In every moon there is a man And in every man there is a heart inside of which lives a woman Who doesn't clean Who doesn't cook Who doesn't serve him Only lives within the walls of his heart And within every woman living in a man's heart There is a desire to be free It is not odd to imagine her leaving Merely odd to see her go Riding on the back of an elephant In high heels With a bottle of Chateau de Michelle And weilding the sword of a swallowing minstrel Drunkenly yelling songs of a time in which she never lived And that will never leave a man Whether the next woman comes in riding a golden chariot pulled by blazing reindeer Or mounted on a shark wearing a cocktail dress And while he laments her going She regrets her ever having left So she turns around Looks into the vast nothing behind her Trampled under the weight of the elephant Cut down by her drunken fit of rage Burned and eaten by the coming and going of others And she sees That beyond the husk of the home she once knew Lay merely arteries and valves And no soft place to lay her head So she dismounts her companion Lays down her sword Crashes the bottle upon the rocks Tears the heels from her shoes And limps into the desert Looking for that which she had already found While he lie Filling the emptiness of his ravaged heart With the tender touch of fleeting acrobats
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