You know how us Catholic girls can be
We make up for so much time a little too late
I never forgot it, confusing as it was
No fun with no guilt feelings
The sinners, the saviors, the lover-less priests
I'll see you next Sunday
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
I sang Alleluia in the choir
I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man
My brothers they never went blind for what they did
But I may as well have
In the name of the Father, the skeptic and the Son
I had one more stupid question
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
What I learned I rejected, but I believe again
I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition
If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven?
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
We all had delusions in our head
We all had our minds made up for us
We had to believe in something
So we did
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
So we did, ooh, I, I, I
So we did
We make up for so much time a little too late
I never forgot it, confusing as it was
No fun with no guilt feelings
The sinners, the saviors, the lover-less priests
I'll see you next Sunday
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
I sang Alleluia in the choir
I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man
My brothers they never went blind for what they did
But I may as well have
In the name of the Father, the skeptic and the Son
I had one more stupid question
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
What I learned I rejected, but I believe again
I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition
If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven?
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
We all had delusions in our head
We all had our minds made up for us
We had to believe in something
So we did
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did
So we did, ooh, I, I, I
So we did
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Forgiven Lyrics as written by Alanis Nadine Morissette Glen Ballard
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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However I'm curious to know what you mean by "F--- the lies that Europe has spread all the way over here. It is time to be real with our kids." What lies would those be, and why are they only specific to Europe?
As a European, I can tell you that some Americans are often viewed as being delusional in terms of religion - while a lot of European countries still have very active Catholic communities, this is mostly generational. I would say that most people under the age of 40 have become disillusioned with the Catholic Church and organised religion. In Ireland especially (where I currently live), where abuse of the Catholic Church is a tragedy that affected thousands of people. It's quite rare to see Catholic activists in Europe (e.g. anti-abortion, pro-abstinence, etc) and I actually believe Europe to be mostly liberal and a lot less prude than America, but that's just in my experience since I have never lived in the US and my perception is mostly anecdotal and the result of what I've seen and read about these issues (and obviously I know that these communities are a small percentage of the American population and not at all representative of the nation as a whole).
By the way I'm not trying to pike holes in your opinions, I'm just interested to see the context of that particular comment.