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Keep the Dog Quiet Lyrics

My body is a cage.
This union is cage about a cage about a cage.
And this, and this town too.
I'll see you once in a while but I can't be seen with you.
This place is a narrative mess.
The floor a tangle of bedsheets and battered sundress.
The ink has dried in the well.
The journey once was consequential,
Now: sequential, sequential, sequential, sequential.

When will you silence your hounds?
The eldest sons to the altar of the Eternal Sound.
Their blood is spilled at the dawn.
A nation bound to your will, still, the violin plays on.
Plays its devotional song.
Once it was, once it was so essential,
Now: sequential, sequential, sequential, sequential.
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Cover art for Keep the Dog Quiet lyrics by Owen Pallett

Awesome!

Cover art for Keep the Dog Quiet lyrics by Owen Pallett

I'm guessing this is talking about Lewis' disgust of Owen? Not sure.

Cover art for Keep the Dog Quiet lyrics by Owen Pallett

Anyone else notice the Arcade Fire reference there? I think it's also actually the same intervals too except going down instead of up. It's cool that he used to do stuff with them.

 
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