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Black Dog

from Lucklaster by The Finks

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lyrics

I got a job in an office I was vacuuming the floor
When it wasn’t an office after hours eight to four
And I started drinking like I never had before
Mostly coffee in the evening but sometimes something more

In the day I was a myth not a flicker of a name
You’d think that all these men in beards and suits are just the same
For me there’s nothing different in the way you hide your shame
In a desk draw in your pocket or in a picture frame

I polished up their competence I scrubbed it ‘til it shined
I got $27 to the hour on the dime
I kept what others threw away I sold what was mine
I bought a jacket and a hat it was the fashion at the time

You’d be excused not for thinking it was something I had planned
You’d be old enough by now to know your mutton from your lamb
You’d be stubborn you’d be stupid to think I gave a damn
In the morning in the evening it’s two fingers or a dram

Black dog in the bucket
Black dog by my shoe
Black dog just my luck
It’s the black dog black dog

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from Lucklaster, released February 11, 2015

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The Finks Melbourne, Australia

The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished.

The Finks have released a steady stream of quietly uncompromising music via Milk! Records since 2012 – three EPs, two cassettes, four LPs and a handful of singles. Critics have described The Finks as “crushingly beautiful” and “perhaps the most underrated act in Australian music”. ... more

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