How good is he?
How warm are his eyes
You'll see it's not a reprise
Did he arrive

Too late and too tethered away
To put on his suit and his tie?
How good is he?
How warm is his heart

Or ego telling him which place to park
Did he relate, the message is clearly hardly
Grounds for dismissal outright
Grounds for dismissal outright

I wake up and wait up
When anger's in fashion
I wake up and wait up
It echoes through the mansions

I wake up and wait up
When April's in may, oh uh oh
I wake up and wait up
The answers are fatal

The answers are fatal
When I wait up and wake up
The answers are fatal
If he's truly out of sight

Is he truly out of mind?
If he's truly out of sight..


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    I think this song has to do with falling behind on a workload and being in a constant rush in order to meet the demands of your boss.

    I don't think it's much deeper than that, and I don't really see the Plato connection, as suggested in the Lost Dogs liner notes.

    $p$on May 10, 2008   Link

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