Dog Prophecies

My mother's in the garden

My brother's in the yard

Dad's under the car

Swearing at God

In the late July evening

I'm watching the sky

Usher my grandfather

One last goodbye

As the pink fades to orange

I am wishing once more

I were nine and that time

Were a friend, one of mine, I go

Ooh ooh ooh

But now who am I kidding

Never had one of those

I swirl in the backyard

I run with the ghosts

As the neighbor dog's barking

His prophetic spout

Your youth is a crown

That you're doomed to lose now

And the war's on the home front

It's coming by twos

As the late July heat

Crashes over you

And if love had a spark

It went out on the Fourth

It was buried in the backyard

Why carry the torch

Now it roams through the garden

Where the vegetables grow

And my mother, the gardener

Where she will stop

I don't know

I don't know

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load-

Take it off

Gravity

Gravity

Have some grace on me

Now my brother

He's a good one

He was born a grown man

Knee stains of cut grass

Still he's coming in last

Too soft in the middle

The town turns up its nose

Can you see through my riddle

To the child still wearing his clothes

Can you get close

Still wearing his clothes

Can you get close

The midwest has fallen

Downtown wants it back

Hope they have a cement

That can seal up the cracks

Take my stone fruit and thunder Lock it up tight

But no city street show can block out the sight

Of my mother, my brother, my father, and that late July night

Of my mother, my brother, the gardener, and that late July night

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load

Take it off

Gravity

Gravity

Have some grace on me

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load

Take it off

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a break

Take a break

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load

Take it off

Gravity

Gravity

Have some grace on me

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load

Take it off

Gravity

Gravity

Have some grace

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load

Take it off

Gravity

Gravity

Have some grace on me

Heavyweight

Take a break

Take a load

Take it off

Gravity

Gravity

Have some grace on me