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This was the 98th song recorded for the album. I was so OVER the album at this point but I still needed a few more songs and I knew I had some in me. This was written and recorded deep into me having this truly awful restaurant job with terrible terrible owners who ignored all of our desperate demands to make the workplace slightly more tolerable. And then on this one miserable day, Alex Turner comes up to the window to order. His accent is so thick and when he says his name is Alex to confirm his identity, I feel like I’m ten years old again. Right before he finishes ordering, I gush and tell him Arctic Monkeys was the first concert I ever went to and his music is so important to me. He says something like, “thanks” (thick accent) but was very sweet and definitely TIPPED. This was right before my morning shift ended and usually I would’ve been so exhausted, but the interaction gave me a burst of energy to go home and write and record a song I desperately willed into being good. I think it summed up a lot of where I was at, feeling like I had gone through this unimaginable, unexplainable, surreal experience of love and heartbreak that no one could possibly understand. And then remembering that not only is this just a normal human experience, but people have been writing songs about it since forever. Now I view the pain after my breakup as such a gift, because it means I really opened myself up to giving and receiving love.

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I thought I journeyed far and wide,
where the poets couldn’t reach
I was sure, what my soul explored,
no teacher could teach
But it’s just ordinary sadness that I feel
and nothing in this world is quite as real, uh huh

I wrote songs, singing all day long
as if I had seen it all
I could swear what they saw down there
was a shadow on a wall
And it was only I who had seen the sky
that I could not explain
Till you laughed and said,
“All the living and the dead have felt your pain
cuz it’s just ordinary sadness that you feel
and nothing in this world is quite as real, uh huh”

I would run from the pain I felt,
there was no escape
Now I stand and I stare it down in its stupid face
cuz it’s just ordinary sadness, after all
and we are all but shadows on a wall

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from The First Songs in the World, released February 3, 2023

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Where Is Your Dog Now? Los Angeles, California

Where Is Your Dog Now? is an alt-rock music project by Andrew Haworth based in Los Angeles. He has recorded hundreds of songs since its inception. Each album is a “greatest hits” compilation of these songs, constructed in large part based on feedback given by his mother. Haworth experiments with a wide range of genres, but most of his songs end up sounding like power-pop, and that's okay. ... more

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