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Dog's Life

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What would you say if i left this town tomorrow?
I guess i want, but i know i'll miss the train
I know i would

I'll take a dog's life
Just lying in the sun
I'll take a dog's life
'couse i don't care for this one

Chasing trains and plains and rain
Where is my rain falling down?
Upon a thirsty world
I never want to be the same

Another time, i might have fit in allright
But not this time, i guess i'm just too soon
To change my town

I'll take a dog's life
Just lying in the sun
I'll take a dog's life
'couse i don't care for this one

Chasing trains and plains and rain
Where is my rain falling down?
Upon a thirsty world
I never want to be the same

I'll take a dog's life
Just lying in the sun
I'll take a dog's life
'couse i don't care for this one
'couse i don't care for this one

Dog's life
Dog's life

Na na na

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ingieggert On Oct 31, 2006

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by swollen uvula

19y ago

This song makes me think of my cat. If only I could afford to live a simple, carefree life like his. Hopefully, the alien overlords will make me their pet cat.

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by swollen uvula

19y ago

This song makes me think of my cat. If only I could afford to live a simple, carefree life like his. Hopefully, the alien overlords will make me their pet cat.

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by Eamon

18y ago

Says E of this song:

"This was written in the late 1980s when I first moved from Virginia to Los Angeles. I was so lonely and, well... miserable. I lived near the Burbank airport, which I later learned was a neighborhood full of poisoned water from the Lockheed plant. I'd go for runs to burn off nervous energy and one day I was running by this dog laying in his yard. I felt a wave of envy. I wanted his carefree life. I recorded the song on my four track cassette recorder in my closet that night. This version was recorded with Jon Brion several years later in the same Silver Lake house we finished My Beloved Monster in."

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by sharsh 14y ago

Yep, good one Eamon...I could'a quoted E from Useless Trinkets also but that's just lazy.

All I'd say is (regarding song lyrics).... yeah, I would too. and if I couldn't be a dog I'd be a lizard on a rock on a beautiful Spring afternoon! x

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