written by Leonard Cohen
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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me
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But the room just filled up with mosquitos, they heard that my body was free
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Then I took the dust from a long and a sleepless night and I, I put it in your little shoe
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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 just have to quit
Then he wrote himself a prescription, your name was mentioned in it
Then he locked himself into a library shelf with all of the details of our shabby honeymoon
And I hear from his nurse that he's gotten much worse and his practice has fallen into a ruin
Yeah I heard of a saint who had loved you, yeah I studied all night in his school
He taught that the duty of lovers is to tarnish the, the golden rule
And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure he went and drowned himself in the pool
His body is gone, yeah but back here on the lawn his spirit continues to drool
An Eskimo showed me that movie he'd recently taken of you
Why, the poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue
I suppose he froze when the wind tore off your clothes and I guess he just never got warm
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice, oh please let me come into the storm
I suppose he froze when the wind tore off your clothes and I guess he just never got warm
But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice, oh please let me come into the storm