Dog Days Are Over by Florence And The Machine song meanings, music video interpretations, comments and interesting facts can be found out below.
Song Lyrics
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
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming so you better run
Run fast for your mother run fast for your father
Run for your children and your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Can’t carry it with you if you want to survive
The dog days are over
the dog days are done
Can’t you hear the horses
Cuz here they come
And I never wanted anything from you
Except everything you had
and what was left after that too. oh.
Happiness it hurt like a bullet in the mind
Struck from a great height
by someone who should know better than that
The dog days are over
The dog days are gone
can you hear the horses
Cuz here they come
Run fast for your mother and fast for your father
Run for your children for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Can’t carry it with you if you want to survive
The dog days are over
The dog days are gone
Can you hear the horses because here they come
The dog days are over
The dog days are gone
Can you hear the horses because here they come
Song Comment #1
I feel there is a really deep meaning associated with this song. Listening to the lyrics carefully suggests that the song is about a girl who wants desperately to not fall in love but eventually succumbs to the temptation as it is inevitable.
Now, she ends that relationship for some reason and after the hard times of falling in love and the pain associated with it (here referred to as the Dog Days) are over, she runs hard to be with her mother, father and others who she really cares for.
The singer has compared love and the pain of being in a relationship with “being hit like a train on the track” and “a bullet in the head”, which is absolutely amazing to say the least.
The lines “She hid around corners and she hid under beds She killed it with kisses and from it she fled” also imply that the singer is trying desperately to run away from her lover whom she once loved more than her life.