Sometimes things Sting

Sometimes things Sting—but it’s probably not about you. I love this little ditty by STING from years ago. Puppy and human have a wonderful love—and life—together. All is swell... until it’s not: Male (human) lover enters the mix [my interpretation].

When do we think it’s about us?

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...

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

It takes more than biscuit, baby, to chase these blues away

I've got a long enough leash

I could almost hang myself

It's a dogs life loving you baby

But you love someone else

Now he's moved my basket

I'd like to put him in a casket

I'll wear my best collar to his funeral...

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

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