Year Of The Dog - Gruff Rhys

I was born in the Year of the Dog

I will comply and keep turning those cogs

I am faithful but I will bite

I will not cower in a fight

And I’ll growl and I how how how howl

And I’ll wake you in the morning with the first news into town

And I’ll growl and I how how how howl

But you know that I will ease all your fears we can drown

And I was born in the Year of the Dog

I’ll be turning those cogs

Through the snow and the fog

String me along

Your companion in song

Treat me wrong

And one day I’ll be gone

I was conceived in '69

Year of the Rooster and liberated minds

You were raised with tigers teeth

Soothsayers eyes and rockets on your feet

And you ran and you never came back

And when you looked into the mirror you were ready to attack

And they rode and you walked to your grave

And when they woke you in the morning you were slumbering dead

I was born in the Year of the Dog

I’ll be turning those cogs

Through the snow and the fog

String me along

Your companion in song

Treat me wrong

And one day I’ll be gone