From the recording Online Dating Blues
My ex-boyfriend just loves this bar in San Francisco. Calls it his “congregation.” If you confess your sins over a glass, instead of through a confessional screen, are you just as redeemed…?
Lyrics
There is a bar on Geary Street
Where sins confessed are washed away
And I confess that in my youth
I went there sometimes every day
For the weight of one day’s sin
Was more than I could bear
So off I’d go to Geary Street
To find forgiveness there
How I miss those days of youth
When I thought I could be washed clean
Now my trips to Geary Street
Are few and far between
But a wicked life is slow to pass
So here I am again
To lift a glass with you my friends
And be washed clean of sin
(tag) Of all the places to confess
Right here my friends is surely best
[Lyrics by Angus Stocking]