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  I lit a thin green candle

  to make you jealous of me

  but the room just filled up with mosquitoes

  they heard that my body was free.

  Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night

  and I put it in your little shoe

  and then I confess that I tortured the dress

  that you wore for the world to look through.

  I showed my heart to the doctor

  he said I'd just have to quit

  then he wrote himself a perscription

  and your name was mentioned in it.

  Then he locked himself in a library shelf

  with the details of our honeymoon

  and I hear from the nurse

  that he's gotten much worse

  and his practice is all in a ruin.

  I heard of a saint who had loved you

  So I studied all night in his school

  he taught that the duty of lovers

  is 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 back 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

  o, please let me come into the storm.