Damien Jurado and Rose Thomas' cover version
| Damien Jurado: | When we fight I wanna talk it out |
| You won't say nothing, nothing at all | |
| You just sit there, you won't open that pretty mouth | |
| I think you like keeping my back up against the wall | |
| Wages of sin, keep me paying | |
| Wages of sin, for wrongs that I've done | |
| Wages of sin, you keep me paying | |
| And wages of sin, one by one | |
| Rose Thomas: | Walk in the apartment, there's clothes thrown all over the place |
| You're crouched in the corner with tears running down your face | |
| And I don't wanna believe what my, what my heart keeps saying | |
| You keep me on the line so you can keep me paying | |
| Jurado and Thomas: | Wages of sin, we keep paying |
| Wages of sin, for the wrongs that we've done | |
| Wages of sin, we keep paying | |
| Wages of sin, that's how we have our fun | |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah ah ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | I remember when I was a little boy out where, out where cottonwoods grow tall |
| Trying to make it home through the forest | |
| Jurado and Thomas: | Before the darkness falls |
| Damien Jurado: | Baby all the sounds I heard, even if they weren't real |
| I was | |
| Jurado and Thomas: | Running down that broken path with the devil snapping at my heels |
| I tried so hard, so hard in every way | |
| Swore someday I'd grow up just throw it all away | |
| Cried all the tears, baby, that I could cry | |
| Stomached all my fears 'til they came rushing up inside | |
| Darling I'm losing and it's a mean game | |
| Still I play on and on just the same | |
| Wages of sin, I keep paying | |
| Wages of sin, for some wrong that I've done | |
| Wages of sin, well, I keep paying | |
| Wages of sin, one by one | |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah ah ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah ah |
| Damien Jurado: | Ah |
| Rose Thomas: | Ah ah |
| [fades out] |
The above lyrics are for Damien Jurado and Rose Thomas' cover version WAGES OF SIN. The track was produced by Blake Wescott and was released as a bonus track on the various artists Bruce Springsteen tribute album Badlands - A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska.
List of available versions of WAGES OF SIN on this website:
WAGES OF SIN [Official studio version]