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



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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



[chorus]