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Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back Struck from a great height By someone who should know better than that. The dog days are over The dog days are done The horses are coming So you better run. Share this Article. Plays well with these activities If you liked that article, take a look at these.
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If you do not currently have more details or would like to provide them later, click the Send button now! No Yes. It annoyed me for a long time hearing this at weddings. However what it feels to me is urgent. Urgency is conveyed in the chorus when she talks about running. Musically it gives an urgent feel as well.
The pacing is very quick and alert. She is running for her life and possibly the lives of others. To me it describes a toxic or even abusive relationship. The relationship was quick bullet in the back and surprising. But also violent, so she runs again chorus for her life. Near the end where she talks about all she wanted was everything is referring to how many victims do have real and complicated feelings toward abusers.
So it conveys that is what she did want, but also she has realized to have that is impossible because it will likely destroy her. Regardless it is beautifully performed and I have been fortunate to see it performed live twice now saw her in Dallas recently for the second time. Just not a wedding song in my eyes. I first heard Dog Days in Glee yeah, I know Anyway, when I first heard Dog Days, I thought it was this happy giddy freedom song.
You see in the Visayas Region of the Philippines we are a 3rd World country , we have a saying "ting bitay og iro" which means "[it's the time of the year] to hang dogs" Because a long time ago, when families literally had nothing left to eat, they'd kill stray dogs and have them as a meal.
That's a long time ago, but the expression stuck with everyone. Business people here use it to refer to the slower and harder days or months of the year when small enterprises and even large ones barely earn any income. So when I first heard of the song, I thought it was about the bad days being over. I thought about how happiness was here and the horses brought with them something new.
I thought that the first line "Happiness hit her like a train on a track" was about how strong happiness is coming for her. That was before I dissected the lyrics I'm a beat and sound kind of girl. Now that I've read and reread the lyrics to the song. My interpretation has changed. Considering most of the band's songs are about abuse, violence and empowerment, I now think this song is about domestic violence or battering.
My new perspective about Dog Days changed when I read that universally, 'dog days' are referred to as happy days. So if you put that to the context of the song its easy to see how its about abuse. The first stanza: "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 a drink And washed it away down the kitchen sink" Technically, one looks for a lover to find happiness.
When you're in a relationship with someone, he or she stands as your happiness. In the song, Her happiness hurts her- he hits her. But she can't leave him stuck still no turning back. She's afraid of him so she hides and she repays his aggression with kisses To forget the pain, she starts drinking The next line which is the chorus just means that her happy days are over, it's gone now and you should run away and leave him horses are coming or else This line: "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 Can't carry it with you if you want to survive" For me this line means that if you can't leave him because you love him, then do it for your parents who raised you will..
That part about "leave all your love and longing behind you, can't carry it with you if you want to survive" - is why I realized this song is about domestic violence. The victims of domestic violence, most of them women, can't leave their husbands or partners because of this belief that if she stays he will get better or that she loves him too much etc. This song tells us to leave those thoughts behind, leave this guy you 'love', whatever 'longing' you have, leave it too.
Leave it all if you want to survive. And the last line that cements my new interpretation: "Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back Struck from a great height By someone who should know better than that" The writers want to clearly tell us that this girl never expected to be hurt or beaten bullet in the back. This guy the batterer is probably someone you wouldn't expect to do any harm someone who should know better than that. So there, my new perspective!
I think this song, much like Vienna Teng's "Stray Italian Greyhound", is about falling in love without realizing and being surprised and confused by it, maybe even a bit afraid for not knowing how to deal with it. And then the narrator says she was finally "defeated" by someone who should be more considerate than to disregard all her reservations and limitations and give her no room to escape, knowing that she was so terrified and that she maybe considered falling in love a bad thing, something she didn't want and resisted with all her might.
I'm sorry did I say God? Must be a habit I picked up from Tori I digress. The dog days. Happiness, hit her like a train on a track. There was an error. I absolutely agree with your thought. Very nice.. General Comment The humdrum drudgery's done and the good times are here at last! But be quick! Grab it while you can and leave everything else behind. So lets all dress up, go in to the woods and dance. On the radio she explained what the song actually meant. She said, "Before I became a singer me and my friend had to make a living by walking dogs.
Until one day I was discovered and I finally made my dream job came true! I think it has sense the fact that she used to work with the dogs before she became a singer.
When I didn't know that reading the lyrics I imagined that the person the happiness came finally to her like the force of the train and once is into her is not turning back. Befooore, she tried to find it, or when she though was closed she scared run away from it, she drunk a lot to avoid the emptiness of her lack of happiness "she sank with her drink".
I think the dogs is the representation of the dependence, and the horse the representation of freedom and courage. So for any reason those days of dependence are over and gone and the horses are coming, one can imagine the impression of the horses running towards oneself soo fast, as the happiness that is coming, the freedom, the change.
Run fast as the horses related to freedom and courage for your mother, father, for your children, sisters and brothers I imagine is the fact that one have to think finally for all the people that one love one have to love his life the same way, because of all that love that we have for those we love are you following me?
The happiness has come so she just have to go straight to it without hesitating for all in her appreciated life. That's my opinion General Comment The phrase 'dog days' means a period of madness originally because when it got too hot in summer all wine and milk would go bad, dogs and people would go nuts, you get the jist from my understanding of the lyrics, its about running from something bad, it sounds to me like a girl with a violent or aggressive partner she loved to bits, 'she hid around corners and she hid under beds, she killed it wth kisses and from it she fled' i presume the happiness hitting her is the moment she realises she can escape the horrible life she has with this person who she may have been too frightened to leave before becuase she loved them Struck from a great height by someone who should know better than that' running for all the other members of your family is a way of remembering other people love you, being that florence has sang other songs about violent relationships i think this might be right.
So you finally told them about me, eh? And I'll keep bothering you motherfucker because I'm motherfucking iots, and it's what I do, wooooo! This is interpretation is exactly how I have understood the song. In fact that's the only context I've ever heard it be used in DO YA? Plazzyt on August 06, Lol Plazzyt on August 06, I just got out of an abusive relationship and can completely relate to this song and the psychology behind it.
To me, this song is about a woman who finally gets the courage to leave an abusive relationship, but then her abusive partner finds her and kills her.
That's why the video's setting is in a heavenly place and happiness is "hitting her like a train on a track" and a "bullet in her back. She left, finally on her way to "happiness," but he found her and was "coming towards her. That's why she was "stuck and there was no turning back.
She drank to numb the pain physical and emotional and cope "with every bubble she sank with a drink.
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