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He Came In Through the Bedroom Window

She took the midnight train out of Neverland

Straight into the morning light

She kicked off her heels at the platform

Wearing the stains on her dress with pride

 

She said "You were just a little lost boy...

I never asked you to fall for me

And Jesus may have died for all your sins

But only Luke bothered to save the thief"

 

We made love in the dead of winter

I touched her like a rosary

When spring came she licked the fat off my ribs

Pieces of apple stuck in her teeth

 

She said "Dust I came from and dust I will go to

And I will go in vain

'Cos the only thing I gave back to God

Was Abel and Cain"

 

My dear, why are you so smitten with the idea

That the wax that sticks your bones together

Don't whither away with the wick

 

She disappeared after that party on the beach

I thought she just ran off with some rich man

But two weeks later her body washed up on the shore

And I can still see her footprints danced into the sand

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Nov 29, 2012
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