Animals

By Alex G

On Trick

Released on November 6, 2012

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[Verse 1]

I get sick when I get stoned

Everything we do, we do it alone

I get sick when I get stoned

Everything we do, we do it alone


[Pre-Chorus]

Rosie is my favorite dog

Takes her piss on the neighbor's lawn

Rosie is my favorite dog

Bites my hand when I go wrong


[Chorus]

I do

Animals, not people

I do animals

Not people

I do


[Verse 2]

Who's that walking down your stairs?

Double-check there's something there

Who's that walking down your stairs?

Double-check there's something there


[Pre-Chorus]

Rosie told me not to cry

Look her in her big brown eyes

Hold her tight and feel no pain

Her dog breath drives me insane


[Chorus]

I do

Animals, not people

I do animals

Not people

I do

“I do Animals, not people I do animals Not people I do”
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Alex much prefers his animal companions rather than confiding in other people

“I do Animals, not people I do animals Not people I do”
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the narrator only spends time with his dog rosie. and never people.

“I get sick when I get stoned”
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the narrator is deemed to be a drug addict, and gets sick when they take certain substances.

“Everything we do, we do it alone”
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the narrator is referring to themself and their dog, rosie. as in “everything we do, we do it alone”— nobody else is with them when they do anything together, all the time.

“Her dog breath drives me insane”
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The narrator is beginning to slip off the edge, Rosie is slowly becoming not enough to keep his suicidal temptations at bay.

“Rosie is my favorite dog Bites my hand when I go wrong”
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“Rosie” (an english mastiff with birth defects as stated in an alex g interveiw) senses that alex g gets aggressive or emotionally unstable and nips at his hand to snap him out of it

“Takes her piss on the neighbor’s lawn”
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I guess she brings buckets of piss onto the neighbours lawn.

“I get sick when I get stoned”
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the narrator is deemed to be a drug addict, and gets sick when they take certain substances.

“Rosie told me not to cry Look her in her big brown eyes”
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This is most likely the result of his drug use mixed with his trust in animals.

“Rosie is my favorite dog”
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2:47 of this interview would suggest otherwise

“Hold her tight and feel no pain”
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The speaker, most likely Alex, feels so comfortable around dogs, specifically Rosie, that he seems to forget about the pain he feels mentally and physically.

“Everything we do, we do it alone”
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the narrator is referring to themself and their dog, rosie. as in “everything we do, we do it alone”— nobody else is with them when they do anything together, all the time.

“Who’s that walking down your stairs? Double-check there’s something there Who’s that walking down your stairs? Double-check there’s something there”
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Most likely expressing the sense of paranoia felt by Alex after using drugs. A theme brought up in other songs like Mary, when he expresses how “Mary” tells him “I am real and you are not”