She grew up on the front pew of the Bethel Baptist Church
Her mama led the choir and her daddy preached the word
She got her angel wings the day that she was born
Nobody ever thought she'd end up growing horns
He blew into town on a dark and dusty wind
She fell like the rain for a kiss as sweet as sin
He set her world on fire till it all fell apart
But that devil made his match
The day he broke her heart
She's singing, Lord, forgive me for what I'm about to do
It ain't Christian, but this one ain't on you
Well, I've been sleeping with the well-known heathen
And I could sure use your help
Getting back up to heaven when I drop him off in hell
Well, it won't be no gun, it won't be no blade
But I'm bound to be the one to give him what he gave
Well, I know it ain't right, but after what he did to me
It's an eye for an eye, and I can't turn the other cheek
Singing, Lord, forgive me for what I'm about to do
It ain't Christian, but this one ain't on you
Well, I've been sleeping with the well-known heathen
And I could sure use your help
Getting back up to heaven when I drop him off in hell
She stood there like a stone by a jury of her peers
They sentenced her to life, but she never cried a tear
Her daddy smiled the day he found the note she left behind
He might have raised a cold-blood killer, but he raised the praying kind
Singing, Lord, forgive me for what I'm about to do
It ain't Christian, but this one ain't on you
Well, I've been sleeping with the well-known heathen
And I could sure use your help
Getting back up to heaven when I drop him off in hell
Getting back up to heaven
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