The Scarlet Letter

She steps from jail, lady-like,
Head high, holds her baby tight.
Name's Hester, dressed in dark clothes like the rest,
With a big red A across her chest.
Stands for the sin she committed: adultery,
While her husband was away, maybe lost at sea.
And this is Boston, colonial times,
The way they punish the crime will be blowing your mind.
So as Hester Prynne stands in front of the crowd,
She spots a face, she's shocked, oh wow.
It's her long-lost husband, she doesn't tell,
The crowd who he is, he doesn't as well.
Calls himself Chillingworth, that's a made up the name,
He becomes the town doctor, alleviating pain.
In time he's going to act insane and crazy,
Trying to figure out who made this baby.

But Hester won't share the secret with the world,
She's giving love and care to her Pearl.
But the townsfolk don't want a single mom,
Raising a kid, they think she'll turn out wrong.
Until a minister with the gift of gab,
Defends Hester from the villagers' pressure.
Could it be this minister is Pearl's dad?
Chillingworth thinks that it is a fact.
The minister's name is Dimmesdale,
But his heart's weak, and it's making him frail.
So he moves in with Chillingworth, the doctor,
Who messes with his mind, 'cause he's sort of an impostor.
Late one night while the minister rests,
Chillingworth sneaks in, and sees a mark on his chest,
Yes! He smiles so devilish, a blood-sucking creep,
This dude is a leech.

The symbol of sin, the A on my chest,
I've been punished for love and hated for less.
My girl just wants a dad,
Could it be the one thing that she'll never have? (x2)

Years pass, Hester is getting liked,
Helping like a Samaritan, she's that nice.
One night, that's cold - no Tabasco,
She and Pearl see Dimmesdale on the scaffold.
He's alone, contemplating his sins,
Hester and Pearl join him, and the three hold hands.
A comet lights up an A in the night sky,
But Dimmesdale looks weak, like he might die.
Later he and Hester meet in the woods,
They plan to flee over to Europe for good.
Free to be a family, that'd be better,
For a minute Hester removes the red letter.
"Until she felt the freedom, she hadn't known the weight,"
Pearl doesn't recognize her mom with no "A".
But Chillingworth learns what they plan to do,
So the leech books a ticket on the same ship too.

Dimmesdale delivers his last speech,
The people love it so much, they practically freak.
But then he spots Hester and Pearl,
And he knows he must confess his sins to the world.
Dimmesdale, you see he got-got-got-ta,
Tell the whole town he's the papa.
Then he rips his shirt away, Hulk Hogan,
On his chest is a red "A", I'm not joking.
Was it man-made or a sign from God?
Either way the whole town is in shock and awe.
But before they can get in through their heads,
Dimmesdale falls down dead.
And years later when Hester Prynne dies,
She's buried right by his side, that's no lie.
The two lovers share a solitary grave,
A tombstone marked with a scarlet A.

The symbol of sin, the A on my chest,
I've been punished for love and hated for less.
My girl just wants a dad,
Could it be the one thing that she'll never have? (x4)