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Took The Dog For A Long Walk

by Mortimer, Be Quiet.

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“Took the Dog for A Long Walk” is the final single before the release of my second album. It’s the first song proper on the track-list, and that’s because I wanted it to start with a bang (or rather lull you into a bang…that’ll make sense later)

The main piano phrase was something I wrote accidentally on a late night wrapping up my thesis. Over the years it grew and grew into a beast quite fantastic and fairly deranged.

Time signatures bubble and toil through jaunty manic shifts, narrating the self-sabotage of intrusive thoughts and suburban anxieties.

Walks along the street are serenaded by accordion and flute, children playing are interrupted by cars driving and hoards of barking dogs. A spaghetti-western shootout ends on an apocalyptic waltz.

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lyrics

Nudge my shin
Stomp my toe
Shake the leash
And follow
Please don't bite
And we'll go
Now you whine
Oh no

Took the dog for a long walk
Dodge the neighbours as they talk
Took the dog for a long walk
While they talk...They talk

Took the dog for a long walk
Dodge the neighbours as they talk
Trimmed they hedges
While they spoke
Watchful eye of the old folk

Took the dog for a long walk
Lemon drop and a kumquat
Mind the gossip that they thought
Tripped the mailbox, a fox trot

Broke the joke of a strange bloke
Plowed the streets with a new hoax
Plead and beg with the grocer
Swat away with a no sir!

Took the dog for a long walk
Dodge the neighbours as they talk
Took the dog for a long walk
While they talk...They talk

Toddler over yonder
Lil scallywag
Dancin under toe of a sleepy hag
Kids on the street
With their jagged teeth
Gettin into trouble
All through the week

Rip a scallywag playing patty-cake
While the leash is pulling
Wind is really blowing
On a merry weather
The sun is merely yawning

Tear your filthy mud rat
From the morning
Please i beg your pardon
Stop tearing up the garden

It's time to go home
It's time to go home
Who could've known
Who could've known
It's time to go home

So go fetch your bone
Oh,go fetch your bone
It's time to go home

credits

released November 10, 2023
James Knott - Vocals, Piano, Accordion, Programming
Anh Phung - Flute
Alan Mackie - Upright Bass

Written and Arranged by - James Knott
Produced by - James Knott
Mixed and Mastered by - Wayne and James Knott

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Mortimer, Be Quiet. Toronto, Ontario

Mortimer, Be Quiet. is the musical project of emerging Toronto based artist James Knott. Named after their creaky-voiced grump of a piano, Mortimer. looks to make deliriously off-kilter oddball pop music; with the masochistically wry confessional awareness of a singer-songwriter, but the absurdity of a mad scientist desperately seeking satisfaction (and never finding it). ... more

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