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Artist: The Handsome Family
Canonical path: /the-handsome-family/a-beautiful-thing
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A Beautiful Thing
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A Beautiful Thing
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Don't you remember that snowy December
When we went to see Singing In The Rain?
I shouldn't have smuggled in that bottle of gin
'Cause after the film I could barely walk
But darling, don't you know
It's only human to want to kill
A beautiful thing?
When I was seven, summer lasted forever
I used to chase fireflies through the woods
Tidy green lights circling warm August nights
I'd catch them inside a washed-out old jar
I dreamed of the stars
With a jar by my bed
But each morning
My pretty bugs were dead
Oh, darling, don't you see
It's only human to want to kill
A beautiful thing?
We should have been dancing like lovers in a movie
But I fell and cut my head in the snow
I wanted to tell you all the ways that I loved you
But instead I got sick on the train
But darling, don't you know
It's only human to want to kill
A beautiful thing?
But darling, can't you see
It's only human to want to kill
A beautiful thing?
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