only the beginning
Plays
Lyrics
Toyosu Fish Market A day-break sushi line Small talk with locals With sleep as bad as mine I love the way The sunlight looks reflecting on the bay I walk the rainbow bridge Pretend like this where I've always lived Watch an airplane fly in So many things worth living for The little moments when the universe is at your door You open up and let it in Find out where your heart has always been So stick around It might be everything you wanted it to be A little house, a little happy family I know that it might seem Further than the ocean's other end But stick around This is only the beginning Oh, it's only beginning Sun setting in San Diego Watching for a green flash You finally see one and it matches your iris Love the way The little things can add up every day We walk down PCH Make it to the beach and dip our feet in Moonlight shines in the water So many things worth living for Little moments when the universe is at your door And you open up and let it in Find out where your heart has always been So stick around It might be everything you wanted it to be A little house, a little happy family I know that it might seem Farther than the ocean's other end Stick around This is only the beginning Oh, it's only the beginning Ooo, it's only the beginning
Tokyo dawn to San Diego green flash: universe at your door, stick around: little house, little family, only the beginning.
ISRC QZDA82495964 (soundexchange)
Track ten on I, Japan and California in one promise song. The DistroKid credit pane lists music and lyrics as Luke Francis Walton, BMI 00579587572. Producer, mixing, recording, drums, bass, guitar, synthesizer, and singing are billed as Scoobert Doobert. Lou Roy is on background vocals. Nicole McCabe is on bass clarinet. Riley Knapp mastered it. Grizzard Graphics did the graphic design. It opens on a Tokyo morning, the Toyosu Fish Market sushi line and the Rainbow Bridge, pretend like this where I’ve always lived: the Japan that Gonna Go to Japan (2023) wished for, on an LP partly recorded on the Shinkansen. It closes at home, a San Diego sunset and a green flash that matches your iris, Moonlight Beach by name without naming it.
The chorus is future tense without a guarantee: stick around, a little house, a little happy family. It echoes the plant-parent rehearsal of Getting Easier on MÖB, but here it’s invitation, not anxiety. On an album about motion, this is the pause that says the life you’re building isn’t finished, and that’s the good news.
Lou Roy, background vocals.
DistroKid credit pane: Music and lyrics, Luke Francis Walton (BMI 00579587572). Producer, mixing engineer, recording engineer, drums, bass, guitar, synthesizer, and singing and vocals billed as Scoobert Doobert. Background vocals, Lou Roy. Bass clarinet, Nicole McCabe. Mastering engineer, Riley Knapp. Graphic design, Grizzard Graphics.