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I lit a thin green candle
D D A A
to make you jealous of me
A A Bm Bm
but the room just filled up with mosquitoes
D D E E
they heard that my body was free.
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Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
D D A A
and I put it in your little shoe
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and then I confess that I tortured the dress
Bm A G G
that you wore for the world to look through.
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A A Bm Bm
I showed my heart to the doctor
D D A A
he said I'd just have to quit
A A Bm Bm
then he wrote himself a perscription
D D E E
and your name was mentioned in it.
F#m F#m C#m C#m
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
D D A A
with the details of our honeymoon
Bm Bm
and I hear from the nurse
G G
that he's gotten much worse
Bm A G G
and his practice is all in a ruin.
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A A Bm Bm
I heard of a saint who had loved you
D D A A
So I studied all night in his school
A A Bm Bm he taught that the duty of lovers D D E E is to tarnish the golden rule. F#m F#m And just when I was sure C#m C#m that his teachings were pure D D A A he drowned himself in the pool Bm Bm G G his body is gone but back here on the lawn Bm A G G his spirit continues to drool. A A A A A A Bm Bm An Eskimo showed me a movie D D A A he'd recently taken of you A A Bm Bm the poor man could hardly stop shivering, D D E E his lips and his fingers were blue. F#m F#m I suppose that he froze C#m C#m when the wind took your clothes D D A and I guess he just never got warm Bm Bm G G but you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice Bm A G G o, please let me come into the storm.