Wolves - Josh Ritter
Raised by Wolves - Voxtrot
When We Were Wolves - My Latest Novel
Wolf among Wolves - Bonnie Prince Billy
Wolves (act I and II) - Bob Iver
Werewolf waltz - BC Camplight
Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) - Iron and Wine
Let the Wolves Howl at the Moon - Super Furry Animals
Werewolves of London Town - Warren Zevon
Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
Have you read The Tenderness of Wolves? Very good
I'm not sure wolves are terribly dangerous. Werewolves on the other hand ... you wouldn't mess with Michael J Fox, would you?
Anyway, wolves ... traditional symbol of fear ...
The mistake we made, when I look back at it
is thinking the wolves needed keeping at bay.
God, we're such suckers for myth and excitement -
all that energy wasted and time thrown away.
Talk in basement bars that vengeance was coming
must have been planted by enemy agents.
God, we're such suckers for outrage and gossip
Protection and panic became the contagion.
The hills of the north were just teeming with furies,
The dales of the south overrun by the ghouls.
God, now us idiots are staring at bootstraps
Asking what plague came and made us such fools.
The air filled with whispers ricocheting off windows
and the witchdoctors gave it a million new names.
God, we're such suckers for motives and syndromes,
ducking and wildly misapportioning blame.
The word went around that the wolves were a-circling
The lookouts had seen and had pictures for proof.
Diseases they'd bring and their fierce teeth would strip skin
From the wisdom of age and the fountain of youth.
God, we're such suckers for horror and bloodshed
Snakes starting sneaking over rooftops, down drains.
The city of centuries' care and construction
Turned into a jungle in a matter of days.
The wolves dissipated, though little we knew it -
their howls lingered on in our terrorised ears.
God, we're such suckers for own destruction,
Imprisoned by freedoms and stabbed through with fears.
The gates kept us in and the wolves kept truth out -
Where the wolves are now the sky alone sees
Little they know and even less would they care
that their very existence brought us all to our knees.
It's like a fable, woohoo!
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