We had a great day
Even though we forgot to eat
And you had a bad dream
And we got no sleep
'Cause we were kissing
[Verse 2: Phoebe Bridgers]
I had a fever
Until I met you
Now you make me cool
But sometimes I still do
Somethin' embarrassing
[Chorus: All]
I never said I'd be alright
Just thought I could hold myself together
When I couldn't breathe, I went outside
Don't know why I thought it'd be any better
I'm fine now, it doesn't matter
I didn't wanna be this guy
I cried at your show with the teenagers
Tell your friend I'll be alright
In the morning, it won't matter
I wanna be emaciated
I wanna hear one song without thinkin' of you
I wish I was on a spaceship
Just me and my dog and an impossible view
I dream about it
And I wake up falling
About
Phoebe Bridgers revealed to Pitchfork that she wrote “Me & My Dog” about having a panic attack and wanting to escape the reality of her anxiety and be with her dog, Max, who sadly passed away in 2019. In that same interview, Bridgers has also dedicated her sophomore solo album, Punisher, released 2 years after this song and a year after his passing, to Max.
Q&A
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Max is a black pug that I had since I was 8. He’s my best friend and he died at the beginning of last year at 16, which is very old for a pug. I wrote the boygenius song “Me & My Dog” about Max before he died. He isn’t memorialized on [Punisher], but it is just a dark, more adult take on life. Going home to an empty apartment was pretty fucked up. Punisher has a dark tinge of loneliness. His death felt too raw before, but now I’m getting around to sticking him in stuff more.
Max is the most pure thing I’ve ever felt anything about. It’s like the death of innocence. I’m not really a crier in therapy. But a couple of weeks ago I did EMDR [eye movement desensitization and reprocessing] for the first time and my therapist was asking me about traumas, all this fucked up shit from my childhood, the stuff that I’m actually paying for therapy to get through. Then Max came up and I started sobbing uncontrollably. My therapist was like, “Can you please use the tissues on the counter and not your sleeve? It’s gross.”
— Via Pitchfork
- 2.Me & My Dog
- 3.Souvenir
- 4.Stay Down
- 6.Ketchum, ID
