She sat on the pavement
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As I pulled in the drive
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Wearing leopard skin velvet
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And shiny black eyes
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"She looks like a sleeper"
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Said my wife at the time
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She had curls like Delilah
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And a smile like the sun
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She held my poor corpse
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Like she'd never be done
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And the caption in my mind said
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"This is the one"
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But I'm strong and I'm disciplined
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And I avoided her for years
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'Till one night, as usual
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With my heart full of tears
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A hand touched my back
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And she was standing right there
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Then I felt the luxury of her
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I felt the luxury of her
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I felt the luxury of her
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I felt the luxury
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Whispering
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Whispering
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Now I'll try hard to tell things just like they is
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How my life was a desert before she came in
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And wrecked it and ripped it and rubbed my nerves thin
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How I liked to see her little feet pad around the house
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The way she curled up quietly on the couch
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I can still see her in my mind that way now
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Aah I felt the luxury of her
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I felt the luxury of her
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I felt the luxury of her
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Well time went by quickly
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And her confidence grew
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And she wanted this and that
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And she wanted those too
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And she wouldn't shut up
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And one day I just blew up
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Now she's in the hospital
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For the second time
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Maybe she'll die
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Maybe I'll cry
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Therapists would say
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"You're in denial"
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But love became inconvenient
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Love became a literal drag
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Very bad for business
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I'd be better off a fag
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She's a model de sport
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That I can't afford
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'Cause I'm a practical American
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From the Middle-West
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And I can piss on a grave
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While welcoming guests
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If cold's what I am
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I'm cold 'till the end
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And I felt the luxury of her
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I felt the luxury of her
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Now I'm gonna continue walking
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In the modern world
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Which justifies every egotistical perversion
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With scientific talk
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And new ways to walk
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But I'll remember the religion
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She became to me
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And the other person I could have been
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So for now I'll say so long
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I gotta go do wrong
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I gotta go do wrong
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I felt the luxury
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I felt the luxury
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I felt the luxury
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Aah, Luxury
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I Felt The Luxury
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| Iggy Pop |
