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never look her in the eyes
never tell the truth
if she knows your paper
you know she'll have to burn you
never tell the one you want that you do
save it for the deathbed
when you know you kept her wanting you
and do everything she'd never do
fall asleep with stranger's wives
the wild wives of unknown men
good for you, you've just become
just another one of them
never say you miss her
never say a word
and do everything she'd never do
don't let her see your cardinal eyes
don't let her see your cardinal eyes
let her treat you like a criminal
so you can treat her like a priest
girls forgive my human mind
girls forgive me one more time
never tell the one you love that you do
save it for the deathbed
and do everything she'd never do
don't let her see your cardinal eyes
don't let her see your cardinal eyes
jesus christ you have confused me
cornered, wasted, blessed and used me
forgive me girls i am confused
stiff and pissed and lost and loose
jesus christ you have confused me
cornered, wasted, blessed and used me
forgive me girls i am confused
stiff and pissed and lost and loose
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Track duration: 06:18
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If you get to your deathbed, and you've never looked her in the eyes or let her treat you like a criminal or sleep with wives, you will be sad and confused.
However, my take on the rest of the song is a bit different to what most have posted above. I think this is meant to be in his head, not in fact how his lover actually treated him. Suddenly he feels like the weak one, so he has taken it upon himself to go out and sleep with other women almost at random, as a way to win back his power and control over his love life. So:
fall asleep with stranger's wives
the wild wives of unknown men
good for you, you've just become
just another one of them
is about exactly what it says - sleeping with "stranger's wives". But by doing this as an act of retribution against his true love he falls back to being just another typical unfaithful man in her eyes, destroying any value he got from his honesty ("you've just become/just another one of them"). In that context this makes sense:
jesus christ you have confused me
cornered, wasted, blessed and used me
forgive me girls i am confused
stiff and pissed and lost and loose
He's not used to being so vulnerable, and it's left him confused and feeling "cornered, wasted, blessd and used". He's asking the girls he's then gone and slept with to forgive him because in his highly charged emotional stage he's "stiff and pissed and lost and loose" (great line) - i.e. out on the rampage because he is upset by how he feels about his true love.
I've turned my speakers up very high and also tried headphones, but I have not idea what she's saying.