Dead Dogs Two

From the height of the highway onramp we saw

Two dogs dead in a field

Glowing on the Oakland Coliseum green seats wasteland

Dogs we thought were dead

They rose up, rose up when whistled at

Ribcage inflating

Like men on the beach being photographed

A guard dog (guard dog) for what (for what)

Against overzealous penniless athletics fanatics

Getting into games through a hole in the fence

For the owner of the blue tarp tent

Pitched by a creek beneath the onramp

In the privacy of the last three

Skin and boney tree devoid of leaves

And us under siege with our new CDs

Dipping on dead heat

Oakland

It's hard to stand the sight of two dogs dead

Under a sky so blue

You have to stop the blood to your head

To fit the breath in front of you

It's hard to stand the sight of two dogs dead

Under a sky so blue

You have to stop the blood to your head

To fit the breath in front of you

We secretly long to be some part of a car crash

We long to see your arm stripped to the tendons

The nudity of swelling exposed vein

Wiping the back of your hand

To be red tendon dogs (to be red tendon dogs)

Blood breathing by the side of the highway

I long to be dead

Center of a curious crowd

To be touched

Sticky like nearly dried paint

Their soft silent stare

Nursing your face

Anticipating the slightest pinch

I flinch of pain

Everyone blank

In accident awe

As the car crash fiberglass dust

Straight up settles on your raw muscle tissue

It's hard to stand the sight of two dogs dead

Under a sky so blue

You have to stop the blood to your head

To fit the breath in front of you

It's hard to stand the sight of two dogs dead

Under a sky so blue

You have to stop the blood to your head

To fit the breath in front of you

To be red tendon dogs (to be red tendon dogs)

To be red tendon dogs (to be red tendon dogs)

To be dead center of a curious crowd

"The birds are in misery. I don't think they sing, they just screech

In pain. Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort

Of harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder."