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Artist: Stephin Merritt
Canonical path: /stephin-merritt/water-torture
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Water Torture
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Water Torture
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lorraine macLean's strange paintings
change the rain-stained maine terrain
paint rain, lorainne
"teasing bees is easy," wheezed louise
"these bees are teased,"
tease these, louise
jill's drill skills instill ill will
a shrill trill fills the hills
drill still, lil jill
jo-jo knows the snow slows
no, no, jo-jo slows the snow
slow snow, jo-jo
lulu glues two blue shoes to tutus
to lose the blues
glue, lulu, glue
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Stephin Merritt performs "Water Torture", and this lyric page sits inside the Stephin Merritt catalog on LyroVerse.
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