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Mexican Dogs Lyrics
Lock all exit doors
Now I wanna be your dog
Tape winding up
Hot tide, rattling off
Say goodbye to the friends you brought
Run with us
Oh where I walk now. Where I walk now
When I talk now. When I talk now
Oh where I walk now. Where I walk now
When I talk. When I talk
Flashlights go out
Stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
Tires burn in the dark
Mary's beads and the burning heart
Falling apart
High tide kicking sand
High tide we're all raised to win
To taste the salt
Coca-cola
Cost a quarter on my block
On my block
Coca-cola
Cost a quarter on my block
On my block
Flashlights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
Flash lights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights
We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights
When I taste the salt
When I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
Mexican dogs
Now I wanna be your dog
Tape winding up
Say goodbye to the friends you brought
Run with us
When I talk now. When I talk now
Oh where I walk now. Where I walk now
When I talk. When I talk
Stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
Mary's beads and the burning heart
Falling apart
High tide we're all raised to win
To taste the salt
Cost a quarter on my block
On my block
Coca-cola
Cost a quarter on my block
On my block
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
Flash lights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names
We'll chase the bright lights
We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights
When I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
Mexican dogs
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An obvious cultural reference/observation for a California band: Mexicans don’t name their dogs. This was the case in Mexico up to about a generation ago and usually common for Mexicans here in CA or southwest. You just named the “dog” (‘perro’ or ‘chucho’). No attachment, no loss. So I’ll be your dog, you will command and lead. We are nameless, unattached. We don’t really belong in anyone’s world. We can come undone, in our beliefs, life itself.
This song is absolutely amazing.
Is that a reference to when coke dropped to $25 for a gram, and has stayed there? Addiction and detox?
So maybe because this my first time paying attention to the band, in spite of actually being a Cold War era kid myself, I was trying to conceptually combine the band name with the song lyrics, or at least the song’s title itself, and where I arrived at the end of my first listen was at a notion that the song is, at least potentially, about ‘guys’ like myself whom normally had either successful (America’s Hayday) parents and/or Vietnam-era traumatized societal ‘caregivers’ (and children) all around them. You know, kinda a ‘hood’ or ‘rude boy’ esthetic, so basically- the Cold War Kids (e.g. the band members) basically felt put-upon, or neglected, like a Mexican dog might.
crazy..they're obviously talking about how mexicans cross the border, illegally.
Mary's beads, rosary, which is used to pray. Burning heart, is the sacred heart tied to jesus and the Catholic religion. Majority of mexicans are catholic. They are praying the rosary that they will not get caught. Taste of salt, Salt water. The immigrants have to run from immigration like dogs basically. Mexico is a very poor country, hence coca cola a quarter. Mexicans have one dream and one dream only, to come to America, where they arent treated like animals and given no rights.
yes I love it. although not quite sure of the meaning