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Intro

I've been trying to quantify

All of the wrong that one can pack into a lie

And I've been trying to put on a scale

Just how bad all of that wrong should make me feel

 'Cos they told me once when I was young

 That liars are as liars do

 And if you do, it's off to Hell with you

No smiling, kid, I speak the truth

 But I've a sneaking feeling they were liars too

 So logically, then, we're all hypocrites

 But does it make it better or make it worse to be aware of it?

I'm convincing myself that it's all relative

 And if there's a God, when He forgives, I think He must consider it

 I've been noticing confusion in the laws he made

 The nature of the truth and where it bends and where it breaks

 And where I twisted it to my benefit

 When this man said he was in love with me

 And I thought that he was dumb to be

 So I pretended that I was asleep

 Called it free will what he willed to believe

 And it ended, so I guess it's just as well

 But that's why sometimes I think I might go to Hell

 And I worry too, how I never mentioned to you

 How I drove your car while you were gone

 A mile with the parking brake still on

 'Cos it seems to me, you wait too long

 You may as well have not meant well all along

 So I'm hoping hard if it's the thought that counts

 That you don't ever have to know what I think about

And that every soul can always fit thought Heaven's door

 With the weight of things it never told anyone before.