The narrator first admits to hearing death watches in the wall after startling the old man from his sleep.

The song is an uptempo, in which the narrator finally admits that he misses his ex-lover.

Even true love, the narrator admits, can "fade away like morning dew".

"I was slow to notice details I might have caught earlier," the narrator admits about his Swedish fellow band members.

Indeed, a little later on, the narrator admits that "every time Ron looks over his shoulder at a book he's written, he finds it's turned into a novel."

This compulsion is one the narrator admits without understanding his motives.

These attempts were unsuccessful after the narrator admits that he just saw the running figures in the bushes.

A female narrator now admits that the house hippo wasn't real and that media literacy is important as well as asking questions.

This idea is voiced in text 4, where the narrator admits stories are not required any more:

The song's narrator admits that he witnessed a woman being tossed in the water to drown.