieve that goal, but that I could participate in their Villain contest. The prize was a trip to New Mexico and lessons from a race car driver driving their F4 around a racetrack. I decided that I would like to win this contest, because it might help me position myself as an actress who wants to play villain roles. I originally understood the rules of the contest to include writing a villain song. Later, when I read the rules again it said that we only had to name a villain song that we liked, but I had already written the words and melody to this song. I put a YouTube video up of me singing only the melody. I tweeted them the link to the YouTube video, but I also named another villain song that I really like. I didn't win the contest. I wasn't considered most villainous. However, I still had this song, so I decided to get it arranged. I hired my friend Stoddy Blackall to do the arrangement. He's a young singer/songwriter/pianist who is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music. I met him, because he was accompanying musical improv comedy in NYC and I have been studying musical improv comedy. I was always very impressed with his work as an improvisational accompanist. I found him to be exceptionally creative in a field of creative pianists. I think he's done an amazing job here. Then I had this piece professionally recorded at the Outlook Recording Studio in Bethel, Maine. Conni St. Pierre, one of the co-owners, added a bit of percussion, to make it even spookier and more foreboding. Cover photo by my son, Joseph McKenney-Barschall Warning: violent, sociopathic lyrics -- but it's really for fun. I don't want to kill you. I just want to play a villain. lyrics: Chorus ----------- I will use you. I will shed you In my path, you are my tool I will use you. I will shed you In my path, you are my fool. Verse 1 ----------- In life, I choose to step with style, And others serve, but for a while, To fall beneath my striding boot, Their slimed remains my triumph's root. Verse 2 ----------- And those who think to thwart my plot Will lie in shallow graves and rot As I in glory rise to reign And ever broaden my campaign Bridge --------- Compassion is a weak one's flaw And friendship others' cloying maw Alone I scheme to dominate And soft ones see me far too late