Wop-A-Din-Din

Red House Painters

A love song to a house cat. Love this acoustic guitar and serenade.

Thoughts of our pets moves me today. That unconditional love, the tenderness — you can feel it in Kozelek’s vocal and in this recording.

And that beautiful little duet refrain at 2:18 in Spanish means:

she is very vital
sadder than sunrise
pure as water ❤️

Sedona, our Vizsla — our first queen — was with us thirteen years. I still dream about her.

And Rosie was buried in our backyard two years ago during the pandemic. Flannery picked her out when she was four.  ❤️❤️

She's got big green eyes
And a long Egyptian face
She moves across the floor
At her own pace
When I'm here in bed
She'll jump up on my chest
And when we lock eyes there's so much love
I wanna cry

She comes in near
When I scratch under her ear
And she lifts her head
When I kiss around her neck

Won't go to sleep
When she falls along my side
And two green eyes fade
To a porcelain marble white
And somehow when I sleep
She'll end up at my feet
And if I roll and kick her out
I might knock her to the ground
But she'll come back anyhow

Ella es muy vital
Mas triste que salir el sol
Pura como el agua

The morning comes
She squints up to shield out the sun
And she'll go and lay
In the warmest dusty rays
And I hold her face
She lays perfectly in place
And she'll yawn and stretch
And stare me down expressionless
And lay back down into her nest

And if someone calls
She'll race me out the hall
When she hears the phone
Then she knows I'm leaving home
She don't wanna be alone

And I know it's wrong
That I'm going away so long
And for her it's rough
I can't be with her enough
But I'll never give her enough

Ella es muy vital
Mas triste que salir el sol
Pura como el agua

And somehow when I sleep
She'll end up at my feet
And if I roll and kick her out
I might knock her to the ground
But she'll come back anyhow