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under morbid curiosity curiosity killed the cat left the poor dog with nothing to bark at If only two jars of formaldehyde
 or wishing alone kept this thing alive 
it coulda shoulda woulda been
 the long lost love of my life not just parts 
barely holding firm in the scrapbook with every turn i’m keeping less losing more drifting farther and farther from the shore. we flew 2000 miles to find our sorrows at the bottom of stiff piña coladas unbearably happy 
longing for a reason 
happiness felt so terribly fleeting i swam ten meters down 
until the air ran out 
to fetch the heavy conch
 from the shallow sea bed you were already gone 
n the only one left 
was an iguana
 chewing a banana leaf If only all the pleasures of paradise
 or the mystery kept this thing alive
 it coulda shoulda woulda
 been the long lost love of my… why am I such a coward? 
hiding inside the blinding 
lighthouse light it was a lie we couldn’t survive 
i told to disguise
 my heart’s true desire i wasn’t the man you thought 
i was the woman who got caught If only two jars of formaldehyde 
or wishing alone kept this thing alive If only all the pleasures of paradise
 or the mystery kept this thing alive if only i could change your mind
 if only i could keep this long lost love of mine but the truth a woman knows 
that a man does not 
is when it comes 
to affairs of the heart there’s no substitution 
there’s no substitution
 for what we want 
for what we want
 for what we want 
for what we want
 for what we want