Dog Lyrics by Ben Folds Five

Dog

My dog wears a path
On the same line
And lately I'm thinking
I might take his advice
Yeah, yeah

'Cause he sees through the fence
And he thinks "I'm free"
My brain and his chain
Look the same to me

All alone in a cage
With a headrest
There's a thing
I can't get off of my chest

'Cause I want to wear
The path that's true
And I want to wear
The path with you

Out on the cold of the leash
For years or more
I don't even know what it was
I was waiting for

Well, maybe I barked
Up the wrong tree
That was then now I'm back
Won't you see me

'Cause I want to wear
The path that's true
And I want to wear
The path with you
Oh, it's true

We used to be afraid
Of growing old
And hanging around
The same old place
But I got older anyway
So won't you
So won't you
So won't you
Brush my fears away

My dog wears a path
And that's a good sign
'Cause my dog wears a path
On the same line

Now alone in his cage
With a headrest
There's a thing
I should get off of my chest
Buy a house, go to work
In the same car
You can [dog/die]
But I'll teach him the same [char?]
Want to tell you that

I want to wear
The path that's true
And I want to wear
The path with you
And I want to wear
The path that's true

[Phone rings]
[Ben: You there?]
[Frally: Yeah.]
[Ben: Whatcha doin'?]
[Frally: You didn't even say hello.]
[Ben: Hello.]
[Frally: Isn't that normally how you answer your phone?]
[Ben: Well, there's a lot of ways to answer the phone. You can say...]
[Frally: You didn't know that you just picked it up and didn't say anything. You go 'You there?'.]
[Ben: I'm sorry.]
[Frally: What are you doing?]
[Ben: Makin' a record.]
[Frally: You're a cumquat.]
[Ben: We're doing a vocal track. Uh, you're, you're, you're all over it now.]
[Frally: Oh great...]