Keeping up with the Jones I still try
It's dog eat dog neath a vicious sky
All the finer things that you demand
This rat race has gotten out of hand
I toil and strain just to bridge the gap
The weight of life heavy on my lap
A token reward to earn my pay
The burden tests my will every day
Try hard as I might you just don't care
A sad reflection of cold despair
There's no joy ever since you left town
Your rejection only brings me down
So now in the quiet of the night
By the gentle glow of dim moonlight
I can still hear your shrill voice callin'
Oh how the mighty now have fallen
Water flowing through the lake, ripples on the surface
The fish below swimming to and fro without care or purpose
Save to find more food and to not be viewed by the enemies within
Who would not think twice to exact the price to sustain their lives therein
“I just don’t care,”
I tried to pretend,
As if nothing could bother me,
Ever again.
But for this insidious world,
I could not prepare,
For a dog-eat-dog world,
Where I’m wearing milk bone underwear.
A MAN
LYING ON THE SIDEWALK.
NOT STOPPING TO
CHECK HIS WELFARE.
SEEING A MAN
SLAPPING
A WOMAN.
LOOKING
THE OTHER WAY.
NOT WANTING
TO GET INVOLED
NOR CARING.
WE LIVE IN A
DOG EAT DOG WORLD
WHAT DOES GOD THINK OF US?
DOES ANYONE
REALLY CARE?
ABOUT ANYTHING?
YIKES
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When the bullet hits the bone and you're left all alone...born to ramble and bound to roam
when nowhere is your home...under the radar and over the rainbow
Like a thought in a galaxy i'm gone...like spiders and snakes all fight for twisted thrones
Rabid with rabies...Dog eat Dog
Beautiful babies grow up to be ugly murderous monsters...truth told with hate in toxic dumpsters
Spinning like hamsters running in wheels...going round in circles like funnel cloud fear
Dry the tears and spill bad blood...no peace no joy no love
false prophets and pimps call themselves God
Rabid with rabies...Dog eat Dog
O how the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war perish
It's gold and greed that the foolish ones cherish
Lions taking lambs with force...far from the divine they stay divorced
Chaos runs its course...mindless minions blown to peices in mental minefields
Devils and demons know the deal...with lunatic lies and lead sleeping pills
The insane and the ill love to kill kill kill
Brother against brother and father against son
Lives of love turn into hearts of stone
Rabid with rabies...Dog eat Dog
Sweat through labor's fervent pace.
You pitiful dog,
You minuscule cog,
Lest you vanish off the face
Of the earth without a trace.
Don't dare threaten profit gain
When you don't understand
Why wealth could own the land
For which your fathers died in vain.
That you may see your heroes slain.
If you find you disagree...
Take to the streets,
Face my marching fleets.
Just hold your ground and do not flee.
Your weaknesses are mine to see.
Yet, if the fear has gripped your heart.
Don't act like a jerk.
Just go back to work,
And let me fuel your tortured art,
Before I rip your soul apart.
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