My family’s always been dog people: labs and retrievers
pit bulls and mutts with no fucks demeanors
Growl like truck speakers, subwoofer to seek
Companionship, understanding it’s something deeper
Dogs: the definition of loyal and eager
who love unconditionally
…even when love should maybe have a couple conditions at least
Like, come home from doin’ dirt and look who’s grinnin’ at me, good dog, right?
...that’s the nature of obedience
It doesn’t have to be right, as long as it’s immediate
We’re dog people; sit, stay, avoid the truth
Talk about loyalty but never what we’re loyal to
We’re dog people even when we’re starin’ down apocalypse
You can’t teach an old dog new politics
Yeah we’re dog people, so much talk about honor
You could almost forget about the collar

my bark, my jagged speech
my life, my love, my leash
One bite is all they need
To put me down
my bark, my jagged speech
my life, my love, my leash
One bite is all they need
To put me down

I’ve seen anger like a loaded shotgun, a weapon
Just pointed in the wrong direction
Yeah we’re dog people: Chasing our own tails
Look at who we blame when we fail:
Scapegoats and bogeymen, always on the outside lookin’ in
And mad about the taste of the soup that we’ve been cookin’ in
but never mad at the cook,
That man is a crook, who’s rich off the labor and the land that he took
‘Cause look feminists didn’t close the factory
that family on foodstamps didn’t eat your lunch
Immigrants never offshored opportunity
The pc police never shot anyone (so who’s your real enemy?)
...and still we howl at that moon
Whimper in a kennel hopin’ our master is back soon
With that choke chain, shock collar love ‘til we break
‘Til he’s trained us to hate everything that he hates, It’s a scam

my bark, my jagged speech
my life, my love, my leash
One bite is all they need
To put me down
(how much profit is in your pain?) Put me down
(who really benefits from your hate?) So put me down
(Trained to fight until you’re dead) Put me down
(that owner makes a fortune, and you get a pat on the head) Put me down