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A Boy’s Best Friend Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I just don't fit in this place
Their thoughts cast me out of here
Their home has run out of space
My mind's already out of here
[Chorus]
Won't you come along, dear?
Won't you come along?
[Verse 2]
Words that are spoke alone
Phrases you will never hear
Empty rooms and a telephone
That I will never use, never fear
[Chorus]
I am all alone, dear
I am all alone
[Verse 3]
My dogs come sit next to me
A pack of dogs and cigarettes
My only friends speak no words to me
But they look at me and they don't forget
That a boy's best friend is his mother or whatever has become his pet
I just don't fit in this place
Their thoughts cast me out of here
Their home has run out of space
My mind's already out of here
[Chorus]
Won't you come along, dear?
Won't you come along?
[Verse 2]
Words that are spoke alone
Phrases you will never hear
Empty rooms and a telephone
That I will never use, never fear
[Chorus]
I am all alone, dear
I am all alone
[Verse 3]
My dogs come sit next to me
A pack of dogs and cigarettes
My only friends speak no words to me
But they look at me and they don't forget
That a boy's best friend is his mother or whatever has become his pet
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Genius Annotation
Along with “Death Letter”, “A Boy’s Best Friend” is one of the more somber tracks of “De Stijl”- which is really saying something. Isolation is the overarching theme of this unnervingly simplistic song. Even though the lyrics could be from the point of view a person of any age, the fact that he feels suffocated by “them” and that he needs to run away, the importance of dogs as pets, and the fact that the next track in the album starts with a young boy’s voice all indicate that we are hearing the inner monologue of a tortured and isolated runaway teen.
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Credits
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Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Drums
Recorded At
Third Man Studio (Detroit, Michigan)
Release Date
June 20, 2000
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