Like A Dog

Powderfinger * Track #4 On Odyssey Number Five

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Album Odyssey Number Five

ALBUM

Powderfinger

2000

Like A Dog by Powderfinger

Performed by

Powderfinger

Produced by

Nick DiDia & Powderfinger

Writed by

About

The hard-rock “Like a Dog” was the third single off the album and was a scathing attack on Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s reluctance to bridge the gap between Indigenous Australians. Lead singer Bernard Fanning had long been critical of Howard’s policies, particularly on 1998’s “The Day You...

Like A Dog Lyrics

[Verse 1]
In all that it takes
In all that it shows
The higher the stakes
The lower the blows
And all the mistakes
That he's never known
Whatever it takes
He'll be stealing the show

[Pre-Chorus]
Now he nervously shakes when we rattle his stage
But he's happy to be stuck back in his halcyon days
Now we're trying hard to reconcile a history of shame
But he reinforced the barriers that keep it the same

[Chorus]
If you treat me like a dog
And keep me locked in a cage
I'm not relaxed or comfortable
I'm aggravation and shame
If you treat me like a dog
Yeah, you treat me like a dog
But it's a fine, fine time for the people in the lucky land

[Verse 2]
In all that it takes
In all that it shows
The higher the stakes
The lower the blows

[Pre-Chorus]
Now he nervously shakes when we rattle his stage
But he's happy to be stuck back in his halcyon days
Now we're trying hard to reconcile a history of shame
But he reinforced the barriers that keep it the same

[Chorus]
If you treat me like a dog
And keep me locked in a cage
I'm not relaxed or comfortable
I'm aggravation and shame
If you treat me like a dog
And keep me locked in a cage
I'm not relaxed or comfortable
I'm aggravation and rage

[Outro]
If you treat me like a dog
And keep me locked in a cage
I'm not relaxed or comfortable
I'm aggravation and rage