That fickle muse

She will beat me and bruise me

Tease me and taunt me

So I can sing of her darker side

She uses

Blindness and beauty

Lust and mercy

To keep me hooked on the golden line

Woman, you’re just another tool

Your mother never raised you to be so cruel

You’re just at the use of the muse

and she set you loose with the tools

to come and break my lonely heart.

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