Mike Keneally: Dog Lyrics

LOUIE

You're not Jesus or Popeye the Sailor
You are Louie, an eminently capable purveyor of flava
Ostracized since the day you were tardy
Mesmerized by the tight, eternal freeze-frame of Herschel Bernardi

Rave on, son.
Louie!

Placed your faith in a bucket of danger
Graduated semi-Summa Cum Laude, mama, tried as a traitor.
Now your home and your culture have failed ya
Centerzone X: you were hard and qualified for light bacchanalia

Dream away...because?
'Cause any gasp could be the last.
Love is here. Did you notice? Now's the time.

I tell myself to say these things out loud but nothing's coming out.
I can't believe what's going on. How can people act this way?

(Our strength insults the world and everything beyond.
Karma careens, returns. Don't have to like the taste.
Excuse us, we'll go home. Stop poisoning the pond.
And learn what we've become before we show our face again.)

Hey, Don!

Train S. Train is a-comin' up slowly
Can your brain, your Louie brain, uh, take a ride?
(I think there's also a pony)
Louie finds it's getting harder to get off
He reminds himself to stop himself
Forget himself
He's screaming his head off

Louie!

Corporate dreams
International favors
Special bee-stings and enigmatic powermaidens eager to date ya

BOBER

Oh no!
You're trapped inside the ice!
Howja, howja, howja -
- why you trapped inside the ice?

The dog's kicked back, he's got a bottle inside.

Suddenly, you didn't recognize yourself.
Now can you understand what we've been saying?

Yep! OK! Enough of the past!
I'd like to introduce you to my paddle-dog, Bober.
Half-named after Conrad Bain's brother, Bober's got some things
he'd like to say to you.
Fiddling with purpose, he's collected up a startling array of
glistening fragments and re-ordered them with care.
It's his dearest hope you'll find some comfort in 'em there.

Suddenly, you didn't recognize yourself.
Now can you understand what we've been saying?

They're gonna re-do you (possibly in medium),
the people who made this garage.
They're stoked to review you and everyone is knowing it's large.
An anodized bell rings out the sequence.
Slide your hands on your apron and stoke the glow.
You just don't know! But the night is young, so get ready to go.

I miss that dumb song.
I miss that ol' car.
But what I miss most is being where you are.

Suddenly, you didn't recognize yourself.
Now can you understand what we've been saying?

SPLANE

When we say "doghead," you say "tough"
Assa way it's always gone down, but nowwegotta
Fall on up to the top of the plane and
crawl it on our hands 'n' knees, and so my brother
Why did you take it? Why did you have to
work your grubby hands and grab it?
You didn't make anybody's story better
You didn't do a single thing for yourself
All aboard, all aboard 'cause
I'm gonna splane it all right now
I'm gonna splane it all right now

When we say the world is filled with people
Gonna learn to rollerskate to heaven
You say "I wanna fall up to the top of the plane and
crawl it on my hands 'n' knees," and so my brother
Can you sep --- can you separate the cleric from his bony knees ---
But that's when the grime in the street and the course is complete
For the hamsters that are running the plane
This is remarkable, my car's parkable
So I'm gonna splane it all right now
I'm gonna splane it all right now

Lemme tell you mamaquackers why I played that clump
(I didn't cuss, that's for Haggy, my dog)
'Cause I placed a feather on top of the river
And stood stock still for three-fifths of an hour
I would rather bide my time and wait for it to relent and
recede like some risen demon returning to an
underground lair somewhere inside my glands than engage it in battle,
Or try to squeeze my way through an opening
With batrachian strivings of my feet
I am a tail-less amphibian again.
All aboard, now all aboard
I want you to splane it all right now
I want you to splane it all right now

PRIDE IS A SIN

People are afeared to face it
And no polygraph can trace it
I guess I oughta say it another way

Pride is a sin, in case I've forgotten

The gas needle says it's E
It's a challenging time for me
I think I oughta say it another way

Pride is a sin, in case I've forgotten
Seductive greed twin, so many besotten

You never know.

Waiting for the paint to dry,
the paint is waiting for the paint to dry.
I know I oughta say it another way

Pride is a sin, in case I've forgotten

You never know.

I've been saving it up.

Spoiling for a fight for ridiculous reasons
When the only real fight is within
I stepped on the urge of the madman
Safe for another day, say it another way

Pride is a sin, in case I've forgotten

I've been saving it up.

SIMPLE PLEASURE

The many types of simple pleasures
Luscious things, all wide with wings
All surrounded you at home
And threw your clothes out on the lawn

It's such a weird feeling, getting punched in the face
You gotta let go.
Watching you let it go.

PHYSICS (instrumental)

RAINING SOUND

Where's Mini-K?
A lizard called to say that reindeers came to town
Get on your feet, my brother.
Now (and AROUND the now), the news (anyway):
You met my parade.

Now you know there's a time, and then there's a time for nothing.
(We know.)
Because I'm often gone.
Less hair, little love, alone until you're dead and gone.

Let us put, near and far, all the hazy sunbutter worry away!
Let 'em know that I'm Amos!
Raining sound, and another Monet?
Raining sound in all of a haytown?
No, no, no, no!

Lunar Millie run away, made Ozera who many know
just as a robber, loose guy.
You sail in another, not a letter moved me.
Say no.

Let us put, near and far, all the hazy sunbutter worry away!
Let 'em know that I'm Amos!

Raining sound in all of a haytown?
No, no, no, no!

Where's Mini-K?
A lizard called to say that reindeers cloned a clown.
Because I'm often gone.
Now (and AROUND the now), the news (anyway):
You met my parade.

CHOOSING TO DROWN

Choosing to drown

Choosing forsaking the up for the down

Choosing to not fight the might, the hand at the back of your head

Choosing to think you'd be better off dead

Choosing to drown
To kick ever softer and slower

You gave up the ghost
You fought your last fight
Refused to believe that your path had been right

But Beantown called you

You pushed off the aggressor?
You got that shit done?

Hoo hay!
No choosing to drown!
Hey, Beantown!

GRAVITY GRAB

Gravity grab.
Whoomp? Is it there?
The Eccobriar Outblast had them 'poxied to their chair.

(Follder sahnsanh, myen sahn sahn.)

But upon its completion
The Bedham chief rose
And he told us of a riddle
Which he had the urge to pose

I kid you not --- the lights went out ---
and the Bedham chief, he freaked out, and he really start to shout.

Gravity grab! Whoomp? Is it there?
But that was not the riddle,
no that was not the riddle.
The plastic just burbled and it formed a goo,
and when it was finished, the Bedham chief knew.

(In bloom they wanted. Entro fortified mahnhahn.
Enter poly enter mahnhahn.)

I kid you not --- the lights went out ---
and the Bedham chief, he freaked out, and he really start to shout.

Gravity grab! Whoomp? Is it there?
But that was not the riddle,
no that was not the riddle.
The plastic just burbled and it formed a goo,
and when it was finished, the Bedham chief knew.

Asleep in a room above the club.
Lullabye'd by the muffled thump.
You don't know whatchoo been a-missin', oh boy.

THIS TASTES LIKE A HOTEL

Oh Bonnie
You're good
I'll miss you
I'll see you over the Alfred Neuman sunrise

But that jewel in the stone
Is the heart of God
And the heart of God
Is a Fleagle smile
And a Fleagle smile
Is a neverending, neverending...

(Barely audible in background:
Someone dragged their thumb along my comb
The melody made me high
Whenever I play with an orchestra it makes the ladies cry
I got a spring in my step mamaquacker
I got a jaw in my knee mamaquacker
Tap the ash away, tap the ash away)

This tastes like a hotel
This gives my friends and me
A dang'rous chill

This tastes like a hotel
This doesn't happen
Accidentally
It's a fire to be

Now you will drag me down
Got muck all over me
And your animation's static
And it's all primary colors
At seven frames a second
Then it all falls in the water

But that jewel in the stone
Is the heart of God
And the heart of God
Is a Fleagle smile
And a Fleagle smile
Is a neverending, neverending...

(Whispered:
Chlorine moves up
Occupying the outer rim of a hip-pocket magnolia
These are the best days of our lives
Throw it in for me, Bob
I'll have it up in a snap
Then I promise I'll nap
These are times that try men's souls)

Here's to your rainy day

Hello my heart hello
Swallow Cupid arrow
"We got your back," they said
and when I said "take it away,"
They took it away

They said "Time is running out."
I said, "Time is an illusion, and, uh..."
"No," they said, "not literally,"
I said, "Oh yeah, thank you"

(And your animation's static
And it's all primary colors
At seven frames a second
Then it all falls in the water
simultaneously:
We hugged laughing weeping
We sang in the shade)

"We're into that dynamic"
And their smile grew taller
And a silly little, billy little centimeter longer
You have to be the way you want the world to be
Be grateful you're alive, don't kill anybody?

There's a reason this tastes like a hotel

Why?

Here's to your rainy day, funk monster

Wild, mild freak of trees
Take your comfort where you please
Work the ink down to the nib
Wash and wear your lobster bib
(simultaneously:
I ain't wise enough to be a horse
Steak-and-fries enough to be a horse
No No No
Horse, no
Infiltration of the horse)

Tuck into a tumbling motion
On your feet with arms wide open

You don't know what you got
on your menu, horse

Data, data, data, data

You don't know what you got
You don't know what you got

PANDA

Panda
Put your arms around me
Panda
Ain't you glad you found me

You're just the cutest thing
Panda
C'mon and wear my ring
Ain't you glad you found me Panda

Evil eyes threaten to pull you down panda
I will be there I will be there
I mean dammit - now's the time baby
Dammit, now's the time

All bugs gotta crawl

I anoint thee
Queen Panda
Hey, appoint me
King Panda

Have Teo edit our life
Into a wond'rous thing
C'mon and wear my ring Panda

Evil eyes threaten to pull you down panda
I will be there I will be there
I mean dammit - now's the time baby
Dammit, now's the time

No cannonball knock you to the ground panda
I will be there I will be there
I mean dammit - now's the time baby
Now's the time