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Gone To The Dogs

from Landlocked (album) by David Morrison

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Although I recorded this song earlier on "All Kinds Of Wrong" (with Jeromy Barber), I was never satisfied with the lyrics in the closing chorus: "he is love unless he's evol, depends upon what you're taught. You know a good dog is trained." I so much prefer the closing stanza here that i had to rerecord it.

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Baby you and me have gone to the dogs
All we do is scuffle and snarl
Fighting over scraps that remain
And tangling our tails in the sheets on the bed

You're barking at me; I cower and whimper
Tied to a tree the long, cold winter
Flowers come out; we eat them, of course
And throw them back up

When I think about the way I used to run and play with you
It makes me want to jump that fence
And sniff out something new to chew on

Gone to the dogs
We've gone to the dogs

My fellow Americans we've gone to the dogs
Everybody knows we're barking at logs and garden hoses
Eating too much and dropping a bit too close to the house

We're ill-behaved, yes
The grass is dead
We trampled it down
So much fun to have in the sun
Creatures to kill
And circles to run

In the sky above the King of Dogs is sleeping in a knot
When he wakes up there'll be big trouble
A bad dog always gets caught
You'd better grovel

Gone to the dogs
We've gone to the dogs

Gone to the dogs
We were always dogs

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from Landlocked (album), released June 12, 2011
Words and music © David Morrison 2006 BMI

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David Morrison Wimberley, Texas

Singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer. Occasional guest vocalist w/The Rudy Schwartz Project, Farrago Ensemble, The Able Sea & others. Has played hundreds of solo & band shows & been
featured on Church of the Subgenius show. Coproduced the Glimmer Blinkken's Golden Days & mixed the Mustn'ts EP. Currently w/the Lemon Settlement & the Swangles. Runs Rat Palace Recording. ... more

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