Walking Song, Revisited

to the tune of Arcade Fire's Modern Man
(see August 10 for the extended metaphor)


I am the man, and this is my dog.
What would I hear if this dog could talk?
What would I say if I were the dog?

What would I think? What would I know?
Where would I run to? How far would I go?
And would I run away if I were the dog?

God is the man and I am the dog.
I’m not the man I once thought I was.
He seems so far away, and I don't know what to say,

But I'll stretch this leash from here to heaven,
And I'll sometimes think I know the way
And I'll take the paths that I’ve been given
And I'm learning, I'm learning what to say.

I am the man. This is my dog.
I try to listen when we go walk.
We walk every day,
Just keep walking, me and my dog.

You may think that you know,
but you don’t understand
the walk of man and dog.

Whether dog, whether man,
you're just doing what you can
on the walk of dog and man.

Prayer is a leash, and this is my prayer,
Drawing me close to the man up there.
He's not so far away,
And I'm working on what to say.

  God is the man, but I am the one
Who walks with him when the day is done,
And with each breaking dawn
I am still the one

To stretch this leash from here to heaven,
And to sometimes think I know the way,
And to take the paths that I’ve been given,
And I'm learning, I'm learning how to pray.

...but you don’t understand
the walk of man and dog.

Whether dog, whether man,
you're just doing what you can
on the walk of dog and man.

You may think you know,
but you'll never understand.

Whether dog, whether man,
you're just doing what you can
on the walk of dog and man.

The dog and man...
The dog and man...
The dog and man...