Year of the Dog
A
Time tells butterfat lies
E
Sweet lousy cupcakes of lies
A
I'll comply and I shall play along
E A
I was born in the year of the dog
D
And the blue black tattoo, it crawled up my arm
A
Scribbled vines crawling my arm
D
And a rooster rose up and it cried an alarm
A
Sounded alarming alarms
E
And laid on the lawn and the dawns
D
Of the morning got warm
A
Queer fear in severe clear
E
Scrunch your fat face like a doll
A
I got made in a candy floss smog
E A
I was born in the year of the dog
D
And I drove in my car where the hills stand to shore
A
Over and down to the shore
D
Then I threw out my dreams, so I'd dream them no more
A
Drown them and dream them no more
E
Then I sat and I stared at the waves
D
From my primer gray Ford
A [instrumental break]
D
And I'm listless and lost and I cry all the time
A
Lost and I cry all the time
D
And I felt just the same, though I chuffed up a line
A
High but I felt just the same
E
And the steam from my cup, a girl loved
D
And it spelled out her name
