Genius Next Door

Some said the local lake had been enchanted
 Others said it must have been the weather
 The neighbors were trying to keep it quiet
 But I swear that I could hear the laughter
 So they jokingly nicknamed it the porridge
 'Cause overnight that lake had turned as thick as butter
 But the local kids would still go swimming
 Drinking
 Saying that to them it doesn't matter
 If you just hold in your breath
 Till you come back up in full
 Hold in your breath
 Till you thought it through
 You fool
 The genius next door was bussing tables
 Wiping clean the ketchup bottle labels
 Getting high and mumbling German fables
 Didn't care as long as he was able
 To strip his clothes off by the dumpsters
 At night while everyone was sleeping
 And wade midway into that porridge
 Just him and the secret he was keeping
 If you just hold in your breath
 Till you come back up in full
 Hold in your breath
 Till you thought it through
 You foolish child
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 In the morning, the film crews start arriving
 With doughnuts, coffee, and reporters
 The kids were waking up hung over
 The neighbors were starting up their cars
 The garbage men were emptying the dumpsters
 Atheists were praying full of sarcasm
 And the genius next door was sleeping
 Dreaming that the antidote is orgasm
 If you just hold in your breath
 Till you come back up in full
 Hold in your breath
 Till you thought it through
 You foolish child
 Oh
 Oh
 Oh, la, lalalalala
 Oh
 Oh
 Oh, la, lalalalala