When we fight and I wanna talk it out
  You won't say nothing, nothing at all
  You just sit there, you won't open that pretty mouth
  I think you like keeping my back up against the wall
  Wages of sin, you keep me paying
  Wages of sin for wrongs that I've done
  Wages of sin, you keep me paying
  Wages of sin, one by one
    I walk in the apartment, there's clothes thrown all over the place
  You're crouched in the corner with makeup running down your face
  I don't wanna believe what my heart keeps saying
  You keep me on the line so you can keep me paying
  Wages of sin, we keep paying
  Wages of sin for the wrongs that we've done
  Wages of sin, we keep paying
  Wages of sin, that's how we have our fun
    I remember when I was a little boy out where the cottonwoods grow tall
  Trying to make it home through the forest before the darkness falls
  Baby all the sounds I heard, even if they weren't real
  I was running down that broken path with the devil snapping at my heels
  I tried so hard, so hard in every way
  Swore someday I'd grow up, just throw it all away
  Cried all the tears, baby, that I could cry
  Stomached all my fears 'til they came rushin' up inside
  darlin' I'm losin' and it's a mean game
  Still I play on just the same
  Wages of sin, I keep paying
  Wages of sin for some wrong that I've done
  Wages of sin, well I keep paying
  Wages of sin, one by one