Walking through the market in the middle of the day!
Got a burning lantern and I’m shining it your way!
Looking for an honest man, but everyone’s a fake!
You’re slaves to your possessions and the money that you make!
You’re bowing to the politicians, begging for a dime!
I’m spitting on your statues ’cause I’m living out of time!
I am the Dog! I’m living in the dirt!
I don’t need a mansion and I don’t need a shirt!
I’m eating from the garbage and I’m sleeping in a tub!
Society’s a sickness and I’m canceling the club!
So if you are an emperor, or if you are a king
Get out of my sunlight, you ain’t blocking my spring!
Plato’s in the classroom talking ’bout the Forms!
Defining human beings with his academic norms!
He says we’re just a biped without a single feather!
So I plucked a local chicken and I brought it through the weather!
I threw it on his desk and said”Behold, a mortal man!”
Your categories belong inside the garbage can!
I used to have a wooden bowl to drink out of the stream!
I thought it was essential to my self-sufficient dream!
But then I saw a little boy drinking from his hands!
I smashed the bowl to pieces, I don’t need your rich demands!
I’m shedding every comfort till there’s nothing left to lose!
I’m a philosophic menace and I’m giving you the news!
I am the Dog! I’m living in the dirt!
I don’t need a mansion and I don’t need a shirt!
I’m eating from the garbage and I’m sleeping in a tub!
Society’s a sickness and I’m canceling the club!
So if you are an emperor, or if you are a king
Get out of my sunlight, you ain’t blocking my spring!
Stand a little to the left!
You’re blocking my rays!
I’m the wealthiest man in Athens!
Because I own nothing!