Song Description

An aging and lonely John Prine-type figure, perhaps in a old peeling clapboard farmhouse overrun by weeds, cries out to no one about the dissolution of everything hs known. Working his way up through his past, he asks his old dog, his mother, his old wife or lover (presumably all gone) and finally, God, where they've gone and why.

Lyrics

Hey dog
where you gone?
You've been gone
way too long

Hey dog
Can't you see
No one's left
here but me

Another day is done
another friend has cut and run

Hey darlin'
Where you gone?
You've been gone
way too long

Hey darlin'
Can't you see
No one's left
here but me

The highway goes so far
I don't know where you are

Hey mama
where you gone?
You've been gone
way too long

Hey mama
Can't you see
No one's left
here but me

The boy I used to be
I feel your arms holding me

Hey God
where you gone?
You've been gone
way too long

Hey God
What were you thinking of
taking back everything I loved
Another setting sun
Another day I ain't seen no one
Hey dog....


SOLO INST

bridge
This house don't seem the same
As when those kids were playin'
Out there in those ragged weeds
Now that field has gone to seed

And the paint is peelin'
I ain't feeling
nothing anymore

Hey dog
where you gone?
You've been gone
way too long

Hey dog
Can't you see
No one's left
here but me

Hey dog
Can't you see
No one's left
here but me