Year Of The Dog Lyrics - Sad Man Happy Man - Mike Doughty

Time tells butterfat lies 

Sweet lousy cupcakes of lies 

I'll comply and I shall play along 

I was born in the year of the dog 

And the blue black tattoo, it crawled up my arm 

Scribbled vines crawling my arm 

[Incomprehensible] rose up and it cried an alarm 

Sounded alarming alarms 

And laid on the lawn and the dawns 

Of the morning got warm 

Queer fear in severe clear 

Scrunch your fat face like a doll 

I got made in a candy floss smog 

I was born in the year of the dog 

And I drove in my car where the hills stand to shore 

Over and down to the shore 

Then I threw out my dreams, so I'd dream them no more 

Drown them and dream them no more 

Then I sat and I stared at the waves 

From my primer gray Ford 

And I'm listless and lost and I cry all the time 

Lost and I cry all the time 

And I felt just the same, though I chuffed up a line 

High but I felt just the same 

And the steam from my cup, a girl loved 

And it spelled out her name