Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

Come on Petunia, you thought in your head
it would all be so easy if you could be led
to the cave where I'd hide you in linens and frames
and in new combinations I've made of our names
it's a tiny hole, yeah, but you'd fit
if I sliced you up real itty bitty
I'd sliver and splice you and then you'd be many
and I'd be the one who was privy to love you
and show you the fun

Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

Jamie, he stood on the stoop
and he challenged his homies
to go get some girlfriends
and locate their yonis
the waters are parting and time's getting heated
the boys needed friendship
their beat needed meated (uh uh)
her dress was a ship at sail (uh)
her knees were the water pail
this was survival and she was the kit
you could die of thirst if the girls won't give you sips

Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

I resolve to call her up
a thousand times a day
I thought I'd ask her if she'd marry me
in some old fashioned way
Well, but, my silent fears were cysted
and before I reached the phone
like before my tongue has twisted why must I always be alone

Mmm
You're all Jenny and Lyndsay and fine
and I'm underwater, I'm shedding my mind
and I'm pretty sure, baby, if you'd hold my head
I could live like I've wished for and undo my dread
cause I see candygrams up in the ceiling tiles
witty postcards sent off from the Sandwich Isles
and these towns where vacations will lead us
I'll hold out my treasures and their welfare feed us
but oh she does what she wishes
and, no, she won't be your misses
the kingdom, it widens and there they're alone with all that love and the void on the throne

Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on



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    I have some corrections.

    It's "if I sliced you up WEE itty bitty" "Jamie stood on his stoop" "the beat needed meeted" "my silent fears persisted" "witty postcards sent off from the sandwich isles" "I'll hold out my treasures and their wealth will feed us" "Your kingdom it widens and you're there alone with all that love, and the void on your throne"

    proposalson December 18, 2005   Link

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