Hello, hello, hello, to the girl with eight inch fingers. Codeine eyes swollen like hives and stingers. This is our first caress and I must confess you look slightly marionette-esque. The way you walk out of order. The way you talk out of tune. Marooned on Piano Island. Population of two, population me and you. I met a girl with eight inch fingers. She clothed herself in pineapple skin. She tempted me with forbidden pleasure� now I'll live on Piano Island forever. She's a tropical beauty.



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    this is one of the songs from the "piano island" epilogue. The "girl with eight inch fingers" is his wife and the piano island that she's lead him to where beautiful music is supposed to play all the time and everything supposed to be very peaceful serene and quiet is actually a family, a wife, a job, and all the things the man on piano island wanted to avoid. shes, in reality, a tropical beauty, but having done this to him he sees her as nothing more than a gruesome deformity he wants to be rid of but, as he sai before, hes stuck on that island forever... without a prayer.

    favorstotheweston December 12, 2006   Link

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