One of our favorite love songs, and it's meant for a cat! The AT On: Housepets and Homelife post and readers' comments made us think of the Red House Painters song, Wop-a-Din-Din. Its lyrics exemplify the warmth added to home life shared with a devoted pet...
She comes in near
When I scratch under her ear
And she lifts her head
When I kiss around her neck
Won't go to sleep
When she falls along my side
And two green eyes fade
To a porcelain marble white
And somehow when I sleep
She'll end up at my feet
And if I roll and kick her out
I might knock her to the ground
But she'll come back anyhow
The morning comes
She squints up to shield out the sun
And she'll go and lay
In the warmest dusty rays
And I hold her face
She lays perfectly in place
And she'll yawn and stretch
And stare me down expressionless
And lay back down into her nest
And if someone calls
She'll race me out the hall
When she hears the phone
Then she knows I'm leaving home
She don't wanna be alone
And I know it's wrong
That I'm going away so long
And for her it's rough
I can't be with her enough
But I'll never give her enough
We encourage you to give Wop-a-Din-Din a listen: it'll have you in tears over how much you love your cat. The song is on Red House Painters' 2001 album, Old Ramon. Photo: Flickr
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man, that song makes me cry!
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ahh, the red house painters good album, but nothing compared to songs for a blue guitar.
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Freddy Mercury wrote a great song about his cat on the last Queen album before he died... Delilah.
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The Weakerthans also have a couple very nice cat tracks - "Plea From A Cat Named Virtute" and "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure".
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I LOVE Plea from a Cat named Virtute! The Weakerthans are the best band at wordplay that I can think of. I love the whole song, especially these lines:
So we should open up the house,
invite the Tabby two doors down.
You could ask your sister if,
she doesn't bring her basset hound.
:)
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Don't forget about Red House Painters "3 Legged Cat"
She was asleep when I hobbled to the bed
with a broken foot bleeding I clawed at her head
"The mirror tumbled on me," I cried
"...but it wasn't my fault" I lied
Spent my whole life neurotic and fat
Now i'm just a three-legged cat
Doctor said "we'll have to amputate that"
so now i'm just a three-legged cat
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I saw Mark Kozelek live in 2004, and this is one of my favorite songs from Old Ramon. Good job, AT!
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Everyone should also check out another great cat song called "Chester" by the band Essex Green. Such a good song and a great sing along too. Lyrics are as follows:
On my way home
I sometimes wonder, "Where have you gone?"
Unattached, you wander alone,
lookin' for what, nobody knows
And you've got so much love
You bring it home in bundles of blood
To my doorstep, to my doorstep, yeah
Doo doo doo doo doo doo...
And it's a funny world out there
When your preying from your lair
And it's a funny world out there...
And if your neighbors could talk
They'd talk you up as the king of the block
Clapping hands with the rest of the lot, six fingered friend, right at the end
And in the end it will be
We'll hear your voice till eternity
Always cryin'
Your friends are dyin', yeah
Doo doo doo doo doo doo...
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Joni Mitchell's "Man From Mars" is about her cat, Nietzsche.
Story here: http://www.kakool.com/content/joni-mitchell-man-mars
Lyrics here: http://jonimitchell.com/musician/song.cfm?id=ManFromMars
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the weakerthans songs are defiantly better...
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This song made me get a little teary - sounds like he's singing about my kitty.
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