Sinner

about this song

In “Sinner“, the speaker appears to feel a mix of attraction for an unspecified person, and shame at the desire he or she feels. The speaker regrets that they can’t return to a more innocent age – perhaps childhood, when friendship and even young love were “untainted” by sex. This is encapsulated in the idea of “sin”, a Christian concept that may also have a non-religious value here: the “sin” is the corruption of pure love by adulthood and the passions and lust that come with it.

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