Circus Contraption - Mendel the Magnificent lyrics

Oh my love, my sweet love How your kiss lingers strange on my lips The faint stench of hay Remnants of clay That rash on your head Peanuts in bed It strikes me all so very clearly I sense there is something, a miss I was in love, Mendel the Magnificent He was the circus's resident knife thrower Strong man and large mammal care taker Big, handsome, not too bright Oh, he was perfect I loved the thrill of being strapped to his target Knives piercing the wood all around me The intensity of his concentration Boreing right into me On stage we were naturals, daring and delicate Daggers and velvet, a breathtaking sight With tragedy always just inches away Our love guided blades hit just right Then one day i noticed a hint of indifference in Mendel He stopped throwing his knives as close into me as usual And a woman can notice the details, you know? He was lingering late at the large mammal tent every night I knew he had found another That greasy, lying ba*tard! Why would he do it? Why would he throw away our love? Our life? Our act? How could he have possibly found somebody more appealing than me? How careless, ungrateful and dumb could he be To destroy what we had for some tryst in a tent The was no one in town half as charming as me So I followed him to see where he went As I snuck behind the flapping canvas The sight i saw was cause for alarm Mendel in an elephant's arms Suddenly it all made sense The stench, the peanuts How he wouldn't shut up about what a great specimen she was Always giving her extra hay I remember the way she looked at him when he hosed her down Balancing on the stool just right, swinging her tail at him in that way Oh, I should have known It was all just so bestial and humiliating A woman's scorn is one thing But losing out to a saggy, rough skinned, overweight Forty pounds of dung a day, subjugated zoo species The geometry staggering How does he manage? He's hung like a horse but not elephant size He must need a**istance to cover the distance Does he crawl in and rub on the sides? You can never mend a heart so trampled There's nothing left for me to do His affair will be through! Oh my love, my sweet love How your kiss lingers strange on my lips