Along with “Death Letter”, “A Boy’s Best Friend” is one of the more somber tracks of “De Stijl”- which is really saying something. Isolation is the overarching theme of this unnervingly simplistic song. Even though the lyrics could be from the point of view a person of any age, the fact that he feels suffocated by “them” and that he needs to run away, the importance of dogs as pets, and the fact that the next track in the album starts with a young boy’s voice all indicate that we are hearing the inner monologue of a tortured and isolated runaway teen.