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the futile chase of dog after tail is used as a metaphor both for the cyclical triumphs and failures of our lifetimes and for the endless hunt to find love and acceptance

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One horizon to my back / Another rises up ahead
Eternity before my birth / Eternity again when I'm dead. / Meanwhile I'm just taking spins / Around the poles that keep me in / Tethered to my broken ways / Futility's the name of the chase / Of Dog After Tail,
I guarantee my methods to fail / After all, I'm really not intending to follow my advice / I may get lucky one time, but I probably won't twice / Looks like you could use a laugh. / In that case, you got the right guy. / Redundantly re-butting your ass, / If you're foolish enough to reply / Can't we find some common ground? / I'm tempted to admit you're cute. / Shall I bother to expound? / Or is this just the hopeless pursuit? / of Dog After Tail, / I guarantee my methods to fail / After all, I'm really not intending to follow my advice / I may get lucky one day, but it'll all be gone by night / Maybe this is nothing weird, / Maybe I am no one strange. / Maybe there's nothing to fear, / Maybe there is nothing to change / Some of us just play our parts, / Some of us just take our pills, / Some will listen to their hearts, / But most of what we call free will / is dog after tail...

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from Never Gonna Have a Real Career, released January 1, 2008
Patrick Tyrrell: all instruments/vocals/mixing
Ryan Gentry: mastering

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Oh, that Patrick Los Angeles, California

Originally from the Maryland/DC border, Patrick moved to LA in 2006. Since then, he's been writing/recording songs as a one man band. His clearest influences are Ben Folds Five and The Beatles. He loves life and fears death. Most of his songs are meant to help people cope with fear/loneliness through appreciation of life's awesomeness. He plays in an LA-based band called Nerds & Jerks. ... more

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