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cecil kellaway - what a blessing lyrics

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[birdsong]
i know it’s the devil who tempts me to crime
and to sin and corruption, and worse
but i find on resisting him time after time
that i can’t quite believe he’s a curse
for in face, i believe the reverse

what a blessing to know there’s a devil
and that i’m but a p+wn in his game
that my impulse to sin
doesn’t come from within
and so i’m not exactly to blame

what a blessing to know there’s a devil
ever leading me into some vice
and though easily led
i can hold up my head
knowing i’m fundamentally nice

what relief, oh, what blessed relief
that a thief is by nature no thief
and a liar is merely the innocent buyer
of lies from the liar+in+chief
so of course the remorse may be brief

what a blessing to know there’s a devil
and that i’m but a p+wn in his game
for i never do wrong
until he comes along
and so i’m not exactly the one
who’s to blame
it’s a fact, it’s a comforting fact
that the soul remains whole and intact
facing fraud and deceit, a forbidden sweetmeat
or some game in which cards have been stacked
with this thought, for when caught in the act

what a blessing to know there’s a devil
and that we’re not exactly to blame
for all guile and all greed
and each rotten misdeed
which might blacken sweet mankind’s good name

what a blessing to know there’s a devil
or we’d all simply die of shame

- cecil kellaway lyrics

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