just give me a hard time for happiness may slit your wrists and leave you awake and cruel or sorrow will surely break your balls and hand you the golden rule so take it as you like it or hate it until you can kiss me like you mean it my lady wonder thunder dame dancer of lost melodies , visions of the heart dont tell me where they come from or show me when to start cuz you can see i 'm beautiful and you can see i 'm bad tickle me till i 'm elmer fudd or i 'll spank you till your glad for these seasons speckled yellow , silver ribbons in your hair no you 're not as pretty as you once were but darling i do n't care because i 've stopped pretending to be as wise as everyman so just kiss me like you mean it my lady wonder thunder dame and if our children come out laughing that 's no surprise at all or if our parents come out in them , we 'll love them ten feet tall for there are no more lying rhymes left in the whole damned world call it sentimentality killed by science or call it nothing at all still there 's poetry in silence if your life has turned to prayer and if you 've met god in hell , i guess you know him everywhere so touch me one last time before we 're forced to say 'amen ' and kiss me like you love me and then kiss me once again blood on the blade there was blood on this blade of grass and for some reason that made me laugh loudly , now i was free to touch the taste of death the taste of death and greenery yes , my student , but what does it mean to thee ?