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The Dog-End of a Day Gone By Lyrics
There's a man on the corner
Coming on like Moses
Found a new religion
that rebuts your plastic roses
He's found his path
To the living heart of jesus
You tell him
You've found yours
Been to the future
You've never made
There is nothing less than music
Then the amusement arcade
In a city without a soul
Newspaper boys selling you the hard truth
Lucifer employs by the hands of malady
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Don't let the smoke get in your eyes
Well the drunk outside the Wendy's
Is becoming less than friendly
A dog is barking at the moon
The drunk outside the windy
Is becoming less than friendly
A dog is barking at the moon
You want to get away
From the city of light
Then when you've gone
You want to get back
It is some strange addiction
When you need to put yourself
Back in your eye
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Don't let the smoke get in your eye
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Don't let the smoke get in your...
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Coming on like Moses
Found a new religion
that rebuts your plastic roses
He's found his path
To the living heart of jesus
You tell him
You've found yours
You've never made
There is nothing less than music
Then the amusement arcade
In a city without a soul
Newspaper boys selling you the hard truth
Lucifer employs by the hands of malady
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Don't let the smoke get in your eyes
Is becoming less than friendly
A dog is barking at the moon
The drunk outside the windy
Is becoming less than friendly
A dog is barking at the moon
From the city of light
Then when you've gone
You want to get back
It is some strange addiction
When you need to put yourself
Back in your eye
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Don't let the smoke get in your eye
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by
Stuck at the dog-end of a day gone by, boy
Don't let the smoke get in your...
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Submitted by
championlover On Jun 12, 2006
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LOL! Those lyrics are embarrassingly inaccurate. The first two verses goes like this:
There's a man on the corner Coming on like Moses FLOGGING NEW religion LIKE A BUNCH OF plastic roses He's found his path To the BLEEDING heart of Jesus You tell him You've found yours
HEIR to a future You never made There is nothing LESS AMUSING Then the amusement arcade In a city without a soul Newspaper boys selling you the hard truth Lucifer employs IDLE HANDS BY NIGHT AND DAY
@Apskaft thank you!! I tried to submit changes but they said the lyrics were taken from a licensed source so they have to look into it.
@Apskaft thank you!! I tried to submit changes but they said the lyrics were taken from a licensed source so they have to look into it.
David J stated in 1990 in the Chicago Tribune that it's: You want to get away From the city of LIES Also it was stated: You need to put yourself Back ON THE RACK
it's "stub out the dog-end". a dog-end is a cig butt. you stub it out.
I'd like to know what the 'windy' is that the unfriendly drunk is outside of.
I'd always sing the song as "the drunk outside the Wendy's."
There's no "s" sound, though. And do they have Wendy's in the UK?
There's no "s" sound, though. And do they have Wendy's in the UK?
@ChampionLover windy in British slang was children playhouses.
@ChampionLover windy in British slang was children playhouses.
The dog-end in British slang is a Ciggarette butt. Hence, "Don't let the smoke get in your eye." And it is windy not Wendy's, a windy in British slang is a children's playhouse. It's tiresome to see such beautiful lyrics butchered by people trying to force fit it to mean a commercial burger joint in the US. And I'm American, I just asked my British friends and read a few articles.
@Keeton A friend of mine had a Twitter exchange with David J a couple of years ago about this very line. It's definitely Wendy's.
@Keeton A friend of mine had a Twitter exchange with David J a couple of years ago about this very line. It's definitely Wendy's.
Great song. The lyrics are sufficiently vague, but I surmise they're referencing Los Angeles when they say "City of Lights" and "City without a Soul". Most musicians have a love-hate relationship with the town. Plenty of kooks flogging religion and every Wendy's in Los Angeles has drunks and panhandlers. Still, the amusement arcade is addictive, and that's why so many musicians end up living there.
What a joke of a lyric submission. I'd laugh, but the bigger joke is funnier, and it's really sad that people hide such beautiful lyrics from others.
This song is about doing the devils work - but remembering to take a break because at the end of the day, you're not a demon, though you may be beset by them. It's an argument for the Sabbath.
I always sang it as "drunk outside of Wendy's" as well.