Scared to Reunite

Track ten on Big Hug (October 2021), Luke solo. It’s the LP’s re-entry song, post-lockdown reunion anxiety played straight, without the satire register of Don’t Worry or I’m an Idiot. It sits after If I Could Only and before the Supremes cover Where Did Our Love Go and Debby (Extended).

The verse opens in moral fog, people just see what they want, no shared map back to normal, and answers it with a couple-faith promise: keep faith and we gon find a better place, just you and me. Intimacy as the plan when the world won’t cooperate. The chorus is the thesis, feeling capped when all the world is scared to reunite, and the song never lets it resolve. Even the luxury image, watching the sunset with champagne in a tall glass, sours into some people fight over the little things.

Same therapeutic Big Hug thread as When It’s Over (MMM, defer love until after the plague) and A Little Hug (EP, small comfort after isolation). Here the problem is everyone’s fear of being together again.

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I kinda get the feeling that
People just see what they want
Can never find the meaning of
What's right and what's wrong

Let me tell you baby
If we're keeping our faith
We gon find a better place
Just you and me
Hope to promise that

But I
I wonder how much time
My days are crying why
I don't know what I'm doing
Just keep moving through the night

I tend to question life
What can it decide?
How much to feel
When all the world is
Scared to reunite

I tend to watch the sunset
With champange
In a tall glass
Hoping and wishing
For love to last
Cause still some people
Fight over the little things
Yes the little things

I
I wonder how much time
My days are crying why
I don't know what I'm doing
Just keep moving through the night

I tend to question life
What can it decide?
How much to feel
When all the world is
Scared to reunite