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Sinful is an unreleased song by Marina Diamandis, intended for her first studio album, The Family Jewels.

It was written by Marina, Liam Howe and Pascal Gabriel, and produced by Howe and Gabriel.

Registration[]

In July 2010, Pascal Gabriel revealed the song was written in the same session as Rootless, and was intended be a bonus track on the album.[1]

The song was first registered sometime prior to January 2011.[2]

On ASCAP/BMI it was registered once,[3] and additionally 7 times on registry site GEMA,[4] every time with Pascal Gabriel and Liam Howe as co-writers. Each version is under the registration status "2" which indicates a work not yet distributable. The first is under the frame type "original" and the rest under the frame type "remodelling", with slightly different publishers. It has no ISCW number.

Trivia[]

  • This is the only (known) The Family Jewels outtake Marina didn't release or tease in some capacity.
  • Because the song was leaked in 2011, it was often falsely believed to be a die Life or Electra Heart outtake.

Official Versions[]

Version Released on Date Length
[5] Final (Snippet) N/A - Unreleased Leaked: 01 Jul 2022 0:10
Demos
[6] Demo N/A - Unreleased Leaked: ~Mar 2011 3:38


Lyrics[]

[Verse 1]
I lost my spine inside the centre of a star
And every day I wonder where the bad bones are
You die an ugly day if you hit and miss
I know my own grand daddy worked so hard for this

[Chorus]
It seems so sinful living like a porcupine
I know you're dreaming of the time when you were mine
It seems so sinful, it seems so sinful
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)

[Verse 2]
You kicked me out and hung a rope down from the roof
The Christians came out, they watched me tie my noose
I spoke a silent prayer, they began crying
They knew that I'd applied to Hell, they knew I got in

[Chorus]
It seems so sinful living like a porcupine
I know you're dreaming of the time when you were mine
It seems so sinful, it seems so sinful
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)

[Bridge]
Ooh, it seems so simple now, ooh
Ooh, it seems so sinful, ooh

[Outro]
It seems so sinful, it seems so sinful
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)
It seems so sinful, it seems so sinful
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)
It seems so sinful, it seems so sinful
(Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)
(It seems so sinful)

[Snippet]
You live your whole life hiding underneath your spines
It seems so sinful

References[]

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