I didn't listen to the lyrics. Was just focussed on the visual. I thought the song was about jacking off and you were his object of desire...since la petite mort means MASTURBATION in French.
*language nerd alert...actually, it should be Le Petit Mort. Gotta mind them masc/femme nouns.
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"What I do know is that if Karen Carpenter and Mama Cass Elliot had shared that sandwich they'd both be alive today." -Michael K