A Little Hug
Little Hug closer, recorded in the water at June Lake: company for everybody, piece of God though I'm a piece of shit: little reminder what love can do.
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Title track of Little Hug (April 2021), the EP closer, track twelve. Luke solo. Core vocal and ukulele recorded in the water at June Lake (Sierra Nevada). Not to be confused with A Big Hug on the later LP: the lake recording is this song, the small recovery object before Big Hug scaled the thesis up.
The hook frames the need as communal and circular: everybody including me could use a little company, and the hug travels from me to you to me, a loop rather than one-directional charity. The bridge is plain repair (let’s take our time and reassess / think for ourselves and make amends), post-pandemic re-entry in language anyone can use after eleven tracks of baths, crickets, Debby, and so what. The chorus holds dignity and self-disgust in one breath, piece of God / though I’m a piece of shit, the same flawed-and-beautiful energy A Big Hug would later echo at scale.
After the parasocial plea of Debby and the epistemic spiral of Don’t Know Much, this is contact actually offered, and the little reminder of what love can do lands as something you do, not something you theorize. The EP’s thesis in one place: not fine, but reaching for warmth anyway (Little Hug essay), and the seed for the full Big Hug LP a few months later.
Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Core vocal and ukulele recorded in the water at June Lake. Mastered by Riley Knapp.
Lyrics
Everybody Including me Could use a little company Oh A little time together Better late than never A little hug From me to you to me Let's take our time and reassess Think for ourselves and make amends Oh We are simple humans Infinite imperfect Piece of God Though I'm a piece of shit I could use a little hug Little reminder of What love can do I could use a little hug Little reminder of What love can do What it do Everybody Including me Could use a little company Oh A little time together Better late than never A little hug From me to you to me