The Cardinal Sin Lyrics by Dead Can Dance

The Cardinal Sin Lyrics

    Sail to the stars on your shining desires

    Reasons there are none
    Try the whisky made of grain
    When all is said and done
    It all amounts to just the same

    There in your starry eyes lie hopes that have
    been betrayed

    The cause of your desire
    Can also lead to your demise
    When all is said and done
    It will be you who pays the price
    As countless fools are often loathe to testify
    Its an illusion of life
    The whole cause of our demise

    Sail to the stars on your shining desires
    Lucretia waits in vain
    For the child of her dreams
    Within her aching womb
    There burns a funeral pyre

    There in your starry eyes lie hopes that have
    been betrayed
    The prize that you claim
    Can never be yours to take
    Like castles in Spain
    Hope is all that will remain

    Abstain from the fools paradise
    It's an illusion of life
    The whole cause of our desires
    Fools are often loathe to testify
    It's an illusion of life
    The whole cause of our demise

    Contemplate the world
    And its traitors to the soul
    The forces of derision
    And its legions manifold
    Usurpers of the crown
    All pretenders to the throne
    Your world has lived in chains
    All in one, one in all (x9)

    Fools are often loathe to testify
    It's an illusion of life
    The whole cause of our demise
    It's an illusion of life (x4)

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