Dog Grab Dog

when you were there i couldn’t meet your stare
i was a bad friend in a bad way now i’ve got nothing left to say

i just tell it to my notebooks like i could coat hooks
and reel them in glassy eyed mornings wide open

you never told me blind faith was like a mother
you just ditch one and you go find another
you never told me blind faith was like a mother
you just ditch one and you go find another

[chorus]: it’s a dog grab dog world (and) she’s not a dog she’s a girl
it’s a dog grab dog world (and) she’s not a dog she’s a girl

well look look look they’re selling her body for beer
saying look look look what’s under here
profits for pussy giving not to her tushy
gets weak and meek when her thanks ain’t in the bank
gets weak and meek when her thanks ain’t in the bank

[chorus]

i looked through all of those magazines
i found not one picture of me
i found skeletons of humans pushing dollars like they’re brooms
and no room for those flowers to have bloom
i found skeletons of humans pushing dollars like they’re brooms
and no room for those flowers to have…
i (just) walk this block the gentrification clock goes tick tock tick tock
(well) who will they squeeze out this time
(you) push the poor people out to where we can’t hear them whine
(you) change the names of the neighborhood
where the painted over shootings make the pavement look good
invite the white upwardly mobile home
(then) try taking a lease
out on all the poems
do you buy those rhymes because they’re packaged sublime
while great artists starve to death all the time
do you buy those rhymes because they’re packaged sublime
while great artists starve to death all the time