H.L. Mencken - Joy Wants Eternity Lyrics


She is twice my age and still beautiful

She has had three double martinis

I tell her that independence is a state of mind and I laugh at myself

I have had three double martinis

... the first debt I have paid myself in my entire life

How ill prepared we are for the ... we take, she says

... pours herself another drink

Last night I ... for the first time in thirty years

I was hoping ... might increase ...

...

That's the church

... smokes cigarettes

... I think of Dostoyevsky

I calculate that ... 32 shots ...

... should not have another drink

I pour myself another drink

... sounds of an english wedding which

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