Dog Days Are Over

This song completely freaked me out when I first heard it. It still impacts me, though not as badly, and I find other takes on the song fascinating. Plus I want to know whether the horses coming are a good thing or not because my first impression was a dire warning. It doesn't help that reading up meanings on Indian dog days [which are good] and modern references to dogs [which are bad] to figure out what the song writer meant. And nobody here seems to agree. Some see it good. Some see it ominous.

Happiness hit her like a train on a track Coming towards her stuck still no turning back She hid around corners and she hid under beds She killed it with kisses and from it she fled With every bubble she sank with her drink And washed it away down the kitchen sink *** She's someone very guarded and an event happens which fills her with joy, trust, love, you name it. She's not used to this feeling because with it is a fear. If you can be this high how far can you fall? She's not in control. So.. she kills it. She may have killed it with kisses. She may have drank or not. Its all symbolic the point being she fled from what she should have embraced.

The dog days are over The dog days are done The horses are coming So you better run *** Well crud. Things are going to get worse or better? Chickens come home to roost? Whatever she fled has found her? Or she missed out on her chance at happiness when she feared during the "good days" and now bad days have come?

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers Leave all your love and your longing behind You cant carry it with you if you want to survive *** This is where I almost drove off the road. I think the song is almost mocking her reactions to happiness earlier about fleeing. But it doesn't explain whether she has reason for concern or not.

The dog days are over The dog days are done Can you hear the horses? Because here they come *** According to Indian folklore this would be bad. Maybe, again, its alluding to her earlier reaction or how she treated being vulnerable before. Maybe someone was being a dog in the modern sense or people were being dogs and thats all over now and good is coming.

And I never wanted anything from you Except everything you had and what was left after that too, oh *** I'm not sure whether this is the singer lecturing or warning the "her" she is singing about or if the singer is "her" lamenting how she felt about someone or the happiness before she fled. I hear the lament. I know the feeling.

Happiness hit her like a bullet in the head Struck from a great height by someone who should know better than that *** Could be saying as someone guarded she should have seen it coming. She should have known better than to have fallen for someone.