# Pretentious rock lyrics

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Cecil explained this in 1996. The lyric was “borrowed” from Vernon Green. “The Letter” contained the line, “Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of pizmotality and discuss the puppetutes of love.” Miller misheard “puppetutes” as “pompitous.” (“Puppetute” means “a secret paper-doll fantasy figure who would be my everything and bear my children,” according to Green.)

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