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Dog comes howling up behind you
Sinks his teeth in your leg
Tells you how now things are going to be a little different
And he takes you down a peg
You make him ashamed for you
He buys you a new dress
Because you make him ashamed for you
And he'd like you to look your best
So you change, oh, oh, oh
So you change, oh, oh, oh
So you change, oh, oh, oh
And the dog bites down a little harder
Somewhere out in the wild, wild west
That silly little thing that we tossed, tossed, tossed
Somehow now we don't talk about nothing else
But that silly little thing that we lost, that we lost, that we lost
And now there's no name for you
Come to find out none of that shit was even true
But now there's no name for you
I understand that you lost that too
When you change, oh, oh, oh
When you change, oh, oh, oh
When you change, oh, oh, oh
And the dog bites down a little harder
Change
Change
Change
Change
Man said, "Woman, I'm a little tired of you"
And she said, "Don't leave me, baby, I'll do anything you want me to"
And he said, "Can't you do something about the mess around this place?"
She said, "Anything, baby, anything, I can cover my face"
You make him ashamed for you
He buys you a new dress
‘Cause you make him ashamed for you
In your nakedness
So you change, oh, oh, oh
And you change, oh, oh, oh
And you change, oh, oh, oh
And you change, you change, you change, change
Change
Change
Change
Change
Change
And the dog bites down a little harder
| planet3one9 (seattle) | Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 22:48 I think this is her best album and this is one of the good tracks |
| Quasicoonass (Georgia) | Posted: Apr 21, 2013 - 06:12 Yea! It never gets old....  |
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 08:58 Like it in a big way! |
| skyguy (CO) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 10:52 "We can get you ten dimes for a dollar, or four quarters. People ask us how we make a profit?The answer is simple-VOLUME!" |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 22:17 One of my favorite tunes of hers. |
| akiml (Cambridge, MA) | Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 13:34 Patty Griffin slays me every time! |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 21:12 bump natural_tools wrote: While listening to this tonight in the car, I suddenly stopped hearing the "you change" parts as a repeating chorus and started hearing them as a long catalog of every single instance of compromising your(her)self. The song was already powerful to me, but wow, how overwhelming is that... you change and you change and you change, you change, you change |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Nov 15, 2012 - 08:01 amoreena wrote: Saw her with Robert Plant, who told the rapt audience that Patty was the best female vocalist in America. What he said. Who? |
| fedtho (Switzerland) | Posted: Nov 06, 2012 - 11:20 Byronape wrote: While nothing on the internet really matters generally, proper spelling will keep others from automatically assuming that you are an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's clear when someone at least makes an effort and who doesn't. The only exception would be people who do not speak/write English as a native language. Besides, it's a good habit to get into. Nothing irritates me more than getting emails from co-workers and friends that contain all kind of spelling errors. In the days where any good browser has a spell check option built in, there's no excuse for not putting in the effort to make your point as clear and concise as you can. After all, if it's important enough to post, that means you want people to read it. If it has a bunch of misspelled words, people will stop before the end. Have a little self respect and make at least half an effort. Hey Byronape, You are summing up really well many feelings I have about correct spelling. I might quote your lines. I hope you don't mind. Congratulations, again.  |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 13:37 Byronape wrote: While nothing on the internet really matters generally, proper spelling will keep others from automatically assuming that you are an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's clear when someone at least makes an effort and who doesn't. The only exception would be people who do not speak/write English as a native language. Besides, it's a good habit to get into. Nothing irritates me more than getting emails from co-workers and friends that contain all kind of spelling errors. In the days where any good browser has a spell check option built in, there's no excuse for not putting in the effort to make your point as clear and concise as you can. After all, if it's important enough to post, that means you want people to read it. If it has a bunch of misspelled words, people will stop before the end. Have a little self respect and make at least half an effort. Language is flexible. The norm today won't be recognized in 100 years. Relax. If t'were so, then it will be but a memery. Life is a crewl reminder of the sadness of loss. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 15:00 Byronape wrote: While nothing on the internet really matters generally, proper spelling will keep others from automatically assuming that you are an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's clear when someone at least makes an effort and who doesn't. The only exception would be people who do not speak/write English as a native language. Besides, it's a good habit to get into. Nothing irritates me more than getting emails from co-workers and friends that contain all kind of spelling errors. In the days where any good browser has a spell check option built in, there's no excuse for not putting in the effort to make your point as clear and concise as you can. After all, if it's important enough to post, that means you want people to read it. If it has a bunch of misspelled words, people will stop before the end. Have a little self respect and make at least half an effort. Ay yai yai...where to begin. I'll just say that language fascism, and especially spelling fasism, is a cruel, evil, and oppressive institution, entirely based on power and money, that literally condems millions, nay billions of people around the world to abject poverty. Some leftist you are! No, I am not joking, being provocative, or being a troll. I believe this with all my hart and sole!! |
| GawgaBoy (State of Confusion) | Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 14:56 I'm SOOOOO excited... Patty is going on a solo tour, an acoustic performance and I have two tickets to see her at Eddie Owen's Red Clay Theater near Atlanta. Come on October ! |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 14:54 Always liked hearing this song and didn't note until now that it was Patty Griffin ——— who I thought I didn't like. |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 14:53 gypsyman wrote: This kicks major ass. Yuppers ! |
| dc_zee | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 13:59 LizK wrote: Oh, are we here again? He buys a new dress, takes awhile to understand why. My ex bought me a car, part of his long-range plan. See? Songs really can tell you a story. Or your story. Patty and this song are just so good. So good, well great.  Bows on gifts aren't always strings, but they make for some interesting songs when they are. One of my favorites is PJ Harvey's "Dress". |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 12:32 This kicks major ass. |
| dew34 (Wisconsin-quite woodsy) | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 14:58 gemtag wrote: Well sad. I second, perhaps third.  |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Jun 15, 2012 - 13:58 Byronape wrote: While nothing on the internet really matters generally, proper spelling will keep others from automatically assuming that you are an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's clear when someone at least makes an effort and who doesn't. The only exception would be people who do not speak/write English as a native language. Besides, it's a good habit to get into. Nothing irritates me more than getting emails from co-workers and friends that contain all kind of spelling errors. In the days where any good browser has a spell check option built in, there's no excuse for not putting in the effort to make your point as clear and concise as you can. After all, if it's important enough to post, that means you want people to read it. If it has a bunch of misspelled words, people will stop before the end. Have a little self respect and make at least half an effort. Well sad. |
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Apr 14, 2012 - 22:15 Oh, are we here again? He buys a new dress, takes awhile to understand why. My ex bought me a car, part of his long-range plan. See? Songs really can tell you a story. Or your story. Patty and this song are just so good. So good, well great. |
| chyk5 (Florida) | Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 08:08 Byronape wrote: While nothing on the internet really matters generally, proper spelling will keep others from automatically assuming that you are an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's clear when someone at least makes an effort and who doesn't. The only exception would be people who do not speak/write English as a native language. Besides, it's a good habit to get into. Nothing irritates me more than getting emails from co-workers and friends that contain all kind of spelling errors. In the days where any good browser has a spell check option built in, there's no excuse for not putting in the effort to make your point as clear and concise as you can. After all, if it's important enough to post, that means you want people to read it. If it has a bunch of misspelled words, people will stop before the end. Have a little self respect and make at least half an effort. I was attempting, in perhaps an unsuccessfully humorous way, to point out Horstman's overreaction to Wonderlove's post. Unlike you, I don't assume that an individual is an idiot, or more importantly lacks self-respect (!), because they've misspelled a few words on a music forum. As this issue seems to irritate you so much, if venting that frustration online is a form of therapy, that's a good thing. |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 18:41 chyk5 wrote: Perhaps that is something you should werk (oops!) to overcum (oops-damn!) While nothing on the internet really matters generally, proper spelling will keep others from automatically assuming that you are an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it's clear when someone at least makes an effort and who doesn't. The only exception would be people who do not speak/write English as a native language. Besides, it's a good habit to get into. Nothing irritates me more than getting emails from co-workers and friends that contain all kind of spelling errors. In the days where any good browser has a spell check option built in, there's no excuse for not putting in the effort to make your point as clear and concise as you can. After all, if it's important enough to post, that means you want people to read it. If it has a bunch of misspelled words, people will stop before the end. Have a little self respect and make at least half an effort. |
| houston (Tsawwassen B.C.) | Posted: Mar 17, 2012 - 22:10 Good gracious woman |
| amoreena (west whatnot) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 09:22 Saw her with Robert Plant, who told the rapt audience that Patty was the best female vocalist in America. What he said. |
| chyk5 (Florida) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 09:21 horstman wrote: Probably not, but I get pretty passionate about spelling. Take your time on the keyboard. It is the new pen and voice of the internet. Perhaps that is something you should werk (oops!) to overcum (oops-damn!) |
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 09:19 This song still has the same punch and immediacy as it did the first time I heard it years ago. 8 to a 10. Its become on of those songs in my haid now. |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 09:06 GawgaBoy wrote: I'm curious.... was it really necessary to be rude and condescending? |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 09:00 Good god this chorus is soooo painful Chahhahahahahahahnge the station....... :( |
| GrooVy (Planet Earth, Mainly...) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 17:28 Change is a good thing! She has a really good voice for a chick too! =) |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 14:44 cc_rider wrote: Oh yeah, one more thing: she can rock your face clean off. Bump |
| Sasha2001 (I can see Zabars from my window) | Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 22:04 horstman wrote: First off, you don't know how to spell. Either that or you're so busy trying to get your point off, you forgot to proof your post. It's Sheryl. And second, two totally different styles. Love both these ladies, but Sheryl was the best early in her career and Patty is better on the tail end of hers. Sheryl is more introspective and quite frankly, made a hell of lot more money and fame than Patty. Does it make her a better artist? Quite arguable. But they are both quite good. I just wouldn't listen to Sheryl today whereas I hang on everything Patty does. No artist can lay claim to the countrified rock and gospel sound evident in both Pattie's and Sheryl's work. I guess you could point out that Sheryl started her career a little before Patti so she's not really stealing from her. But (I hope) neither of these great talents is at the tail end of their careers. They're not actresses who have to stay looking young in order to keep working. |
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 21:44 This always sets me to moving. Great voice, great song. Go Patty.  |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 06:12 I've just read Sara Paretsky's novel Body Work, and this song immediately makes me think of Paretsky's feminist heroine VI Warshawski. That's a good thing :) |
| GawgaBoy (State of Confusion) | Posted: Nov 06, 2011 - 09:24 horstman wrote: First off, you don't know how to spell. Either that or you're so busy trying to get your point off, you forgot to proof your post. It's Sheryl. And second, two totally different styles. Love both these ladies, but Sheryl was the best early in her career and Patty is better on the tail end of hers. Sheryl is more introspective and quite frankly, made a hell of lot more money and fame than Patty. Does it make her a better artist? Quite arguable. But they are both quite good. I just wouldn't listen to Sheryl today whereas I hang on everything Patty does. I'm curious.... was it really necessary to be rude and condescending? |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 20:12 wonderlove99 wrote: Has Sherly Crow been ripping this woman off for the last 10 years??? First off, you don't know how to spell. Either that or you're so busy trying to get your point off, you forgot to proof your post. It's Sheryl. And second, two totally different styles. Love both these ladies, but Sheryl was the best early in her career and Patty is better on the tail end of hers. Sheryl is more introspective and quite frankly, made a hell of lot more money and fame than Patty. Does it make her a better artist? Quite arguable. But they are both quite good. I just wouldn't listen to Sheryl today whereas I hang on everything Patty does. |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 19:39 bump natural_tools wrote: While listening to this tonight in the car, I suddenly stopped hearing the "you change" parts as a repeating chorus and started hearing them as a long catalog of every single instance of compromising your(her)self. The song was already powerful to me, but wow, how overwhelming is that... you change and you change and you change, you change, you change |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 19:26 You all should have been at the Mercy Lounge a few weeks ago —- Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, PAtty Griffin and about 50 of Nashville Music Row's most famous artists were there and we was rockin'! |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 19:23 gypsyman wrote: quaditto Quintitto! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Oct 23, 2011 - 21:24 coy wrote: Ditto. triple ditto quaditto |
| SynapseRider (ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha) | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 07:36 6 -> 7 |
| linz_bobinz (the city of the newly wed & the nearly dead) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 17:58  wonderlove99 wrote: Has Sherly Crow been ripping this woman off for the last 10 years??? |
| wonderlove99 (Out Here Somewhere...) | Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 15:49 Has Sherly Crow been ripping this woman off for the last 10 years??? |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 21:28 Krispian wrote: This song gives me chills. A knockout punch of disturbing subject matter and the astounding dexterity of Patty's voice. Ditto. triple ditto |
| gillespp (Portland, OR) | Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 16:16 Krispian wrote: This song gives me chills. A knockout punch of disturbing subject matter and the astounding dexterity of Patty's voice. Ditto. |
| ckcotton | Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 16:15 ckcotton wrote: CHAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAANNNNNNN GGGGGEEEE the song.... just terrible PLEEEEEAAAASEEEEEEE PLEEEEEEAAAASSSEEEEE PLEAAAASSSSEEEEE!!!!!! |
| ckcotton | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 12:56 CHAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAANNNNNNN GGGGGEEEE the song.... just terrible |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 11:51 james_of_tucson wrote: I will go as far as to say she is a much stronger performing artist than her recordings capture. I agree. It's almost like she has to hold it back when she's recording. Her live performances are emotionally exhausting. In a good way. |
| james_of_tucson (Tucson AZ) | Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 13:42 gatorade wrote: A powerful voice that she controls perfectly. She puts on a rockin live show. I will go as far as to say she is a much stronger performing artist than her recordings capture. |
| gatorade (Peninsuland) | Posted: Jun 19, 2011 - 19:43 A powerful voice that she controls perfectly. She puts on a rockin live show. |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 15:54 This song gives me chills. A knockout punch of disturbing subject matter and the astounding dexterity of Patty's voice. |
| Dave_Mack (That's my audience, all right) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 15:44 rabbi_phil wrote: ??????????????nice try?????????????????????better luck next time????????????????????  (it's o.k. i understand. you didn't get the post, thats allright, maybe next time) was that snarky? its was wasn't it. almost sorry about that, but not quite. I think he understood the post just fine. It's just the super-wide unbreakable text that borks the page, so he was trying to get it far enough into the past to not do that. For me, I got it, 'cause I don't get how anybody can't think this is god-like. |