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 remissions 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 To get the pretty girls to listen
This is the sin That I will confess to release myself From consequence And everyone can tell
This is the sin That I will confess to release myself From consequence And everyone can tell This is the sin That I will confess to release myself From consequence And everyone can tell And everyone can tell And everyone can tell