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My Dog Always Knew

V7.5
Gary Robinson
03:36
2026-02-18
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this is a country ballad for keith Urban or Chris Stapleton
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[Intro]
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Verse 1
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Came back to that old house,
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dust still whisperin’ my name.
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Found a box of faded letters
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and the past hit just the same.
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Shadow pressed against me
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like he felt the hurt come through,
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’Cause everyone remembered what I was…
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but my dog always knew.
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Chorus
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My dog never judged the scars I hid,
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just stayed close, saw me through.
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When the world turned cold
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and the town said “told you so,”
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he knew the man beneath the truth.
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Yeah, I came back different,
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but the only soul who saw me true—
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was the one with four legs and a beating heart.
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My dog always knew.
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Verse 2
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Lily wrote me one last letter
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’bout the night before the war.
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Said, “Come home same as you left me,”
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but I couldn’t be that boy no more.
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Then a stranger wrote of long roads
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where we ran from what we’d been through,
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And all the while, in the backseat—
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my dog always knew.
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Bridge
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This town won’t forgive me,
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and maybe I can’t either.
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But his head on my knee says,
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“Don’t leave yourself behind.”
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Final Chorus
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My dog never judged the hurt I carried,
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just stayed close, pulled me through.
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Every letter, every mile,
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every version I outgrew—
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everyone saw what I’d done wrong…
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but my dog always knew.And if home is where someone sees your heart,
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then after all I’ve lived and lost…
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I guess I finally found it—
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’cause my dog always knew.
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