Brass Dogs - Code

Street lamps stoop and kiss the street

Cover their eyes in the blazing heat

Turn the night against the sky

Fold it through the moon

The light slides down the reptile tiles

And gently lie

Run you through the streets of night

Run from the sound of laughing

Knock you out and hold you down

I hear brass dogs barking

Break your head against the wall

Strike the night it’s blinding

The stars are sharp the moon rotates

It doesn’t glide it’s grinding

I’ve wasted time within your mind

Time that I came clean

Show this stallion city buck

And trample my subversion dream

What’s it like to shout your name

Ten thousand voices asking?

I try to speak it but I hear

The brass dogs barking near

Down around the back

Stand up pushed down

Backs against the wall

Pushed over pulled back

In the alley taken behind

Like a puck on your back

That turns as you turn

Turning with you

Like an imp on your back

That titters as you turn

Worming into you

Trample city flay your hooves

Call us home

Our city, our city, our city

Our city breeds a twisted creed

Crepuscular creatures seethe

Try to sleep then just be silent

Coast the edge of dreams

I’ll curl around you but I hear

The brass dogs barking near

I’ll curl around you but I hear

The brass dogs barking near

Trample city flay your hooves

Call us home

Our city, our city, our city

Down around the back

Stand up pushed down

Backs against the wall

Pushed over pulled back

In the alley taken behind

Like a puck on your back

That turns as you turn

Turning with you

Like an imp on your back

That titters as you turn

Worming into you

Tin cans skitter the ground

Mimic the sound

Of brass dogs barking

The brass dogs are barking…

The brass dogs are barking…