A modern concussion The room is on fire You're an upstanding model Of a modern day Cain With impeccable style So now you've done a little wrong And you need to be forgiven By the vicar and the company you keep And then you conjure up a fiction To get the pretty girl to listen This is, the sin, that I Will confess to release myself From consequence And everyone can tell The moral objections To something so profane Oh, but the deepest of convictions Are the darkest positions Little conditions for the varicose vain So now you've done a little wrong And you swear you didn't do it But volition left you burdened with a curse And then you conjure up a fiction, yeah To get the pretty, pretty, pretty This is, the sin, that I Will confess to release myself From consequence And everyone can tell (Everyone can tell) This is, the sin, that I Will confess to release myself From consequence This is, the sin, that I Will confess to release myself From consequence And everyone can tell And everyone can tell, yeah And everyone can tell And everyone can tell