THE BAD MAN, WITH SECRETS, AND HIS SEX EYES: don’t love me ever

THE NERVOUS WOMAN WHO’S LEARNING A LOT: but I have to

THE BAD MAN, WITH SECRETS, AND HIS SEX EYES: you can’t do it, I’m the bad man
with the sex reasons, from before
i set Norway on fire once

THE LEARNING WOMAN: which part

THE BAD MAN: ooh all of it
before I met you I put women in cellars, boxes, night caves, kick them, hide them anyplace
now I don’t do that anymore

THE LEARNING WOMAN: because you were so bad to other women you will be especially good to this woman, me

THE BAD MAN: i don’t understand

THE LEARNING WOMAN: how much you couldn’t love before means how much you can love me now

THE BAD MAN: I’ll set you on fire like Norway
I’ve got a neck full of lying and secrets and disappointment and my eyes are full of tears and dead women, I’ve got cravats of wrongdoing and I wear them

THE LEARNING WOMAN: I will untie your cravats and your secrets

THE BAD MAN: don’t try to understand me

THE LEARNING WOMAN: I think I can understand you

THE BAD MAN: just whatever you do don’t come inside my house

THE LEARNING WOMAN: I feel strangely drawn to your house, can I come inside it and put my fingerprints all over your heart

THE BAD MAN: don’t try to learn my secrets

THE LEARNING WOMAN: what are your secrets, tell me all of them

THE BAD MAN: I’m full of bad things, but somehow I’ll be good for you

THE LEARNING WOMAN: you murdered other people but not me, that’s what love is