Released: October 12, 1987
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
I want a dog, a chihuahua
When I get back to my small flat
I want to hear somebody bark
Oh, you can get lonely
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Don't want a cat
Scratching its claws all over my habitat
Giving no love and getting fat
Oh, you can get lonely
And a cat's no help with that
[Interlude]
[Bridge: Chris Lowe]
"Bulldog, hound and pug, and Labrador
Collie, retriever and Doberman pincher
Husky, dalmatian, Saint Bernard und dachshund
Mongrel, beagle, Cocker spaniel"
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
I want a dog to walk in the park
When it gets dark my dog will bark at any passers-by
Oh, you can get lonely
I want a dog
[Interlude]
[Verse 4: Neil Tennant]
I want a dog, a chihuahua
When I get back to my small flat
I want to hear somebody bark
Oh, you can get lonely
I want a dog, a chihuahua
When I get back to my small flat
I want to hear somebody bark
Oh, you can get lonely
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Don't want a cat
Scratching its claws all over my habitat
Giving no love and getting fat
Oh, you can get lonely
And a cat's no help with that
[Interlude]
[Bridge: Chris Lowe]
"Bulldog, hound and pug, and Labrador
Collie, retriever and Doberman pincher
Husky, dalmatian, Saint Bernard und dachshund
Mongrel, beagle, Cocker spaniel"
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
I want a dog to walk in the park
When it gets dark my dog will bark at any passers-by
Oh, you can get lonely
I want a dog
[Interlude]
[Verse 4: Neil Tennant]
I want a dog, a chihuahua
When I get back to my small flat
I want to hear somebody bark
Oh, you can get lonely
more tracks from the album
Actually: Further Listening 1987 – 1988
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Shopping
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Extended Mix) [12" Version]
- Always on My Mind (Dub Mix)
- I Want to Wake Up (Breakdown Mix)
- One More Chance [7" Version]
- Heart (Disco Remix) [12" Version]
- Always on My Mind (Demo)
- Rent [7" Version]
- Always on My Mind (Dance Mix) [12" Version]
- Do I Have To?
- Heart
- A New Life
- Hit Music
- Heart (Shep Pettibone Version)
- One More Chance
- It Couldn’t Happen Here
- I Want to Wake Up
- You Know Where You Went Wrong
- King’s Cross
- It’s a Sin
- It’s a Sin (Disco Mix) [12" Version]
- Rent
- I Want a Dog (B-Side Version)
From the albums
- Alternative (1995)
- Actually: Further Listening 1987 – 1988 (2001)
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future