Moving to Canada
September 2020 escape fantasy: brighter days under a pine, Narnia north: people turning funny, land of milk and honey, Montreal je t'aime, am I happy to be hiding?
Listen: SpotifyApple Music
ISRC QZK6P2069176 (soundexchange)
Standalone single (September 8, 2020), not on Masks and Monsters (August 2020) but the same season: a post-LP exit fantasy from when America felt unlivable. Luke solo, and Backseat Mafia premiered the video. Per Luke’s note, it started with a MAGA man telling him if you don’t like it here, then move. The reply: hell, guy, come to think of it I just might. A song to whistle on the way.
So Canada becomes a maple-syrup wonderland, the land of milk and honey where cold is a feature not a bug and I could take a winter with you. The portal is a wardrobe (oh, Narnia), the panic is real (people turning funny / got a little running to do), and the relocation plays as romance. Verse two is tourist French, parlez-vous Français, je t’aime, Montreal is pretty pretty nice, freedom treated as geography rather than abstraction. The punchline is the faux-Canadian eh? / eh eh.
Then one line undercuts the whole whistle-along: am I happy to be hiding? Escape or cowardice, the song won’t say. Same 2020 political exhaustion as When It’s Over and Why, How, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, but pop-funk instead of lockdown blues, and an exhale cousin to 2020 Is Over. What comes next on the timeline is recovery on Little Hug.
Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton.
Lyrics
I tell you we got brighter days ahead Pretty soon we'll sit under a pine I tell you you gonna be magnificent We'll get there in no time Go pack it up, my love Oh, Narnia We're moving up above Can't take it Oh no People turning funny Got a little running to do I know We'll go Oh oh Land of milk and honey I could take a winter with you Looks like we're moving up to Canada, eh? Eh eh We'll pick a pretty pretty paradise Parlez-vous Français Oh, je t'aime, je t'aime I hear that Montreal is pretty pretty nice I could use some freedom again Go pack it up, my love Oh, Narnia We're moving up above Can't take it Oh no People turning funny Got a little running to do I know We'll go Oh oh Land of milk and honey I could take a winter with you Looks like we're moving up to Canada, eh? Eh eh Am I happy to be hiding? Oh no People turning funny Got a little running to do I know We'll go Oh oh Land of milk and honey I could take a winter with you Looks like we're moving up to Canada, eh? Eh eh Looks like we're moving up to Canada, eh? Eh eh