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Dog is Goob

by 100 Watt Horse

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paulelliottwilliams i love the comedic role dragonball z and wendy's play in the lyrics to this song Favorite track: On the Way Down.
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Travis Button I've said it before but the mastery across all the varying styles present here are really like nothing I've ever heard before. Truly unique musicianship and songwriting here, only 100 Watt Horse could put these songs together on an album an have it feel so right and cohesive. Would be amazing to see this as a physical release one day, I'd love to add it to the collection. Impossible to pick a true favorite here. Favorite track: Kensington.
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pick apart my gaze, it’s been a troublesome year picked up a troublesome fear of somebody getting close to me we’ve been driving slow so our transmission don’t blow we’ve got a couple more shows and a couple thousand miles to go at the Rio Grande we met a difficult man he said “boys, there’s blood on my hands and I’m runnin just to feel the wind” so we left him there, beneath the weight of his stare and I’d be willing to swear there’s a standing stone right where he stood i was there i was broken i was on my way i was bare tired and broken i was on my way
2.
i am an ocean i am as strong as the ocean days are illusions i can see through the curtain you are the instigator i am the investigation no two kids are snowflakes special this is the entire threshold i’m Wolverine i have the bones of a machine no one can touch me i am as old as the redwood tree you are the instigator i am the investigation no two kids are snowflakes special this is the entire threshold you are the inspiration i am the imaginator false the king that knows no prophet we are subjects to his profits this is a rock n roll song I wrote not too long after seeing you i was overjoyed, but i could tell that you were annoyed it’s like we were never friends, judging by your expression now i wanna die, or maybe i just want you to die Lisa, you’re part of the lie you no longer can remember why you tried burn the dice twist the wire tight this is a Cadillac door, a part of a thing that was once worth more i’m too dumb to explain, it’s sort of like flowers in cellophane you’re sort of my last hope we’re different but not, like two isotopes
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Coffee Cup 01:41
open your eyes and put on your disguise again hope this relationship’s somethin worth stickin around a few years for god i’m so sick of this comfortable existence you’re in the kitchen, but not making coffee, of course she said “of course” and added an “I love you” i do too but I’m scared ‘cause my parents’ love was short and not evenly endorsed shut up, no you shut up who broke my coffee cup? don’t cry, the world’s gonna end pretty soon anyway
4.
well you don’t hold my hand anymore and you don’t scratch the back of my neck oh how am I gonna get my baby back? well you don’t have the time for me the little things that used to make you smile i haven’t seen those teeth in a while we used to own this side of town we knew all the best streets to walk down you used to love to mess around how low, the weeping willow tree her sorrow hung before the world to see i would not trade the world for thee but you don’t hold my hand anymore and you don’t scratch the back of my neck oh how am i gonna get my baby back?
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i don’t know why this liquor tastes like getting hugged by someone you hate i don’t know why I’d rather say “i love you” than “i am afraid” i am afraid up in the sky and down below i don’t know where we’re going up in the north it’s cold and grey i don’t know why we stay i don’t know why we stack stones to live in and leave for our children American wisdom kill the thing you come from i don’t know why i don’t know why seems I’d have known by now i don’t know why we need to say “i don’t know what to say” just say nothing we stack stones to live in and leave for our children American wisdom kill the thing you come from and what will the kids do? disconnect, they’ll have to this is not about them better off without them
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on the way down i stopped in to have a quick drink at the far table you wore a leather jacket, i think you were so quiet now you don’t ever shut up keeping it cool, I delivered a thirty-five minute lecture on Dragonball Z on the way down a couch got left out in the rain leading to our first fight i was sure you would just walk away but when it was over, we ate Wendy’s on the ride back home from the dump on the way down stopped short at the edge of a cliff steady like a Peterbilt and built like an olympian picking my sad ass up out of the hole that i dug for my damn self no you never had the patience for my low self-esteem on the way down like waking from a real long dream
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Kensington 02:33
though i’m often alone, i’m afraid of my shadow in the emptiness of home, even memories can feel hollow i’m fallin up the stairs fists balling i’m pulling out my hair tears streaming name calling i am facing my fears as i bury my rabbit in the backyard, by the fence, where the kudzu can’t have it i’m laughing in a dream at my brother i’m losing all my teeth one after another i remember my house i remember my rabbit now i’m talking to myself i’m such a fool for my old habits but i’m open to change i am ready for this weekend in the absence of pain i am filled with indecision
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all i need all i need is a couple days just some sleep a little time to recuperate me and you we take some time we get away all i need is a little time and a little space i see the world does it revolve around you or me or anyone? or anything but the sun? it isn’t it isn’t up to us it isn’t up to anyone i see the world does it revolve around you or me or anyone? or anything but the sun? it isn’t it isn’t up to us it isn’t up to anyone all i want all i want is for you to be with me a test run anything but, well, legally me and you we take some time we go to sleep all i want is a little love and some hollering i see the world does it revolve around you or me or anyone? or anything but the sun? it isn’t it isn’t up to us it isn’t up to anyone i see the world does it revolve around you or me or anyone? or anything but the sun?
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sleepin through my Monday blues still wishin i was sleepin next to you standin at the foot of my bed you turned to leave, and not a word was said do you love me like i love you? and was there truly nothing either one of us could do? well sometimes i get sad but i’m alive and so are you and at the heart of pain there is a consciousness that’s true shaking through another Sunday afternoon i never used to drink as much as you but you can still hang your hat on me it’s been years since i had a reason to leave and do you love me like i love you? and was there truly nothing either one of us could do? well sometimes i get sad but i’m alive and so are you and at the heart of pain there is a consciousness that’s true
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Valley Head 03:38
let that red water flow right through my grave lower Appalachia is where i was named and of my transgressions, i’ll not say a thing my past endeavors are not fit to sing oh father who art in Valley Head well she looks just like her mother and she talks just like her dad the movies make her happy and prisons make her sad i guess working at the Xaxby’s is just what there is to do i saw her at the counter through the window of the drivethru Walmart be thy name lord knows it’s tough to be both honest and free and i never quite could find that balance in me but nothing tastes as bitter as lies on the wind and nothing feels better than hugging a friend forever and ever and ever, etc.
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about

Two years ago Graham and I recorded this album. Now it's being released thanks to the wonderful people at Sleeper Records. We have decided to donate all the profits from the sale of this album to charities in our respective cities of Nashville and Philadelphia. In Nashville, that organization is Worker’s Dignity, a “worker-led center organizing for economic justice and dignity for all.” Sleeper Records haven chosen Philabundance and Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, two amazing and absolutely essential organizations. If you feel so inclined, you can donate directly by visiting workersdignity.org, phillybailout.com, and philabundance.org. I’m so happy and honored to have the chance to finally get these songs out into the world, even as that world is seemingly falling apart. Mountains of love to all of y’all from the bottom of my heart.

Love George

credits

released April 3, 2020

All songs written by George Pettis, except for "Safe/Save" written by Highlander
Engineered by Graham Tavel and Henry Wilson
Produced by George and Graham
Mixed by Graham at Mirror Mirror Recordings
Mastered by Jesse Mangum at The Glow Studios

George - played lots of stuff and sang
Graham - played lots of stuff too and programmed some drums
Henry - played drums/bass/lead guitar on "Sometimes I Get Sad" and "Valley Head"
Gabe - played bass/lead guitar on "Rock n Roll Song" "Kensington" "Safe/Save" and "American Wisdom"
Andrew - played drums on "Rock n Roll Song" and "Kensington"
Jordan - sang on "American Wisdom"
Alex Fermanis - shredded pedal steel on "Sometimes I Get Sad"

Album artwork and lyrics sheet designed by River Smallflower

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100 Watt Horse Tallahassee, Florida

and i'll be light as a feather

and i won't have a face

and i won't have a gender

and if i had troubles

i won't remember

and the air will taste sweet

like muscadine wine

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