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Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint

Mick Jagger (mainly), 1968

I read he was riffing on Baudelaire (Fleurs de mal, presumably) and Bulgakov, whose The Master and Margerita was a critique of the Soviet Union, as I recall the history, although apparently, and perhaps paradoxically, Stalin himself supported him at certain points of his largely truncated and destroyed artistic career.