A Beautiful Thing - The Handsome Family

Don’t you remember that snowy December

When we went to see Singing In The Rain?

I shouldn’t have smuggled in that bottle of gin

'Cause after the film I could barely walk

But darling, don’t you know

It’s only human to want to kill

A beautiful thing?

When I was seven, summer lasted forever

I used to chase fireflies through the woods

Tidy green lights circling warm August nights

I’d catch them inside a washed-out old jar

I dreamed of the stars

With a jar by my bed

But each morning

My pretty bugs were dead

Oh, darling, don’t you see

It’s only human to want to kill

A beautiful thing?

We should have been dancing like lovers in a movie

But I fell and cut my head in the snow

I wanted to tell you all the ways that I loved you

But instead I got sick on the train

But darling, don’t you know

It’s only human to want to kill

A beautiful thing?

But darling, can’t you see

It’s only human to want to kill

A beautiful thing?