Denial

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I will never cast the very first stone Like all the other bastards who will not own That they did what they did, what they had to do And furthermore I will never blame it on you [Verse 2] Ex-presidents are like ex-wives They all never mess with other peoples' lives They all did not have sex with that person And if you believe 'em then you deserve 'em [Chorus] Footsteps have unnerving sound They pound their way down the street Urgency is close behind In dark, in haste, in love, in kind Denial, denial [Verse 3] Blame it on the moon, blame it on the devil Blame it on the soon to be labeled infidel Revealed and regressed, concealed and confessed Crusader of conundrums religiously obsessed [Verse 4] For the sake of the children, for the sake of the country For the sake of tradition, for the sake of the diocese I'm afraid we have to cut the questions short Now we're at war and now we're in court [Chorus] Footsteps have unnerving sound They pound their way down the street What urgency is close behind Dark, in haste, in love, in kind Denial, denial [Verse 5] And I will not cast my line out to sea Somehow the tide belies chastity But the women 'round the cross were a motley crew And furthermore Jesus never blamed it on you [Verse 6] The tide rips and it rides, it floods and it dies It leaves a lot of blood on young girls' thighs And seventy-four virgins ain't my idea of heaven I died and went to college in 1967 Denial, denial [Verse 7] And I will not cast you in the roll of Madonna Mother of perfect children with a gin and tonic Playin' it to the hilt, innocence and guilt Playing Whistler's mother in a patchwork quilt [Verse 8] And I will not cast you in stone or in fire Only in the shadow of one man's desire And meet me at the well and not where you live And stop tryin' to hold love in a sieve [Chorus] Footsteps have unnerving sound They pound their way down the street Urgency is close behind In dark, in haste, in love, in kind Denial, denial [Verse 9] And I was the thousandth ship that you launched You a cocktail waitress in a honky-tonk But the waitress giveth and the waitress taketh away And leaves you the bill with the devil to pay [Verse 10] And ours is not to reason why Ours is but to do or die But the man in the cowboy hat and the monkey-suit Was DWI swervin' from the truth [Chorus] Footsteps have unnerving sound They pound their way down the street What urgency is close behind In dark, in haste, in love, in kind Denial, denial [Outro] Denial, denial Denial, denial Denial, denial