[Verse 1] I lit a thin green candle To make you jealous of me But the room just filled up with mosquitos 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 [Verse 2] I showed my heart to the doctor He said I 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 [Verse 3] 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 [Verse 4] 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 Oh, please let me come into the storm