Like Ashoka's Inferno of Memory

The music stopped and I awoke

I can laugh at myself if I get the joke

Somebody's paying attention and not coping well with all the concrete, ooh

He ruined you without a single intelligent word

Sometimes, you get the punishment somebody else deserved

But a man must have his conquest to keep his spirits high, and I...

And I...

And I heard you whimpering from behind the red curtain

I just rolled my eyes and went back to my book

I realize that if ever there was something alive in you

Something I could love, that thing must now be dead

I asked if I can come visit her in her living grave

The place where she and her circumstantial husband stay

To whisk her away or at least shake things up

But who am I to break up an unhappy home?

And you said you wanted to murder your rabid heart

Well you mustn't, it's a part of you that I love the best

You must keep it safe, let it stay wild, let it stay free

It's what makes you special, so much better than me

I sent you missives from the Carriage Inn

And you started killing our story before it could even begin

Mourning us almost keeps you alive

But in the wasteland of my memory, I know that you'll never survive

She recited O'Hara's "Having a Coke With You"

While my friends were at a bar outside of Lido

Smoking hash, talking anti-American trash

I want your to be your Carl Solomon not something you fear

I kissed you darkly on the South Street Seaport pier

She's the daughter of the owl, I'm the fox's brother

Why's it so hard for us to say nice things to each other?

I know she feels for me, I know she does what she can

But still I'm out in New York City given the other man

I don't wanna make things messy he's someone I respect

It's an evil situation but I guess I deserve it

I guess it is karmically correct

Oh no, oh my!

Ooh!

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Ooh!

Oh no!, oh my!

Oh no!