Intro
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Verse 1
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A modern concussion 
      C 
The room is on fire 
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You're an upstanding model 
 
of a modern day Cain 
      Dm 
with impeccable style 
 
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But now you've done a little wrong 
        C 
and you need to be forgiven 
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by the vicar and the company you keep 
 
Pre-Chorus
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and then you conjure up a fiction 
        Dm 
to get the pretty girl to listen 
 
Chorus
Am         C 
This is the sin 
       F            Dm                  Am 
That I will confess to release myself 
        C               F 
from consequence 
        Dm 
And everyone can tell 
 
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Verse 2
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The moral objection 
                C 
to something so profane 
        F 
but the deepest of convictions 
 
are the darkest positions 
 
        Dm 
little remissions for the varicose vain 
 
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But now you've done a little wrong 
        C 
and you swear you didn't do it 
        F                              Dm 
but volition left you burdened with a curse 
 
Pre-Chorus
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and then you conjure up a fiction 
        Dm 
to get the pretty girl to listen 
 
Chorus
Am         C 
This is the sin 
       F            Dm                  Am 
That I will confess to release myself 
        C               F 
from consequence 
        Dm 
And everyone can tell 
 
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Chorus
Am         C 
This is the sin 
       F            Dm                  Am 
That I will confess to release myself 
        C               F 
from consequence 
        Dm 
And everyone can tell 
 
Chorus
Am         C 
This is the sin 
       F            Dm                  Am 
That I will confess to release myself 
        C               F 
from consequence 
        Dm 
And everyone can tell 
 
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Outro
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And everyone can tell 
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And everyone can tell 
 
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