Stray Italian Greyhound Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fluffynelly 

Cover art for Stray Italian Greyhound lyrics by Vienna Teng

The thing I didn't get was the... is a Stray Italian Greyhound symbolic of something? I wiki-ed Italian Greyhounds and they are apparently known for the charm... grace... they're in paintings. But aside from that.

I am just wondering because the greyhound was apparently noteworthy enough to be the title. Just wondering if anyone else has any insight on this.

Well, Vienna said she saw Obama speaking before he announced his candidature for president, and she felt charmed and really attracted to his ideals of change and such. Being that back then Barack wasn't the president, or even running for it, the "Stray Italian Greyhound" may refer to the idea of someone or something so charming and apparently deserving of greatness being in a not so good, or somewhat unexpected place for such a person. Just my take though.

Stray Italian greyhounds have ridiculous amounts of silly, happy energy. Quite at odds with her expectations of dismal gloom. Listen to the strings and tell me you can't see a tiny little rapid dog running down a busy street full of tired people and making them all laugh with surprise and delight...and maybe just a little rueful exasperation (C'mon, you mean, I have to be all happy and energetic now? I just settled into being cynical, seriously!)