Hot Dog

Song for the Romantically Unrequited Ghetto Swing Extreme

words and music by Joey"G-Clef" Cavaseno, featuring Queen Esther

So cold was the day when your love just slipped away... Oh tell me where did it go.... Dear please talk to me, Don't make WE a memory, Your love's the only sure thing that I know. I searched so long for such sweetness in a song.... Tell me why must it end in this key? Your pure melody has used me for harmony, Now we've composed such a sad symphony. Can't you see how deep my love is? Did you care how much you'd hurt me when you'd go? Dear please talk to me, Don't make WE a memory, Your love's the only sure thing that I know.

Here is a rarity among the repertoire of most Neo-Swing bands, a ballad.
This song is a haunting melody expressing lost love at the point of impact.
Queen Esther's reading is perfectly chilling.

This song was originally recorded as an instrumental featuring William Ash on acoustic guitar for the independent film "Stealing Souls" by Marly Narvaez. Marly was in fact my first love, going back to our High School days, and she never knew this, but I actually wrote this song about my feelings at end of our relationship, when I had gone off to college. A few years later, I sneakily stuck it into her film without her awareness of its true meaning, which was sort of my way of presenting it to her in a lasting way. The lyrics and arrangement were added later, for its Hounds' incarnation. I wanted to import a little of the longingness that has become much a part of the pop group, The Carpenters' sound for this arrangement. The melody was influenced by the musical style of Venezuelan folk singer Soledad Bravo, which Marly had introduced me to back in High School. The lyrics were written based on a feeling of being aware that love is imminently slipping out of ones' hands, yet not being able to do much about it, yet we plead with the subject not to leave us....