It's A Sin -- Pet Shop Boys

Charted: 1987
Peaked at #9
EMI America -- 43027
Written by Tennant / Lowe
From the album "Actually"
B-Side "You Know Where You Went Wrong"
Cassette and 45 RPM -- 4:58

Twenty seconds and counting
T minus fifteen seconds
Guidance is okay

When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too

Chorus:
It's a, it's a, it's a
It's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin

At school, they taught me how to be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn't quite succeed
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too

Chorus

Father, forgive me
I tried not to do it
Turned over a new leaf
Then tore right through it
Whatever you taught me
I didn't believe it
Father, you fought me
'Cause, I didn't care
And I still don't understand

So I look back upon my life
Forever with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too

Chorus

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin

Confiteor Deo omnipotenti vobis fratres
Quia peccavi nimis cogitatione
Verbo, opere et omissione
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
(I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers
That I have sinned exceedingly
In thought, word, act and omission
Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault)

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