A Horse Dies Once That Is a Lie by Rosebud Ben-Oni 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