Do you think I'm gonna find it in a traveling show
Between the legs of a woman that I hardly know
Deep in a place where the devil is as white as the snow
Or do you think I wouldn't might it if I finally go
And change my life from a ribbon to a marvelous bow

The one to gaze at my insides
Will find me liable for these crimes
Of love I've been forced to hide
For some the strange in life's real fine
For some the strangest of lives is mine
Who's to say what may come about

For when the very thing that caused this woe
Is sometimes better than you know

I try to find the answer as I look up above
For just the chance to figure it out, this love
To never wander through the room forever opens the door
And now I simply wish I was marooned upon a magical shore

The one to gaze at my insides
Will find me liable for these crimes
Of love I've been forced to hide
For some the strange in life's real fine
For some the strangest of lives is mine
Who's to say what may come about

For when the very thing that caused this woe
Is sometimes better than you know

Is sometimes better than you know

Is sometimes better than you know
The waste still makes your garden grow
?? from a ribbon to a marvelous bow
Is sometimes better than you know

The one to gaze at my insides
Will find me liable for these crimes
Of love I've been forced to hide
For some the strange in life's real fine
For some the strangest of lives is mine
Who's to say what may come about

For when the very thing that caused this woe
Is sometimes better than you know
Is sometimes better than you know
Is sometimes better than you know
Is sometimes better than you know




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    this is obviously about repressed homosexuality.

    aniymon January 17, 2011   Link

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