Anaïs Mitchell - The Belly and the Beast lyrics

I in my longing lie out in the night Unveiled and irreverently dressed I'm lip-stuck and liquored up Picking a fight I'm the wicked wicked witch of the west Over the alley ways, backward and blind And the sad and insatiable sprawl Over the market place darkly defined His desert is sounding a call He was a businessman twenty five years When the angel appeared with his orders I am making you mine, my divine volunteer And I'm flying you over the border And he can't recall where it all fell apart Was it north of Medina or south Where the prophecy ends and the politics start Where the weapon went into his mouth And everyone's sleeping And he's flying Out And no one can keep him Down Now The morning delivers the news to my door Of my president's war in the east And he doesn't tell me and I don't know Who's in the belly and who is the beast When there's no place to run to When there's no place to hide It won't matter whose side you are on Like a bomb in the basement We couldn't stop if we tried And it won't be long It won't be long It won't be long