The Animal Shelter

from The Duck Hunter by Bill Foreman

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My scar's started bleeding and my heart can't go on.
My eyes have grown dim and my brain starts to swim and I'm gone.

Then I pick up the scent
And my body's unbound from society and government.
Can't distinguish the breed
But any one of the above can fulfil my particular need.

Then there's a shock to my skull and I see it--
How that door opens wide.
The white coat reaches out and gets me
And I'm going outside.
There's that scent coming down the hallway
And my feet get free.
I'm led straight to the room where my senses swoon
When the door shuts behind me.

Back in the streets I'm in miserable pain.
It's five minutes gone by since that smell passed.
I got that white tile room getting stuck in my brain
I'm halfway to insane at long last.
Female hairs filled that room and they spoke of a foul plan
Because I felt in my gut a cold cut from a hairy, white hand.
But although they were men they could not kill me then.
I left two of them bleeding and with my heartbeat still beating I ran.

But there's the patter of paws!
So thank God I'm not governed by the Mosaic moral law.
I'll chase that sweet little tail
And I'll run 'til I drop. I won't stop until they throw me in jail.

Just one look and I'm hooked and I see her
And she's gray as a gray can be.
By that truck tearing up the sidewalk
And I'm crying with glee.
I put my face in her fur and I greet her
And I'm flying off the street.
While my little heart pounds my paws touch ground
And then a hand grips my feet.

I look straight in her face. Her scent's now more than a trace
And that steel door shuts on my free days.
Though they'll cut me unkind, it's shot far from my mind.
In a friendlier fashion, I'm blinded by a passionate haze.

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from The Duck Hunter, released January 1, 1998

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Bill Foreman Los Angeles, California

Bill began developing his approach to song and recording in 1986. Bill recorded his first solo album, "The Bathroom Mirror," in 1997 on a portable Walkman recorder. In December, 2015, Bill released “Funeral Hymns and Outlaw Ballads,” a compilation of his work. Bill’s most recent record, “The Bliss-Chasers,” came out in August, 2016. ... more

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