"Authority" lyrics - DR. DOG

Seventeen, working overtime
The acting part of a slow decline
I was caught in a trance
Like a viper advancing
Totally over it, down on the corner
I wrote my name on a picket sign
I've had my knife since '99
And I have been driving at night with my head in the lights
And I'm already gone by the time I got back
To the otherside of a big dumb world
I found my place, my style unfurled, like a carrier pigeon, the only religion
Got me cutting it back to the part on my heart where the roses roam and the crew is game
A photograph of an empty frame, I was caught in a moment with a worthy opponent
And I'm thumbing my nose on the rose of the thorn
Of authority
Ah yeah
Over and over and over again, I'll know it's time by the time it ends
I was shot in the shadows but I'm bleeding for real, when somebody loves you, they water the wheel
She saved my ass at the break of dawn, my files in pieces, my money's gone
I was under persuasion, a syndicated occasion
On the opening night of the fight for the likes of the allegorical rainbow bright
Believe you me, it's an oversight
I've been roaming with omens in a paper canoe
And I can tell it's a lie by the size of your shoes
Yeah, it's only a moment of every time the clothes go up but the stars align
You can marry a mission under scary conditions
But I'm blowing my horn on the side of the thorn
Of authority, ah yeah
Yeah I'm blowing my horn on the side of the thorn
Of authority, ah yeah
Ah yeah
Ah yeah