Ouroboros
 - Phillip Mills, December 2006
TTTO: Hallelujah, (Leonard Cohen)

Now I know there is a common song
That gets in your head and it stays too long
Until its scansion burrows deep into you
Then every thought and word conveyed
Comes in the pattern, I'm afraid,
Of Leonard Cohen's tune called Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Tonight you started to feed the cat
(And there is nothing wrong with that)
But as you grabbed the kibble something threw you
The kitty cried to get its chow
And though, as always, it said, "Merrrowww"
You swear it scanned to Cohen's Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say you'll find some other tune
Where all line endings rhyme with 'June'
If it replaces this one, that will do you.
But I think no other song will win
And if it did, 'twould be a sin
To also find its lines fit Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There isn't much that we can do
If we would have this song be through
I think, in truth, it's stymied gods before us
Thor's hammer rang on his own head
He swore he'd rather he was dead
Than once more hear the songworm Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros, Ouroboros
Ouroboros