Every Song Sung To A Dog Lyrics - All Are Saved - Fred Thomas

So that's it? 

Eternity equates to forever walking towards without arriving any place? 

With some beasts leashed 

And the rest so hung up on the majesty of having two functioning feet 

Don't con yourself with comfort 

Don't talk about the future 

In the fur patch shaved and sutured 

In the tangle of tubes where I lose you 

Everything is changed 

And the rest of us remain 

So could we exchange our lifespans? 

Or would that be a shitty deal? 

My eight potential decades-- 

sloppy, selfish and unreal 

For your thirteen years of walking in one clear, pure line 

Even with all this ridiculous talking I can never get through 

And I can't get any help 

I can just stand here in front of you and embarrass myself 

So drag me out of the river in a backwards baptism 

Take it back to the beginning 

To make sure there's no revisions and we are all of one mind 

While we watch this reel rewind 

And I see myself there completely lightweight wasted on like a single drink 

In 2003 in Baltimore 

Smashing my first flip-phone on some piss-soaked alley floor corridor 

Crimes of the heart 

Crimes of the convenience store 

A whole history of crimes felt more important at that time 

I see them all from last to first as they play out in reverse 

I get to find everything I ever lost 

I get to uncast every curse 

See every upturned motorcycle, every page from every bible 

All my acid stomach mornings and my nights of deep survival 

See those horses in the stables 

Teenage tears and jumper cables 

See me rattled and insane from all the changes strange and mangled 

See that never-ending room filled up with everything consumed 

A pile of everything consumed to fill a never-ending room 

Hear every song sung to a dog on every walk with every dog.