Democracy
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a threa
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete
"O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to com
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaus
She took unto herself most everything her lover los
Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the vie
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching t
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious moo
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs
I'll show you solitude."
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored roo
He promised her protection for the issue of her wom
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoo
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moo
She took his much admired oriental frame of min
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behin
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine -
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway trac
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance
she mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache
The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to ge
a woman's education but he's not a woman ye
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some bo
who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guesse
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpresse
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other sta
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other sta
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other sta
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
