Some Kind of Dog~I'm not trying to say that you're some kind of dog/Or there’s a reason that you may have heard that a lot/I'm not trying to say that is all that you are/Well that's just all I’ve seen before//Is that a hand-held mirror or a magnifying glass/I spent all my wishes in the life that I lived last/I spent all my hours working for cash/Mirrors are made for lookin’ back//When the hens aren’t layin' and the geese have all flown/If there's a screw in my tire I might write a song/But how will I know when I’ve been here too long/Well most of the time, I've got it wrong//People are like pictures and passing landscapes/The more the sun shines on a place, the more that the colors fade/Bleached out shades of gray, brown, and black/Well they don’t ever turn back//I like being right as much as I like thunder/But I don’t know when I started to like bein’ drug under/I remember a three-legged dog my second uncle called Finn/But I never thought to ask, what happened to him//I'm not trying to say that you're some kind of dog/Or there’s a reason that you may have heard that a lot/I'm not trying to say that is all that you are/Well that's just all I’ve seen before//So don't spend all your time looking in mirrors and writing songs/About faded-out pictures and three-legged dogs/There's not a looking glass that can tell you if you've been here too long/Or a screw that could turn you into some kind of dog//
credits
from Gold From Rust,
released November 18, 2018
Birdie Fenn Cent - Gold From Rust (debut album)
Good And Gone Records
Words & Music by Birdie Fenn Cent
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jacob Crabtree in Portland, OR
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