Lyrics

Somewhere in kentucky she went for kicks                 spiked polka-dot mint                         julep grade 1 stakes white-gloved                                 clubhouse how-you-do-sees         until all the horses broke their legs & for all the horses my ex                                 join the seine-et-oise                         thoroughbred liberation front & she                 crashed all the bentleys & it was I who bled         in derby countryside where horses                 die in japanese                         slaughterhouses                                 defrocked                                                 of rose blanket & blue ribbon         & how very they went                 in the kind of darkness knowing                                 only my old                                                 kentucky home no longer a run for the roses it's besieged         with cannibals & thieves                 & only millionaires row sings                      &a hero is a horse without a heart that never aches                 for lovers who cross them                 one too many times                         when we kill one horse all of them die                         waiting                         long after kentucky & she slips white gloves on my hands bent from carrying her on nyc streets jammed the wrong way in every direction         how merry are we                 how merry              how bright-shine beaming no longer weeping              & she bears my head to the heat              & I let it all go              & bet my last hat & home              & how              & how very are we              & it changes everything