With your soul so bent under a crown   Do you even have one real friend around   With your ears beneath the mess you're in   You tell yourself it's worth it just for Anne Boleyn   You took the reins of such a royal thirst   But you swore you'd be a husband first      Oh, you come beating on your chest   Singing sweet self-righteousness   When we both know it isn't true   Now you're asking for my name   Oh Henry, what a shame   I just can't say the words you want me to      So you brought me here to justify   Going left when the road turns right   When you know the rules, you've seen the proof   Way before you saw her bathing on the roof   Now your reasons don't stand up so tough   When the truth is you don't love your wife enough      Oh, you come beating on your chest   Singing sweet self-righteousness   When we both know it isn't true   Now you're asking for my name   Oh Henry, what a shame   I just can't say the words you want me to      I wish you could   I wish you could   I wish you could tell when you lie to yourself   I wish you could   I wish you could   I wish you could see what I'm seeing so well   I wish you could   I wish you could   I wish you could tell when you lie to yourself   I wish you could   I wish you could   I wish you could see what I'm seeing so well      It's not okay   It's not okay   It's not okay      You pay a choir to sing your innocents   They come with volume not river   And our words may sound like civil war   But i swear I've never loved you more      Oh, you come beating on your chest   Singing sweet self-righteousness   When we both know it isn't true   Now you're asking for my name   Oh Henry, what a shame   I just can't say the words you want me to