Songs & credits

I See the Moment

Scoobert Doobert · Big Hug · 2021 · with J MESA · From Big Hug

Big Hug post-pandemic vertigo: white lies and the popular feed, COVID breaking the spell: I see the moment coming down, people crying till they find the way home, wondering how much clout it'll take to get things started.

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ISRC QZMEP2188962 (soundexchange)

Track thirteen on Big Hug, co-written and performed with J MESA (Taylor James / Babidi on earlier Scoobert records like Masks and Monsters and Dragon Ball $d; later Prisoner, 2024). Title split: Bandcamp lists I See the Monument; DistroKid and Apple Music list I See the Moment. Same song; this page uses the distributor title.

On a re-entry record turning toward strangers, this is the political-media hangover track. Belief keeps slipping out of reach: the book isn’t clean, smeared in ink, meaning as a puzzle you can’t read straight. The chorus puts the doubt next to its mirror image, people crying till they find the best way to our home against the cynical how much clout I’ll need to get things started, belief versus the influence economy. Verse two names the source, white lies taking over the scene… beyond the popular feed, and ties it to breaking the spell sung by COVID disease. The bridge finally slows hope down and reaches recovery language, let’s go home to a place that we know where all the good things go.

Heavier than Heffalumps and Woozles on the same LP, and the same Big Hug question as A Good Life on MMM: how to believe again after collapse. It leads toward KŌAN’s disinformation thread (Miss Disinformation, to everyone who had a good pandemic).


Written by Luke Francis Walton and J MESA (Taylor James / Babidi). Performed by Scoobert Doobert with J MESA. Mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp.

Lyrics
Many times feeling used to deceit
Pretty simple to the body
When it's falling to heat
But not the kind I seem to find just tryna believe
Obscene
It's like I'm living a dream
How serene
Still I mean
It's like I'm trying
But the book isn't clean
Smeared in ink
I'm tryna find and it goes in between
To help me piece the puzzle
In a way that is peace
Cuz I hope with the laugh
Ha ha ha
That we find
We believe

Closer
Into a miracle
Like a rocket who's winning America
But I know
Each body has go to and try to release
Take a moment
But the anger's bound to finally decrease
See what I mean?

I see the moment coming down
I don't know what to believe now
Cuz I see the people
Crying till they
Find the best way
To our home

I see the moment going down
Don't know what's left to figure out
Cause I'm here just wondering
How much clout
I'll need to get things started

White lies
Taking over the scene
Wondering who to believe
Beyond the popular feed

Is it something we see
Or is it something we read
Cause I'm getting pretty tired of
Wishing this was a dream

Still I'm getting pretty tired
Cause I'm tryna police myself
My health
Into invisible means
Breaking the spell
Sung by COVID disease
I'm determined till the whole world believe
In something

Closer
Into a miracle
Like a rocket who's winning America
But I know
Each body has go to and try to release
Take a moment
But the anger's bound to finally decrease
See what I mean?

I see the moment coming down
I don't know what to believe now
Cuz I see the people
Crying till they
Find the best way
To our home

I see the moment going down
Don't know what's left to figure out
Cause I'm here just wondering
How much clout
I'll need to get things started

I see it running from me
My hope and how the way I believe
It won't wait up
Slow
Down
So
I can get up
It takes time to find what you need
But I know we can conquer defeat
So let's go home
To a place that we know
Where all the good things go

I see the moment coming down
I don't know what to believe now
Cuz I see the people
Crying till they
Find the best way
To our home

I see the moment going down
Don't know what's left to figure out
Cause I'm here just wondering
How much clout
I'll need to get things started