Learn Your Lessons

Isn't this a grand world we live in?
Such ideals, righteous morals. Such tradition.
If you want to go out, do so with care.
Don't forget your lessons. They'll keep you fair.
I've got such lessons to teach you.
They'll make you good and keep you healthy too.

Chorus: Always hold plenty of envy deep in your heart.
Hate those models in the magazines as if it were an art.
And don't you forget your gluttony.
Join the world in pigging out and watching TV.
If you want to succeed, greed is something you'll need.
Everyone always asks for more. And to this you must heed.
A little bit of cocktails, a little bit of lust.
You don't want to be the only one not sticking out your bust.
if you want to get ahead, hold pride in your head.
Keep your ego growing bigger everyday until you're dead.
And sloth, sweet sloth. Child you must be lazy.
it's something everyone is, and you must be too don't you see?
Now, darling little thing, wrath is by far the best.
Follow your forefathers, punch something, let's put you to the test.
You've got to learn your lessons if you want to fit in here.
I'll teach you the ways of today, if you only lend me your ears.

These lessons will help you get on in this life.
They'll teach you to survive without any strife.
These days, everyone holds these lessons dear.
If you want to fit in, better lean in to hear.
Wait, dear child, before you go out in this world.
Listen o these secrets I have unfurl.

Chorus

I must admit, I used to be kind.
I used to have other people on my mind.
Greed, pride, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy and sloth
Never seemed for me. But then came the frost.
The world beat me hard. It let me down.
until I realized I had to turn myself around.
I had to be bad for life to be good.
I guess that's how things go in this worldly neighborhood.
Learn from my mistakes. Don't be like me.
You've got to learn these lessons to be free.

Chorus

Those seven deadly sins became seven lessons long ago.
We teach them to our children unsuspectingly, down to the soul.
We deny it wholeheartedly, say we never do.
But we always have. And we all know it's true.
Pick up your pencils and let's start taking some notes.
Because it's the bad, not the good, on which this world dotes.