Girl Gone Wild Lyrics

Lyric discussion by madonnasotherman 

Cover art for Girl Gone Wild lyrics by Madonna

Your lyrics at the beginning are wrong. She is praying Lucifer's prayer at the beginning. She is praying as a liar would. HEARTLY is NOT a word. She is using the word HARDLY, meaning that she IS NOT sorry. She is trying piss God off with her ridiculous, empty, useless prayer. Its the same as someone knowing they are pissing you off and saying that they ARE NOT really sorry.

Who else would miss heaven and dread hell? Think about it. She is being deceptive.

I'm pretty sure you are wrong. It clearly is the word "heartily", which is used in (most versions of) the act of contrition prayer. Example:

"O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended You and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of your grace, to confess my sins, to do penance and to amend my life."