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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of methe room filled up with mosquitoesthey heard that my body was freeand I took the dust of a long sleepless nightand I put it in your little shoeand I must confess that I tortured the dressthat you wore for the world to look throughand I showed my heart to the doctorhe said, 'you just have to quit'then he wrote himself a prescriptionand your name was mentioned in itthen he locked himself in a library shelfwith the details of our honeymoonand I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worseand his practice is all in a ruinI once knew a saint who had loved youI studied all night in his schoolhe taught that the duty of loverswas to tarnish the golden ruleand just when I was sure that his teachings were purehe drowned himself in the poolSongtextehis body is gone, but out here on the lawnhis spirit continues to droolan Eskimo showed me a moviehe'd recently taken of youthe poor man could hardly stop shiveringhis lips and his fingers were blueI suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothesand I guess he just never got warmbut you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of iceplease let me come into your storm Aus Songtexte Mania