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Thread #20073 Message #207911
Posted By: GUEST,Jim Dixon
06-Apr-00 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: Humorous songs
Subject: Lyr Add: THE DOG OF TIME (Peter & Lou Berryman)^^
THE DOG OF TIME
(@1994 L&P Berryman. Words by Peter, music by Lou.)
The dog of time is growling now and leans upon my chest.
He whines and howls and paws my face and chews my paisley vest.
He barks to wake the dog of death asleep upon the sill,
Who hasn't barked an answer yet but soon someday he will.
And then the dog of night arrives with all his friends, it seems,
The dog of peace in limbo and the dog of broken dreams.
And from behind the La-Z-Boy the dog of all regret
Appears beside the drowsy dog of overwhelming debt.
The Doberman of entropy is drooling in the gloom,
And, slinking through the vestibule, the Wiener Dog of doom.
The Labrador of loneliness is looking doubly bleak.
The Poodle of depression licks the Pekinese of pique.
The Newfoundland of nihilism paces in the hall.
The Setter of procrastination leans against a wall.
The Terrier of terror and the Rottweiler of rot
Grow skittish while the mutt of life is shedding on the cot.
The St. Bernard belligerence is trembling in a chair.
The Corgi of confusion smells the tension in the air.
The mangy Chow of gluttony is hungry for a fight.
The Pit Bull of apocalypse is howling in the night.
By hook or crook I get 'em all to settle down a spell.
They aren't all asleep but they're unwinding, I can tell.
I need to settle down myself and think I have a chance,
When through the open window jumps the kitty of romance.
@humor @dog @aging JTD
^^ Hey, everybody, look what a great job Jim did of formatting these songs for the Digital Tradition. Thank you very much, Jim!
-Joe Harvester-