When I was just a little girl
My mother said to me
Just before she tucked me into bed
As she leaned in close
I felt her lips upon my cheek
And softly these six words are what she said
You're gonna suffer for my sins
You're gonna suffer for my sins
There is no escaping this
It comes from deep within
You're gonna suffer for my sins
Predictably those cursed words
Did haunt me every day
No matter where
No matter what I hid
I spent my years believing
That there was no other way
But suffering
And suffering's what I did
Oh yes I suffered for her sins
That's right I suffered for her sins
There is no escaping this
It comes from deep within
And so I suffered for her sins
Thirty years have passed
Since Mama brought me to this world
That's thirty years spent trapped inside this shell
And nobody believes me
They think I'm a foolish girl
But there are many different kinds of hell
And so I suffer for her sins
That's right I suffer for her sins
There is no escaping this
It comes from deep within
And so I suffer for her sins
Oh yes, I suffer for her sins
That's right, I suffer for her sins