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Cover art for Never Tell lyrics by Violent Femmes

This is one of my favorite Femmes songs. It's really sick though. I think it's about a father raping his daughter and the brother is agreeing never to tell but that it should never happen again. He'll go to Hell if it means not telling what his father has done. He considers telling and talks himself out of it. He'd rather go to hell than become a rat fink

Father, sister could be religous figures too. Maybe he's an alter boy.