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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,
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 prescription
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.
Перевод
Я зажгла тонкую зеленую свечу
Чтобы заставить вас завидовать мне,
Но комната просто наполнилась комарами
Они услышали, что мое тело свободно
Затем я взял пыль долгая бессонная ночь
И я положила его в твою туфельку,
Тогда признаюсь, что я замучила платье
То, что ты носила, чтобы мир мог видеть.
Я показала свое сердце доктор
Он сказал, что мне просто придется бросить курить
Затем он выписал себе рецепт
И в нем было упомянуто твое имя
Затем он заперся на библиотечной полке
С подробности нашего медового месяца
и я слышу от медсестры, что ему стало намного хуже
и его практика вся в руинах.
Я слышала о святом, который любил тебя
Так что я учился всю ночь в своей школе
Он учил, что обязанность влюбленных
Запятнать золотое правило,
И как раз тогда, когда я убедился, что его учение чистое
Он утопился в бассейне,
Его тела больше нет, но он снова здесь, на лужайке
Его дух продолжает пускать слюни.
Эскимос показал мне фильм
Он недавно забрал тебя
Бедный мужчина едва мог удержаться от дрожи
Его губы и пальцы были синими
Полагаю, он замерз, когда ветер унес твою одежду
И я думаю, он просто никогда не согревался
Но ты стоишь там так мило в твоей ледяной метели
О, пожалуйста, позволь мне войти в бурю.
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