Lynn Levin - Please Understand lyrics

I love to say your name, it's like candy in my mouth. I love to say your name, it's like saltwater taffy. When I steal a look at your eyes it's like I'm shoplifting in a j**elry store, and my heart's arrested when you catch me. What an old fool I am. You are my student, raw and strange, a genius monster with long dark hair, a baseball cap, and flip-flop sandals. Though it burns my lips like chili lipstick and licks with vodka flame bitter, hot and arctic, I love to say your name. Should our two storms combine we'd be like his and hurricanes, we'd plow acres of disaster and after would arrive a peculiar kind of fame, a dog that through the ruins yaps and sniffs and wags its tail excited by the shame. I have nightmares of us on the quad. Outside of cla** what would we talk about - your mom and dad, your iPod? And suppose you had a special girl? How terrible for me to learn you were not miserable. Still, it's a gift to know impossible love. Think of Petrarch and how he pined for Laura. I, too, sing of amorous suffering. But because I sing of you it's not for nothing.