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Odyssey # 5	Like a Dog

 Music:Powderfinger

Lyrics: Bernard Fanning

Band Quotes:

People keep saying different things about like a Dog. Haugy wrote the riff for it and it all came together in 15 minutes- it just came flying out of him. I love David Bowie so it was bound to come out eventually.

-Bernard Fanning

The song is about John Howard, the whole attitude of his government towards Australia and how all that seems to matter is reforming the tax system. No one cares about the actual people and the fact that a lot of people in this country still feel disadvantaged- indigenous people in particular.

-Bernard Fanning

Its obviously about a particular issue in Australia, but it's really just voicing our opinions. Its overtly, governmentally political, but I think that our songs about relationships, or situation, or the way people relate to each other are political too, in a different context. There's a lot of politics that goes into the way you deal with other people.

-Bernard Fanning

(on the film clip) It was a good way to visually represent the song. Especially with Anthony, because he's such a compelling person to watch.

-Bernard Fanning

Fan Theories: (none)

Lyrics:

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In all that he takes in all that he shows

The higher the stakes the lower the blows

And all the mistakes that he's ever known

Whatever it takes he'll be stealing the show

Now he nervously shakes as 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

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

But it's a fine fine time for

The people in the lucky land

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