This Is For You a Certain Woman Once Said

This is for you a certain woman once said                                                                                           To a certain man                                                                                                                             It's called a chambered nautilus                                                                                                           Looks like a sea shell to me the man said                                                                                      The woman laughed at the man and then with him                                                                      And later that day they made love while it rained                                                                              The man uses the chambered nautilus as a paper weight now                                                     And Because she said it's chambers were symbolic                                                                            Of the lives they'd lived before
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