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LYRIC SHEET

WILD DOG

She is calling out the names 

of deities

In the evening

Bleeding all over me

In the moonlight

I see

Signs and wonders

torn asunder 

In the book of numbers

And sky high

Thighs, like

Flags flying

Red vines

Prophesying  

And I’m trying, Lord

I’m tryin’ to

Pick up the line

In time

To save thy right 

Hand

From the jaw of the lion 

Sea of Glass

Lake of Fire

Desire

But wait I here in

The mezzanine

Where the seen and unseen

Hear howlin dogs

In the distance

Those Signs and wonders

Thunder

Rumbling in 

the canine mind 

With these 

Wild dogs 

And angry gods

Closing in on me 

For in the untrained breast 

And beast

In the heat of these

The daughter’s wound repeats in 

the mind of the mother

Better Run boy  

Run for cover

Here comes the mad dog and the

Mad man’s thunder 

But I can’t hear it

And you can’t hear 

Tho the warning signs are

Crystal clear

The fang of the adder

The poison tear

—Now here it comes

The severance

The searing

As the tooth runs through

Skin and tendon

Blood on the doorpost

Opposable thumbs

Not half the man

I thought I was

Or maybe its just the

Stars above

The Way it is

The Path we’re on

No right—No wrong?

No howling dog?

And I’m bleeding all over 

The room with you, tonite 

My love

Yes I’m bleeding all over 

The room with you

For by the howling dog

The blood is drawn

I can’t move my hand, mama

I can’t move my tongue

I I I I

Hear wild dogs screaming

At the stars above

I taste the iron will

In the daughter’s love

In the warning bell

And my raging bull

And the coo of doves

In the cooling gut

While she’s calling out to those stars above 

Strange deities in the evening. 

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