You're so sensitive You can feel a single hair curl while you're sleepin' And each fraction of a millimeter fingernail's growth You show half a heart when you play euchre And I face the punching bag and do what I'm told But you stoop so low To write a word in white pastel on a skull-shaped gauge You say, "I'm not myself without my Challenger commemorative button On the chest of my brown down vest" You say, "Coffee's turned my dark days into Woody Allen anxiety" You say, "Hide in Denver" "I remember Montreal" "I swear I'll write soon" Don't encourage the wind, the candles will retire Don't encourage the wind, the candles will retire The cumulative weight of all my chain letter curses Something about this Is clowns with knives An ambulance siren searching for an injured person That ain't no god, it's just a hedge on fire The cumulative weight of all my chain letter curses Something about this Is clowns with knives An ambulance siren searching for an injured person That ain't no god, it's just a burning bush You're so sensitive You can feel a single hair curl while you're sleepin' And each fraction of a millimeter fingernail's growth Don't encourage the wind, the candles will retire Don't encourage the wind, the candles will retire Don't encourage the wind, the candles will retire Don't encourage the wind, the candles will retire (The cumulative weight of all my chain letter curses) (Something about this is clowns with knives) An ambulance siren searching for an injured person That ain't no god, that ain't no god, that ain't no god, that ain't no-