Story Behind The Song
Walking around Venice and seeing an old junkyard dog who clearly no one cares for and beginning to think about homeless people and all the creatures who suffer around us every day and how overwhelming it can be if you let it in.
Song Description
A look at some of the suffering around all of us and a sense of helplessness at it.
| Song Length |
2:54 |
Genre |
Blues - Rock, Rock - Funk |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Restless |
Subject |
Hunger, Existence |
| Similar Artists |
The Neville Brothers, Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
JUNKYARD DOG
Lyrics & Music by: Jonathan Sorensen
© 1996
Woof woof,
what am I?
What are you?
What am I?
I know this dog, he's a junkyard dog
he's too blind to be free
the sky is dark and the concrete's cold
walkin' by he barks at me . . . and he wanna' . . .
Follow me, but I got nothing
To give that'll make him like before,
It's a sorry state of things, for a junkyard
dog, left on cold concrete
to freeze watching others eat their fill
it's sorry state of things, for a junkyard dog
seen this kid like a junkyard dog,
diggin' lunch from the garbage.
he's got one arm and I laugh at him,
he swallows me down with his sorrow.
and he wanna' . . . follow me
Follow me, but I got nothing
To give that'll make him like before,
It's a sorry state of things, for a junkyard
dog, left on cold concrete
to freeze watching others eat their fill
it's sorry state of things, for a junkyard dog
what am I?
What are you?
What am I?
Follow me, but I got nothing
To give that'll make him like before,
It's a sorry state of things, for a junkyard
dog, left on cold concrete
to freeze watching others eat their fill
it's sorry state of things, for a junkyard dog
Woof woof,
what am I?
What are you?
What am I?