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Follow Me Under

by Van Goat

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1.
I lose my grip when you get down mama She stops so smooth and starts up up again Some cellar door sure sounds ok It's quite all right if we're not just friends no more Heaven knows she's got to grind Shame to waste such a pretty mind Come subway spelunking with me We'll find a cave where we both can stand to be I lose my shit when you get down mama She stops so smooth and starts up up again Some cellar doors just sound all right It's quite ok baby if we're not just friends no more wont you come down here and close the door i got something you should see oh baby wont you follow me wont you  follow me under follow me under follow me under follow me under
2.
King Krupa 00:42
3.
Scuttle 02:21
Scuttle It  just got cold very cold when he said what he said how he said toodaloo break a leg out there oh no It's  been a mile she goes wild To the max baby just relax Shave a leg  do your thing Get your payment  Oh no Thats my bitter self Scuttling away! Live Live a lie Don’t be sad You will cry  You gonna dive down in your grave After you play all those games Oh no! Skies  In your mind You can light up everything but we dictate just how you play Good for you better for they Oh no! That's my bitter self Scuttling away Stars shining everywhere diamonds in the air Scuttle on away Scuttle on away Scream  out your name Scream it loud Every way Every day can't contain All these things  you make me feel baby. That's my bitter self Scuttling away
4.
Ew La La 02:26
When you wake up in heaven Will you wait in line? Seems I'm waiting all the time When your life has been deadened Will you feel fine? Dull is just your state of mind. Lest you have it all Lest you have it all Have a little fall down  right now baby come on Have you come to an answer? Is something always true? Am I the only one who has no clue? you act like forgiveness is something you own but don’t you know just what you owe? Lest you have it all Lest you have it all Have a little fall down  right now baby come on Ew La La
5.
I got robbed and I'm mad But I'm not terribly sad Just need to curse at the curb for awhile I would call someone for help But my phone is someplace else Lucky I'm stranded in the middle of my friends Drank my coffee, had a shot Wandered through the parking lot Reflecting on my screw ups of last night If only I had gotten laid There'd be no reason to complain But I played fist full of dollars and lost em all Good thing that nothin matters when you don't give a shit It's so much easier to live like this Wonder when I'll get on home Bet ya my Grandma's gonna know That I've been bad, bad, bad, bad to the bone Wish I had a better way to cope But the bars aren't open, I swore not to smoke So I'm singin’ in the streets And I'm waltzing down the road Making big plans for my next blow out show You know that nothin matters when you don't give a shit It's so much easier to live like this.
6.
To Be Loved 01:24
Fast asleep and I tuck you in move to the icicles running thin warningless one falls down on me something of my fate it seems and you come rushing to my side kiss my boo boo blood goodbye tongue like a cat you cannot keep me from your lips my dove you're from above oh to be loved to be lost and to get along when you lose what you had souls so often collide and fall apart its all right you can go right back to the start Guitars and vocals: Aidan Ward Additional vocals: Ben Einstein Tambourine: Lindsay Alexis Bass: Derek Burle Can Crusher and Drums: Taylor Moxon
7.
Aunt Arctica 02:25
I'm just a little moosey and I'll eat my water weeds The last thing that I'll be wanting is another hungry mouth to feed They build it, and sink it and it happens all the time I guess we'll just have to build us another pipeline I ain't much for destruction unless it breeds corruption these seismic senses do prescribe volcanic greed eruption My mountain melts so quickly  it's getting warmer every day and each year, machinery give us a bit of hell to pay They build it, and sink it and it happens all the time I guess we'll just have to build us another pipeline Guitar and vocals: Aidan Ward Electric Piano and additional vocals: Ben Einstein Trombone and additional vocals: Lindsay Alexis Bass and additional vocals: Derek Burle Drums: Taylor Moxon
8.
Folks have you ever heard the story of Willie the Weeper His occupation was a chimney sweeper He had a dreamin’ habit and he had it bad Listen and I’ll tell you bout the dream he had Dreamed he had a barrel of diamond rings and money Mamas by the score to love and call him honey Everywhere he went the people all would say There’s the guy that put the B in old Broadway So tell me what would you do If you could have all your dreams come true Well something tells me you'd lock the door  Like Willie the Weeper And you cry for more Met the diamond horse and caught the Picadilly  Told the people now that it belonged to Willie Kicked it with the King of France and made him rave Called him uncle George said you need a shave Rambled into Paris on a golded wheel sleeper Thats where the absinthe flows a little deeper Make it to the big parade and got the ranks Tipped the pageant queen a half a million franks So tell me what would you do? If you could have all your dreams come true Well something tells me you'd lock the door  Like Willie the weeper And you cry for more
9.
Dry Me Out 03:38
Oh dry me out Wet me again This is the strangest place that I have ever been You got the land All colonized From coast to coast with folks like you and I Do you get scared When they come to your land? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Then nothing goes to waste The ocean's big Gives you the creeps But you still don’t know no secrets of the deep And there's the moon high above I guess we'll go back when there is something else to do Do you get scared  When they come to your land? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Then nothing goes to waste And there's Mars we'll get there soon But is it because we're running out of room? Oh dry me out Wet me again This is the strangest place that I have ever been This is the strangest place that I have ever been This is the strangest place that I have ever . . 
10.
Six Foot Skeleton I got a six foot skeleton Living under my skin trying to get back out again Chicka-Ra Chicka-Ra I got a 9-volt battery inside my chest cavity see the way it powers me Chicka-Ra Chicka-Ra I think i’m paranoid Don’t call the doctor I think I’m paranoid Don’t call the . . I got a deadbeat mannequin did not pay me rent again I kicked him to the curb and then Chicka-Ra Chicka-Ra I got gadget in my glass jaw Cuts me like a tablesaw Chicka-Ra, Chicka-Ra-Ra Chicka-Ra, Chicka-Ra I think i’m paranoid Don’t call the doctor I think I’m paranoid Don’t call the government
11.
My ship will have a mast of white I'll sail it through day and night With whiskey and gin and a knife on my skin I'll make love with the wind
12.
Hide and Seek Less depressed Overdressed Unknown Full of holes Nature knows I’m bones Hide and seek and back to sleep again Cloudy skies Tell me lies Foreclosed Tides will rip The listing ship Down it goes Hide and seek and back to sleep again Hide and seek and back to sleep again
13.
Finder 02:49
Oh the malign the malign in his eye And his gun is set to kill fight is right and blood is rain War is war is pain is pain Oh the malign on the screen on the screen Why don't you say won't you say what you mean? Why don’t you say what you say what you mean? Could have thought of it before no turning back now and it's a little late  Oh the design the design of the mind and the love is left to wilt fall and fall and break the ground down is up and up is down Oh the malign of the lies of the lies and the money flows upstream flows to drain a caustic rain Could have thought of it before no turning back now and it's a little late
14.
She carves out the names on the wall to stay sane and the dust that it makes is now paint for her face And indeed politely he believes all her dreams until what she can use is not what  she has got So you are a national Identity It's border making Please don’t be so closed off A peaceful day Is for the taking She cries out her eyes and decides to deny that its one one and all from its rise ’til its fall With a crutch in her bag and a tax on the rag its la luz its the rain its what flows  through your veins So you are a national identity Its border making Please don’t be so closed off A peaceful day Is for the taking
15.
Piddle in the middle of the floor nobody's around to clean it up  I gotta find a couch corner to remodel with the throttle on full  I'm a jungle bundle Roughin’ up anybody Soft or hard wood or yarn make it smelly if it lives or lived It belongs in my belly tell me that I can't sniff butts what's the point Of waking up? I live in a bubble Guard the house with all my might  I might just try  to rip the top off  the can with the turkey and a tasty treaty meat buffet  how tantalizing Cranberry gravy  and stuffing  just in time for late thanksgiving with a hair pin turn I Flavor frenzy and drag it down with me I live in a bubble Just like things You find in a puddle I'm a living breathing Piece of the puzzle  In the rubble after the pending disaster Survival makes me faster spoils of war  restore my wings history gets blistering Throw it away Hole in the wall Head in the ground to hell with it all I live in a bubble

about

Punk. Swing. Ragtime. Southern jazz. Surf. Van Goat is a band to which you could apply many labels, but none would quite prepare you for what you’re about to hear as you pop on your headphones and queue up their album.

Harnessing the diverse DIY aesthetic of their native Oakland, Van Goat (featuring Aidan Ward, Ben Einstein, Derek Burle, Lindsay Alexis, and Taylor Moxon) is in the business of writing not only songs that you can dance to, but entire albums that you can enjoy front to back without pausing or skipping: a musical experience wherein each successive song’s mottled riffs and bewildering charisma is pleasantly startling.

Follow Me Under, the five-piece’s debut full-length LP, pits thick bass lines against rhythmic trombone; pointed lyrics against verdant harmonies: bursts of liveliness in the first half against bursts of contemplation in the second. Side A, so to speak, is the dancing side, and Side B is the meditative side, but the entire LP creates a shindig all its own, plucking together influences both local and global and mashing them together in a cohesive and sophisticated exertion.

“You know when you’re in the shower and you want to turn the water as hot as you possibly can, and when it starts to burn you, you lower it a little bit? That’s what I want people to feel with this record,” says bassist Derek Burle.

credits

released September 21, 2018

Produced by Van Goat. Additional production by AJ McKinley. Recorded by Van Goat at Top Story Studios in Oakland CA. Mixed by John Smart. Mastered by Piper Payne at Neato Mastering in Oakland CA. Additional recording by Brad Lincoln, Ben Einstein, Nathan Bauld. Album artwork by Cody Blocker. Logo design by Eric Smith. Photography by Francesco Carucci.

Van Goat is Aidan Ward, Lindsay Alexis, Ben Einstein, Derek Burle, and Taylor Moxon.

All lyrics written by Aidan Ward, music by Van Goat except: “Nothing Matters” and “Saliva Monster” lyrics by Lindsay Alexis, Six Foot Skeleton lyrics by Taylor Moxon, and “Willie The Weeper” [traditional] lyrics and music written by unknown, additional lyrics by Aidan Ward.


Copyright © 2018 Van Goat. vangoatband.com

Thanks to Alex Mallonee, John Smart, Francesco Carucci, AJ McKinley, Eric Smith and the SNAFU Family, Fred Hausman, Cody Blocker, Piper Payne and Steve Jarvis. Special thanks to Matt Sweeney, Emily Hall, Chris Barton, our parents, friends, family, and to everyone who contributed to the making of this album.


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