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V: The Meandering Notes of Men in Goats

by Mamareeko X. Bench

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1.
Oh Trongoat, I hear you're leaving today To where, I know you won't say But wherever and come what may I'll be keeping your demons at bay If there's cleaning to do it's done If there's rubbish to take out it's gone If there's friends to visit I'm there Because oh Trongoat, I'll always care Oh Trongoat I'm keeping your children home from school So they can learn life by your rules I know you wouldn't have it any other way So I'm keeping those demons at bay If those children get out of hand I'll punish them, steal from them, do what I can I'll teach them how to talk how to move In the image of my Trongoat, of you You know I never wanted you to leave But if its what you truly believe Then Trongoat I could never stand in your way And I'll wait here for you, day by day by day
2.
There is a place A Place 4 me a place 4 u There is a time A time 4 me a time 4 u Some people call it elysium We call it HONK Some people say you don't go back We just HONK HONK HONK HONK HO-HONK HONK HONK X 8 (?) There is a dream A trace of me a face 4 u There is a decision A Rhyme 4 me a Pronoun 4 u Some people call it elysium We call it HONK Some people say you don't go back We just HONK HONK HONK HONK HO-HONK HONK HONK X 8 (?) (And as he disappeared into the night I clutched my family tight And I prayed, I prayed to all that is out of sight That my love would be alright Well some people tell us to shut up well fuck u! fuck u! fuck u! Well some people tell us to shut up well fuck u! fuck u! fuck u! Some people tell us not to honk Well some people tell us to shut up well fuck u! fuck u! fuck u! But I cant help it, I just cant help but HONK HONK HONK HO-HONK HONK HONK X 8 (?) (As I walk out onto these plains I see so much that I must do Who will assist me? No one will assist me Oh Honk. Honk, Honk Honk. Honk, Honk Honk.
3.
Tonight lets not go home, or to see our friends LETS GET PREGNANT Tonight lets shut the windows and ignore the storm, oh LET'S GET PREGNANT Tonight lets pretend everything's alright, and then LET'S GET PREGNANT Tonight we can admit that we know what we're here for LET'S GET PREGNANT Tonight all the actresses look so pretty to me LET'S GET PREGNANT Tonight I'm a connoisseur of the desperately mainstream LET'S GET PREGNANT Tonight my eyes won't shut, my eye's won't shut LET'S GET PREGNANT Tonight my attention is all I have left to give LET'S GET PREGNANT you said 'i regret everything that ever went wrong', well no shit! i said 'you look beautiful when you come across all kinds of crestfallen' they said 'oh won't you shut up and get a room' I said 'soon. soon.' And in times of desperation when I think about buying that awful Thom Yorke record. LET'S GET PREGNANT When I turn the page at the first sign of a smile, and steal footballs from small children and chuck them in the canal. LET'S GET PREGNANT When I consider it normal to pick the chocolate off a Snickers and throw the rest away. LET'S GET PREGNANT When there is nothing left do but accept that I need you, I need you, I need you. LET'S GET PREGNANT
4.
VEGETARIANZ 00:55
Vegetable matter doesn't really matter anymore.
5.
Giants! 03:09
Everybody keeps on staring at me Bank holiday delinquents majored in hypocrisy Of the opinion that two plus two is four And with tattoos and voodoos they won't take it anymore Gave me rotisserie meat on a teaplate with some salt Said you'll grow up strong like a man if you finish it all I said I don't do what people tell me to do So respectfully I must ignore you The giants are coming The giants are coming The skies are falling The skies are falling It's been eight months and 21 days Since I left my home on the coast in a Messianic haze And as I stand here staring into this sand I wonder did anything ever go as I planned? Yeah I've seen some cool things and I can rebel with the best But I keep sinking to all fours and my hair is a mess If this is the path that a saviour must tread Well I hate it, but I'll take it, until I drop dead The giants are coming The giants are coming The skies are falling The skies are falling You can never know And I don't want to have to go home It can never show And I don't want to have to go home Can you make a career out of being a martyr? Can you bring a cheque home if all you do is walk? Can you tell me what to do now I'm starting to falter? Can you send me a friend cos I just wanna talk? Yeah its been Eight months and 21 days And in all honesty I'm starting to go out of my face I'm clawing and scratching and howling at the moon Oh Trongoat, Trongoat, don't let me fall so soon The giants are coming The giants are coming The skies are falling The skies are falling
6.
Oh sand, my Queen Oh sand, my Lord Oh spirit of the shores don't come calling anymore + I'm singing for my love, I'm singing for my people, I'm the only man who's prepared to take the blame for this land + NO. MORE. GOAT. LAW. DOWN IN THE GROUND WHERE MY FEET SHALL BE FOUND + You are so very unnecessary Give me the secret of the birds Don't make me wait anymore
7.
Oh dear me I've been living by myself for so long I've forgotten that other people feel the need to exist Can you remember how all this used to be I know I used to have something more than this And its all out in the open now And its all up for show Oh excuse me, my elocution lessons taught me nothing but how to feel unimpressed with everyone I meet And its all up in the air now And its all lost at sea If you're living a dream then you need to accept one day you'll wake up And I woke up. It's all Animal Attraction now Just carnal satisfaction now In light of your retraction now I'm leaving, And I'm not coming back. And its all out in the open now And its all up for show I'm falling up the stairs now I'm falling through the door I'm falling into back streets that I've never walked before I'm telling complete strangers my life story it starts with a troubled birth and ends with writing this record at the age of 23 And its all out in the open now And its all up for show If you're living a dream then you need to accept one day you'll wake up And I woke up. It's all Animal Attraction now Just carnal satisfaction now In light of your retraction now I'm leaving, And I'm not coming back. It's all coming back.
8.
I've been sitting in this goat for so long that I've forgotten what it feels like to eat a cake or go out for a hike And I've been counting down the Zuma balls for the day I find a way out the day somebody hears my shout so when you look down at me and spit when you trample on my face and throw me in a pit when you curse my name and tell me I deserve to be dead please remember where I've come from instead oh because I remember Wonkier times I stood proud in my goatskin And sung about grapefruit and lime Now look me in the eye and don't you try to deny you don't feel a little sorry for me the goat-coated man shunned by society Oh god knows I've done my bit for mankind I fought a giant in the valley I made a snow plough from nothing but twine Oh god knows I never put a foot wrong my only crime is a pair of horns and full body hair that's too long so when you look down at me and spit when you trample on my face and throw me in a pit when you curse my name and tell me I deserve to be dead please remember where I've come from instead oh because I remember Wonkier times I stood proud in my goatskin And sung about grapefruit and lime Now look me in the eye and don't you try to deny you don't feel a little sorry for me left out to die in the old country even natural disasters score better than me the goat coated man shunned by society I haven't slept in over 800 weeks that's pretty weak baby, baby that's pretty weak
9.
10.
This over-complicated mythology that's gotta fit neatly into each verse This collection of pathetic apologies I've been dragging around for years These are the words that I must say standing on all fours at the edge of the world Yeah I been to the top of my brain (brain! brain!) scratching all over, searching high and low for something that makes sense I've been stacking up all the wrongs and rights in 2 neatly arranged towers and now I finally think I'm climbing out of this trench oh These are the words that I must say standing on all fours at the edge of the world now listen closely to each grunt and groan moan and cry and you'll find I've been right all along What started as a nonsense has ended as a truth And nothing ever seemed so clear before These are the words that I must say standing on all fours at the edge of the world world world world world world world world world girl girl girl girl world world world world Yeah everything is coming up trongoat Everything is going so right for me (repeat) I fulfilled the contract, I saw it all out right I did what was asked of me, I held back the night I was the only hero, the only one who tried I demand some respect now, I demand some pride This isn't how it ends We've been here before. And we'll be here again. This is not how you shall remain From the top you can only fall back down
11.
I lost my mind to a dream I was something I'm not Now my visions have left me, my memory is failing and my knees are shot. "What about all those promises?" I did my best, what more could I do? "What about the future?" Its not my problem anymore, I'll leave that for you "But what about your family?" They'll survive, they always would. "What about your legacy?" It shan't last, it never could. I lost my mind, I dreamt everything would come good. I saw beyond the horizon, but lost track of where I stood Now I'm laying all my burdens down, this is enough I must sleep it off.
12.
They're dragging the river tonight. Edwardian men saw things they cant unsee. The dream died with the last of the goats. All we have left is bodies and shit. Oh, where? Where to now? Your best friends have thrown you frowns. Your heart is full up, sagging down. Your legacy is 12 stone of mud and waste. Send Trongoat, make haste. Send Trongoat, make haste. And thus ends this tale. No lessons learnt, no bridges left unburnt. The dream died with the last of the goats. All that's left is 12 songs and my voice, oh Oh, where? Where to now? Your best friends have thrown you frowns. Your heart is full up, sagging down. Your legacy is 12 stone of mud and waste. Send Trongoat, make haste. Send Trongoat, make haste.

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V is the fifth album by Mamareeko X./S. Bench and is a concept album about a man turning into a goat.

(this is my favourite thing of all the things i have ever made)

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released December 8, 2007

Written, produced and performed by Sam Draper, 2006-07.

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