The Man with the Dogs Lyrics
I picture a guy who's percieved as a weirdo by these stuffy tightwads, and instead of being anti-social or lashing out at them for it, he decides to embrace it and goes around showing that off, just to make them squirm. "A smile is worth a thousand biting phrases, see how stupid you are."
The liner notes for Give Me Convenience have, next to the lyrics, the words, "PERFORMANCE ART AS A WAY OF LIFE." I see it as a guy who's given up everything to be the man with the dogs, following the wealthy elites around and laughing at them, making them wonder what he finds so funny...
You forgot this part. So did everyone, really. Played live it varies, but the studio version goes into some thing about the pursued going inside and seeing the man outside the window and "your wretched corporate li(v)es disintegrating into ashes... ashes... ashes... we all... fall... DOWN..." It always ends with some variation on the "ashes" part. Fun but disturbing.
I didn't get the idea behind this song when I was first listening to it, being about 15 then. The main reason why I stopped listening to DK back then was their all-around attack on human insecurities, like elsewhere in "your emotion" or "halloween". i never cared so much for the punk-scene-inner-conflict songs like "do the slag", their best work was done when Jello mercilessly described absurd aspects of everyday (Western) society. Like here. Insecure people, taught by their environment to wear a fake smile all the time, are not neccessarily bad people, they sometimes are just heavily misguided. I kinda felt personally attacked by this song, as i never felt comfortable around strangers. When people like my teenageself hear laughter, somewhere, they think it's directed at them and they get self-conscious. You can only pity people who stay in that stage of growth.
This song is the troll's anthem!
It's all about breaking into and exposing inflated egos, narcissism, and self delusions without asking permission.
ARRGH! I'm dying to know what this song is about, so if any knows, drop me a line. I assume it's about stalkers or the like, who judge people based on how they act and dress.
The Man With The Dogs is ATTACKING the girl. In an Antichrists mind - which is what Jello is assuming here - they can see, as noted by the phrase 'see all your habits' all the lower mundane usless base if not 'rodent' habituae of the Earth born human being; in this case a girl. Jello even mocks her mindless drivel at the end when he rants, not on the lyric sheet, about shopping and gossip - as in he knows (because he see's) she is nothing more than a bag of self importance asserting itself. This relationship is the...
The Man With The Dogs is ATTACKING the girl. In an Antichrists mind - which is what Jello is assuming here - they can see, as noted by the phrase 'see all your habits' all the lower mundane usless base if not 'rodent' habituae of the Earth born human being; in this case a girl. Jello even mocks her mindless drivel at the end when he rants, not on the lyric sheet, about shopping and gossip - as in he knows (because he see's) she is nothing more than a bag of self importance asserting itself. This relationship is the essence of an Antichrist attack because it gives away their motive. That's right....you just found it...why an Antichrist lives....it's to do this......to PASS JUDGMENT upon humanity. Welcome to 1984....Jello would know because he's one of them. TOTAL HYPOCRITE as are ALL ANTICHRISTS for they are not better than a mindless driveling self important girl with hysterical tendencies. They all fear the human rising up so this is really why an Antichrist attacks.........TO KEEP YOU DOWN. Jello even uses the word 'breakdown'. You can't channel this stuff. This is exactly but exactly an Antichrist attack and it is what they do and you cannot shake them off. He'll just laugh at you trying then make you give up trying for life. Again their agenda. So fuck off Jello I am so onto you.....T Windom
Rocker of a number- Cracker of a joke - Jello is bloody sarcastic, I dont know wheter to dance or laugh! It's pretty obvious its about those weirdoes at parks and shopping malls - those freaks are freaky!
I always pictured a homeless guy laughing at the lives of uptight rich white folks, but I could be wrong.
As I first listened to this song, I interpreted it as an attack on not "stuffy, right-wing, elitist tight-wads" versus the whole freeform punk scene, but instead on the in-betweens - the not-yet initiated to either side (if Jello actually saw them, I don't know). I think the narrator is pointing out the phoniness and insecurity of one who mimicks without embracing any side. He is escaping the Man with the Dogs, who has come to rat him out to the world: He is nothing inside! An imposter with a punk's mask, a businessman's mask!
This song's about a guy who thinks so highly of himself that he thinks he's getting stalked by some guy, when it turns out that it's just some random person walking their dogs.
rad name man wish i thought of that heh
rad name man wish i thought of that heh