Call Me a Dog - Temple of the Dog

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Call Me a Dog Lyrics

You call me a dog well that's fair enough
'Cause it ain't no use to pretend you're wrong
When you call me out I can't hide anymore
I have no disguise you can't see through

Well you say it's bad luck to have fallen for me
Well what can I say to make it good for you
You wore me out like an old winter coat
Trying to be safe from the cold

Oh, but when it's my time
To throw the next stone
I'll call you beautiful if I call at all

You call me a dog, you tell me I'm low
'Cause I've slept on the floor
And out in the woods with the badgers and wolves
You threw me out 'cause I went digging for gold
And I came home with a handful of coal

But when it's my time
To throw the next stone
I'll call you beautiful if I call at all

And when it's my time
To call your bluff
I'll call you beautiful
Or leave it alone, yeah

You call me a dog, well that's fair enough
It doesn't bother me as long as you know
But bad luck will follow you if you keep me on a leash
And you drag me along

And when it's my time
To throw the next stone
I'll call you beautiful if I call at all, yeah

And when it's my time
To call your bluff
I'll call you beautiful
Or leave it alone, yeah

You call me a dog

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Temple of the Dog was formed in 1990 by Soundgarden's Chris Cornell as a tribute to the late Andrew Wood, frontman of Seattle, Washington rock group Mother Love Bone after Wood died of a heroin overdose. Cornell, Wood's close friend and roommate, helmed the project, which took its name from a lyric in the Mother Love Bone song, "Man of Golden Words." The band also included Soundgarden's drummer Matt Cameron, Wood's former bandmates Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, and lead guitarist Mike McCready . Eddie Vedder, at the time auditioning for the position of vocalist in Pearl Jam, also provided co-lead and background vocals on several songs. One song Vedder provided co-lead vocals on was Hunger Strike, which became the band's biggest hit. Ament, Gossard, McCready, and Vedder formed Pearl Jam not long after recording for Temple of the Dog. Interestingly, Cameron went on to become Pearl Jam's drummer over half a decade later.

The album was originally released on April 16, 1991 to little fanfare, only selling around 70,000 copies, but in the summer of 1992, the album received new attention. Though the album had been released more than a year earlier, A&M Records realized that they had in their catalog what was essentially a collaboration between Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, who had both risen to mainstream attention in the months since the album's release due to the growing popularity of grunge music. A&M decided to re-issue the album and promote "Hunger Strike" as a single, with the video subsequently entering heavy rotation on MTV. The attention allowed both the album and single to chart on Billboard. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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