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Old Dog

from Let Every Tongue by John Carroll

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lyrics

Old dog snapping my heels
Trailing through the shadows with me.
Gorse and thicket high, we forage the quagmire
Wading through the waters neck deep.
Old cur, your canines pierce
The fleshy tarsals with your temper.
Ensnare me with your fiery optics,
Smouldered eyelids and blackened corneas.

My daughter,
This old dog will retrieve his missing senses
And give you a reason
To be proud to call him daddy
This old dog
This old dog

Master, I am the messenger
Ascending the trees of old Beechgrove
Her bark and crusty shell, the movement of her skin
To the marrow depths I've siphoned ore below.
A hollow of wooden stigmata
I harvest a mine with lumber for bones.
Scavenger magpie, I’m in your home
One for sorrow, azure and cold.

My daughter,
This old dog will retrieve his missing senses
And give you a reason
To be proud to call him daddy
This old dog
This old dog

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from Let Every Tongue, released November 1, 2012

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John Carroll Hangzhou, China

John Carroll is a songwriter and artist from Limerick, Ireland. Carroll's songs can be introspective acoustic narratives, or tongue-in-cheek tunes about acrophobic atheist taikounauts, all topped off with lashings of lyrics and phrases influenced by his adopted home in Hangzhou, China. ... more

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