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You'll Always Be My Baby

from The First Songs in the World by Where Is Your Dog Now?

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This was the 71st song recorded for the album. The first album ends with a song about self-esteem, and being there for yourself in tough times. This final record ends with a song about giving all of yourself to someone and not being afraid to get hurt. It was my biggest swing, I think, musically. I had the general idea of a Prince, Bruce Springsteen, and weirdly, Sufjan Stevens and Elliott Smith type song with this title. It started off as a joke, a parody of these kinds of huge ballads, but of course it wasn’t a joke. These were all real things I was feeling and desperately needed to express in some way. The lyrics are metaphorical and also a bit meta, like this song knows it’s the last song of the album, and that the album is ending. And it's saying, "That's sad, but oh, what a beautiful time we've had." References to other songs or ideas on the album seemed to arrive naturally: seeing through the mirror on the wall (Reflection) and being in the dark (The World Inside Your Head, Cave), driving into the snow, everything must go (Beautiful Breakup). I also think about how Further Heartbreak ends with one of the lines being “stop the car,” which makes me picture the protagonist of the album listening to it on a long drive and experiencing all these emotions. Looking back now on the album as a whole, as much as I styled it to be like Sgt. Pepper, the biggest influence is probably Ween’s Quebec. Most breakup albums are black and white, either hateful or yearning, sour* or bloody**, but Ween has always excelled at capturing the inner turmoil of heartbreak, the complications that arise when the fantasy of love meets the reality of a relationship. I hope I’ve been able to capture that on this record. And if not, at least in the liner notes. Thank you for listening and reading all of this! I hope this album has brought you joy and comfort and that ROCK HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.
-Andrew
*Olivia Rodrigo
**Bob Dylan

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Pack your things and go before we both start crying
You already know that our world is dying
Drive into the snow for a sense of closure
Everything must go after an exposure

The road ahead is long and dark
and I forgot my glasses
But if I can recall the spark,
I might just save our asses

You’ll always be my baby

Into the abyss, at least we have each other
Fumble in the dark, a foot and then another
One hand on the wall, the other on your shoulder
I can’t see at all, I guess I’m getting older

The tunnel ends and there’s the light
but we can’t go into it
I look into the mirror on the wall
and see right through it

You’ll always be my baby

I’ve never done this before
and I don’t think that I’ll ever do it again
So savor it, and even if we can’t be friends

You’ll always be my baby

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from The First Songs in the World, released February 3, 2023

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Where Is Your Dog Now? Los Angeles, California

Where Is Your Dog Now? is an alt-rock music project by Andrew Haworth based in Los Angeles. He has recorded hundreds of songs since its inception. Each album is a “greatest hits” compilation of these songs, constructed in large part based on feedback given by his mother. Haworth experiments with a wide range of genres, but most of his songs end up sounding like power-pop, and that's okay. ... more

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