Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
“Dog Days Are Over” is a single off of Lungs, and is considered the band’s first big hit in both the US and the UK.
This harp-based track is about suddenly finding happiness, and disbelieving that it’s actually there.
According to one interview, the song title comes from an art piece by Ugo Rondin...
[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run
[Chorus]
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
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
'Cause here they come
[Bridge]
And I never wanted anything from you
Except everything you had
And what was left after that too, oh
[Verse 2]
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
Struck from a great height
By someone who should know better than that
[Pre-Chorus]
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
'Cause here they come
[Chorus]
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
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
'Cause here they come
[Outro]
The dog days are over
The dog days are done (Here they come)
The horses are coming
So you better run (Here they come)
The dog days are over
The dog days are done (Here they come)
The horses are coming
So you better run
Dog Days Are Over was written by Isabella Summers & Florence Welch.
Dog Days Are Over was produced by James Ellis Ford.
Florence + the Machine released Dog Days Are Over on Mon Dec 01 2008.
Welch told CultureDeluxe that most of the sounds on this song, “came from a tiny Yamaha keyboard.” Also the percussion sound was “hands on the wall while hitting a drum underneath it at the same time and the beat was really accidental.” She added to BBC Newsbeat:
It was just a song that I did at my...
In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #17 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
It’s hard to imagine a more striking opening gambit than this miniature epic, the first song on Florence + the Machine’s debut album, Lungs. Remixing the baroque concept of Joanna Newsom a...