Songfacts®:

• In this rocker, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme is dealing with a love interest who won't commit. He tells her he'll "go with the flow," meaning accept her terms and let it play out, but with a caveat: "Don't say it doesn't matter anymore," he asks.
• Homme wrote the song with QOTSA bass player Nick Oliveri, his right-hand man on the Songs For The Deaf album. Oliveri tells Songfacts it was one of the first ones they wrote for the album, following "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire."
• Queens Of The Stone Age played an early version of this song on some dates (including the Reading Festival) in August 2001, a year before it was released. The band liked to road test songs before recording them, something that was possible in 2001 before songs were commonly recorded by the audience and inevitably stolen.
• The video was directed by a group of UK filmmakers known as Shynola, and involved airbrushing the band members black and white, then setting them on a red animated background. Near the end, you'll see two bits of Queens Of The Stone Age iconography: a tuning fork and sperm.
• Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters played drums on most of the album, but not on "Go With The Flow," which has drumming by Gene Trautmann, who was slated to be the main drummer before Grohl offered his services.
  
  Also on the track is Brendon McNichol who played the lap steel guitar.
• Songs For The Deaf is loosely considered as a concept album, taking the listener on a drive from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree while tuning into radio stations from towns on the way. Said frontman Josh Homme to the now-defunct Blog.JR.com: "This record was supposed to sound bizarre - like lightning in a bottle. We also were extremely f--ked up. It even sounds that way to me, like a crazy person. The radio interludes are supposed to be like the drive from LA to Joshua Tree, a drive that makes you feel like you're letting go - more David Lynch with every mile."
• When touring Songs For The Deaf in England, a group of deaf people turned up at one show expecting a special event for the hard of hearing. Josh Homme recalled to Q magazine: "I actually went down to speak with them but everybody had already dispersed. I think they got their money back. I distinctly remember there was one person at the show holding a balloon so they could feel the vibrations. Our soundman, Hutch, used to do deaf dances where they hold balloons and stand next to the sub-woofers."