Released: September 27, 1999
Featuring: Sté Strausz
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: Kipper Sting
[Verse]
I've had a question that's been preying on my mind for some time
I won't be wagging my tail for one good reason
It has to be a crime
This dog house never was the place for me
Runner up and second best just ain't my pedigree
I was so happy, just the two of us
Until this alpha male
Turned up in the January sale
He won't love you
Like I love you
It won't be long now before that puppy goes astray
And what I like about this guy the most
He'd be my favourite lamp post
Devil take the hindmost
[Interlude - Sté Strausz]
Je sais que c'est dur, mais il faut se faire au changement, tu vois
J'ai neglige le primordial pendant trop longtemps crois moi
Je suis consciente, je vois bien que tu souffres, mais a s'attenuera
Car c'est d'un homme plus d'un chien don't j'ai besoin pres de moi
Cesse donc de grogner, mon choix est fait c'est comme a
N'en fait pas trop, ton attitude risque de t'eloigner de moi
Faut que tu comprennes, puisque tu dis m'aimer tant que a
Desormais nous sommes trois, lui toi et moi
It's a shaggy kind of story
Would I tell you if I thought it was a lie?
But when the cat's away the mouse will play
I wouldn't dish around here
There's something fishy 'round here
I howl all night and I sleep all day
Take more than a biscuit, baby, to chase these blues away
I've got a long enough leash
I could almost hang myself
It's a dog's life loving you baby
But you love someone else
And now he's moved my basket
I'd like to put him in a casket
I'll wear my best collar to his funeral
[Interlude - Sté Strausz]
Ta mauvaise foi, j'aimerais bien que ça s'arrete
Me separer de toi, aujourd'hui ça trotte dans ma tete
Moi non, j'en peux plus, tu n'est q'un chien, c'est trop bete
La situation m'avait pourtant l'air d'etre des plus nette
C'est clair, que je l'aime c'est un fait, ton egoïsme m'inquiete
Apres toutes ces soirees passées seuls en tete a tete
Chaque chose a une fin, et c'est la fin de la fête
Pour toi, car bientôt il n'y aura plus que lui et moi, lui et moi
[Chorus]
You said I wasn't just your Christmas toy
I'd always be your boy
I'd be your faithful companion
And I would follow you through every thick and thin
Don't need nobody else
And we don't need him
[Bridge]
To have found this perfect life
And a perfect love so strong
Well there can't be nothing worse
Than a perfect love gone wrong
[Chorus]
[Outro]
To have found this perfect life
And a perfect love so strong
Well there can't be nothing worse
Than a perfect love gone wrong
I've had a question that's been preying on my mind for some time
I won't be wagging my tail for one good reason
It has to be a crime
This dog house never was the place for me
Runner up and second best just ain't my pedigree
I was so happy, just the two of us
Until this alpha male
Turned up in the January sale
He won't love you
Like I love you
It won't be long now before that puppy goes astray
And what I like about this guy the most
He'd be my favourite lamp post
Devil take the hindmost
[Interlude - Sté Strausz]
Je sais que c'est dur, mais il faut se faire au changement, tu vois
J'ai neglige le primordial pendant trop longtemps crois moi
Je suis consciente, je vois bien que tu souffres, mais a s'attenuera
Car c'est d'un homme plus d'un chien don't j'ai besoin pres de moi
Cesse donc de grogner, mon choix est fait c'est comme a
N'en fait pas trop, ton attitude risque de t'eloigner de moi
Faut que tu comprennes, puisque tu dis m'aimer tant que a
Desormais nous sommes trois, lui toi et moi
It's a shaggy kind of story
Would I tell you if I thought it was a lie?
But when the cat's away the mouse will play
I wouldn't dish around here
There's something fishy 'round here
I howl all night and I sleep all day
Take more than a biscuit, baby, to chase these blues away
I've got a long enough leash
I could almost hang myself
It's a dog's life loving you baby
But you love someone else
And now he's moved my basket
I'd like to put him in a casket
I'll wear my best collar to his funeral
[Interlude - Sté Strausz]
Ta mauvaise foi, j'aimerais bien que ça s'arrete
Me separer de toi, aujourd'hui ça trotte dans ma tete
Moi non, j'en peux plus, tu n'est q'un chien, c'est trop bete
La situation m'avait pourtant l'air d'etre des plus nette
C'est clair, que je l'aime c'est un fait, ton egoïsme m'inquiete
Apres toutes ces soirees passées seuls en tete a tete
Chaque chose a une fin, et c'est la fin de la fête
Pour toi, car bientôt il n'y aura plus que lui et moi, lui et moi
[Chorus]
You said I wasn't just your Christmas toy
I'd always be your boy
I'd be your faithful companion
And I would follow you through every thick and thin
Don't need nobody else
And we don't need him
[Bridge]
To have found this perfect life
And a perfect love so strong
Well there can't be nothing worse
Than a perfect love gone wrong
[Chorus]
[Outro]
To have found this perfect life
And a perfect love so strong
Well there can't be nothing worse
Than a perfect love gone wrong
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Brand New Day (1999)
- ...All This Time (2001)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues