They live retired, and then
they doze away their times in
drowsinesses and brownstudies.
– Johnson’s Dictionary
She was the love of my lie,
The lie of my love. Oh God,
I can’t think straight anymore.
She was the love of my life!
Convoluted or plum contradictory
Are a lion’s feelings when it confronts
A hippopotamus. Tell me about it!
Oh God, I can’t think straight anymore.
Lies, love, laughter, lucubration,
Laceration, lasciviousness, lachrimosity —
Is that a word? I got news for you, pal,
It is now! I can’t think straight anymore.
Oh God, I can’t think straight anymore.
She was the hippopotamus of my love,
I was the lion in her eyes. She laughed
So hard I thought she would bust a gut!