It took me a while to get used to the slow smoky style of this number. Iris Tramm's first song. It's now one of my favorites. Iris has a dog, a German shepherd named Meadows, who is an important character in the story. She sings to him about her disillusionment with men, hence the refrain " That's why I live with my dog." The song hints that nevertheless falling for Norman Paperman. At Coconut Grove Iris sang to an amazingly lifelike puppet dog, whitch all but upstaged her, and won the audience affection all though the evening. 



Shelia says the heart is just a muscle 

Shelia says the heart is cooled by time 

Hiding out for years down in these trade winds 

In the land of coconuts and limes 



Chorus: 

I've played this game for too long 

My life's just one same old song 

Now marooned for a time on this island 

I go into and out of the fog 

And that's why I live with my dog 



Instrumental Bridge 



Men oh, men oh, oh men I've known to many 

Deceivers cloaked in clumsy vanity 

What men lack in love and understanding 

They make up in stupidity 



Chorus: 

But now and then one comes along 

And lights up my world like a song 

I am tempted to unleash my interest 

Yet I put it to you man's best friend 

There's just one sad old way it can end 



Bridge: 

We have our faults 

But men have only two 

All that they say 

All that they do 

You're a joy and a friend and a guardian 

Never bored with my sad monologue 

You're better off with a dog 

Sheila says the heart's just a muscle 

Sheila says the heart's just a muscle