Give me a dollar or give me 50 cents
Let me take it back if that ain't what I meant
Give me a coat or give me a bite
Give me a light bulb and make sure it's bright
Give me the moon or give me everywhere
Give me some powder to spray up in the air
[Chorus]
Let me take my thoughts away to think about another day
Remembering the times I pray to help me deal with me
To be the dogman
Give me some attention lend me your ear
Give me what to do and get me out of here
Give me a book give me something to read
Give me a horse race and give me who's the lead
[Chorus]
All the sleeping never waking all the leaves in need of raking
All the business undertaking all my bones and muscles aching
Thoughts and mind are surely flaking over luncheons hands are shaking
Surety of no mistaking cars and horns and glass is breaking
Give me a color make it black or white
Give me a newspaper tell me if it's right
Give me a nail or give me a bat
Give me a skinny or give me a fat
[Chorus]
Let me take it back if that ain't what I meant
Give me a coat or give me a bite
Give me a light bulb and make sure it's bright
Give me the moon or give me everywhere
Give me some powder to spray up in the air
[Chorus]
Let me take my thoughts away to think about another day
Remembering the times I pray to help me deal with me
To be the dogman
Give me some attention lend me your ear
Give me what to do and get me out of here
Give me a book give me something to read
Give me a horse race and give me who's the lead
[Chorus]
All the sleeping never waking all the leaves in need of raking
All the business undertaking all my bones and muscles aching
Thoughts and mind are surely flaking over luncheons hands are shaking
Surety of no mistaking cars and horns and glass is breaking
Give me a color make it black or white
Give me a newspaper tell me if it's right
Give me a nail or give me a bat
Give me a skinny or give me a fat
[Chorus]
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This album was released when the band members, particularly Pinnick and Gaskill, started questioning and distancing themselves from the idea of modern Christianity, which, I'm sad to say, offers more along the lines of pat answers than it does contemplative thought ("Give me a color, make it black or white/Give me a newspaper, tell me if it's right"), often turns a blind eye to its own shortcomings ("All the leaves in need of raking/All the business undertaking"), and is often more known for what it hates and opposes, than for what, or more properly Whom, it is supposed to love and esteem ("Give me some powder to spray up in the air").
I think this is one of the band's best songs ever. Musically it has one of the best hard rock sounds I've heard and still sounds badass nearly fifteen years later. Lyrically it goes places few Christian bands ever have before or since (one notable exception being the under appreciated Five O'clock People). It's just too bad that King's X never really attained the commercial success that they deserved.
God is supernatural to man; He puts into man something man does not naturally have as the created animal developed through evolution...something supernatural. His Divine nature...man created in the image of God. For example: The ability or even desire to love your enemy.
Dogman is a term describing taking a dog ( a non human ) and giving it human ability...hat would be supernatural to the dog. For example: A dog that can run 80 mph...that is natural...dogs can run...this is just an exception natural dog ability....now a dog that can talk that would be supernatural because dogs cannot naturally talk.
So Dogman is reference to man trying to live up to the divine nature God put in us to rise above our animal nature and live and exist on a higher plane. Living out our higher self rather than our lower instinctual feral self.
To help me deal with me
To be the Dogman
"To help me deal with me".......man knowing a recognizing in himself what he thinks and does that is not according to the divine input God has put into every man since the beginning of man...No man does not know what God wants...a prayerful man tries to recognize where he misses the mark so to speak and ask for help beyond himself to do so because it is humanly impossible to live up to this divine gift. We ask for God to do it for us.
So rather than hate ourselves we ask for understanding to help me deal with who we are and what we do that does not meet up to the divine encoding we cannot deny.....but we sure can rationalize really fast with all kinds of contorted "logic."
Let me take it back if that ain't what I meant
Give me a coat or give me a bite
Give me a light bulb and make sure it's bright
Give me the moon or give me everywhere'
Give me some powder to spray up in the air
We are beggars asking for help in our direction
.....but asking for the correct direction ( make sure it's bright )
Powder to spray up in the air.......air freshener......so much information out there really stinks.
Give me what to do and get me outta here
Give me a book give me something to read
Give me a horse race and give me who's the lead
Asking for prayer to be heard......show me how to get to you ( GOD)...maybe in a book or someone to follow ( horse race...the one in the lead )
All the leaves in need of raking
All the business undertaking
All my bones and muscles aching
Thoughts and mind are surely flaking
Over luncheons hands are shaking
Surety of no mistaking
Cars and horns and
Glasses breaking
All the business of life...missing the whole reason for existence and our eternal goal.....all of the stuff that is temporary we make so important...and we are so sure of ourselves aren't we.
Give me a newspaper, tell me if it's right
Give me a nail, or give me a bat
Give me a skinny, or give me a fat
Give me clear direction and confirmation of it.
Nail...bat ...skinny...fat...???????????????????????????????????????????
Nail....something to solidly hang something on ... or... be suffering ( nailed to a cross)
A bat.... be the one causing the suffering???? something to fight your way through or tear down what is in your way?????????????????
Skinny.....the inside truth ???????
Fat...... rally cool or wealthy ??????