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Intro

I lit a thin green candle

To make you jealous of me.

The room filled up with mosquitos

 They heard that my body was free

And I took the dust of a long sleepless night

 And I put it in your little shoe

And I must confess that I tortured the dress

 That you wore for the world to look through.

And I showed my heart to the doctor

He said, “You just have to quit”

Then he wrote himself a prescription

And your name was mentioned in it

Then he locked himself in a library shelf

 With the details of our honeymoon

I hear from the nurse that he’s gotten much worse

 And his practice is all in a ruin.

I once knew a saint who had loved you

I studied all night in his school

He taught that the duty of lovers

 Was to tarnish the golden rule.

And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure

 he drowned himself in the pool

 his body is gone, but out here on the lawn

his spirit continues to drool.

An Eskimo showed me a movie

He’d recently taken of you

The poor man could hardly stop shivering

His lips and his fingers were blue

I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes

 And I guess he just never got warm

But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice

 Please let me come into your storm.

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