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Napoleon is Jerry Samuels, a recording engineer from New York City. "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa" is about a guy who goes insane (like, to the funny farm) when his girl leaves him. Except it's not his girl who left - at the end of the song we find out it's his dog when Samuels intones:
They'll put you in the A.S.P.C.A.
You mangy mutt
In a Songfacts interview with Samuels, he explained: "It took me nine months to finish it. I wrote one verse and the chorus, and immediately I realized I was writing a sick joke. So I said, 'This is no good, I'll put it away.' Three months later it was still running through my head; I pulled it out again and wrote the second verse and it was an even sicker joke. Finally about six months after that I decided I was going to finish it, and I was going to do something in that last verse that would throw things off a little bit, so I referred to the object - 'They're coming to take me away because of what YOU did - I referred to YOU as a dog. The dog ran away. By doing that I felt I was lightening the sickness of the joke, and I probably was and it probably did some good for me, but that was the reason I went for that afterthought."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/napoleon-xiv/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-haaa
They'll put you in the A.S.P.C.A.
You mangy mutt
In a Songfacts interview with Samuels, he explained: "It took me nine months to finish it. I wrote one verse and the chorus, and immediately I realized I was writing a sick joke. So I said, 'This is no good, I'll put it away.' Three months later it was still running through my head; I pulled it out again and wrote the second verse and it was an even sicker joke. Finally about six months after that I decided I was going to finish it, and I was going to do something in that last verse that would throw things off a little bit, so I referred to the object - 'They're coming to take me away because of what YOU did - I referred to YOU as a dog. The dog ran away. By doing that I felt I was lightening the sickness of the joke, and I probably was and it probably did some good for me, but that was the reason I went for that afterthought."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/napoleon-xiv/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-haaa
On the internet nobody knows you're a dog.
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I am a dog.
My grandparents were not fully functional adult human beings. Rather they were crazy smart. My parents are artists who usually managed to have day jobs.
Unfortunately I inherited some of that shit and passed it on to my children. Fortunately they are considerably more functional than I was at times. They never did the "homeless person" gig I did.
I know all about the stigma.
"Be Strong" and "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" are bullshit philosophies.
If you are lucky modern meds work.
I don't post my worst stories here on DU.
It's a deeply, deeply twisted aspect of my personality, but sometimes this song has been my mantra.
The A.S.P.C.A. ain't bad.
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