Death of a Ladies Man

<br>The man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread<br><br>i never even knew how much I wanted you, she said<br><br>His muscles, they were numbered, and his style was obsolete<br><br>oh bay, I have come too late.<br><br>She knelt beside his feet<br><br><br><br>ill never see a face like yours in years of men to come<br><br>Ill never see such arms again in wrestling or love.<br><br>And all his virtues burning in the smokey holocaust<br><br>She took unto herself most everything her lover lost<br><br><br><br>Now the master of this landscape, he was standing at the view<br><br>With a sparrow of st. francis that he was preaching to<br><br>She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood<br><br>She said, ill make a place between my legs, Ill teach you solitude.<br><br><br><br>He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room<br><br>He promiised her protection for the issue of her womb<br><br>She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon<br><br>She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon<br><br><br><br>She took his much admired oriental frame of mind<br><br>And the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind<br><br>She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine<br><br>this mental space is occupied and everything is mine.<br><br><br><br>He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track<br><br>She said, the art of longings over and its never coming back.<br><br>She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance<br><br>She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache<br><br><br><br>The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get<br><br>A womans education, but hes not a woman yet<br><br>And the last time that I saw her she was living with a boy<br><br>Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy<br><br><br><br>So the great affair is over, but whoever would have guessed<br><br>It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed<br><br>Its like our visit to the moon or to that other star<br><br>I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far