Auntie Toothache-Stephin Merritt

[ti:Auntie Toothache] [ar:Stephin Merritt] [al:Showtunes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Auntie Toothache - Stephin Merritt [00:01.30]Isn't it strange said the inkwell [00:06.11]All that comes out of me [00:08.97] [00:10.55]The famous lines the valentines And sometimes [00:19.90]Just think without an inkwell where [00:25.40]Would the poet be [00:27.33]I'll make you change your mind [00:30.89]Said the pen plucked from the tail [00:34.29]Of a bird [00:37.08]Those famous lines those valentines [00:41.75]I wrote them every word [00:46.29]Without a pen never again would [00:51.30]Poetry be heard [00:54.94] [01:10.54]Forget the inkwell and the pen [01:12.56]When auntie toothache comes again [01:14.49]The poet saddest of all men [01:15.95]Can sing no more [01:18.28]When auntie toothache starts her torture [01:20.19]With her pliers and her lance and her fires [01:22.90]She desires him to dance [01:25.58]And so they dance dance dance dance [01:28.29]Dance dance dance [01:31.70] [01:35.60]And auntie toothache wields her tongs [01:37.64]And makes her poet sing her songs [01:39.55]In screams and whimpers till he longs [01:41.16]To die right now [01:43.37]Then auntie toothache makes him vow [01:44.68](with one more cup of fire ants) [01:47.02]That he'll give up poetry and take up dance [01:49.84] [01:50.57]And so they dance dance dance dance [01:53.20]Dance dance dance [01:55.49] [02:00.31]He never writes another line [02:02.28]His life becomes a valentine [02:03.69]To auntie toothache and her fine [02:05.70]Degress of pain [02:08.20]From lack of sleep he goes insane [02:09.69]And fancies he's the king of france [02:11.44]Beset by bees [02:12.72]Auntie toothache whispers dance [02:15.42]And so they dance dance dance dance [02:17.70]Dance dance dance [02:19.45]And they dance dance dance dance [02:21.02]Dance dance dance