Snuggle With Shaggy
Lockdown love song: desert-island studio with your only lady, PPE supermarket runs, neighbor's cough: waking up next to you makes stuck feel like snuggling Shaggy.
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ISRC QZK6P2060447 (soundexchange)
Track two on Masks and Monsters: Luke solo, North Park lockdown, August 2020. After It Can Get Worse opens on nightmare logic, this is the intimate flip. Same trap reframed as a honeymoon: the apartment as a desert island, the partner as the whole cast. I could waste my life with you, and time dilates to make that sound like a plan.
The jokes do the emotional work. Lockdown hobbies become courtship (cave paintings, going all culinary), COVID paranoia becomes a romance chore (covering you when he coughs), the supermarket run becomes an expedition in full PPE. Under it all sits a fact you can’t argue with by repeating, we are stuck no matter what we do, with the relief right on top: waking up next to you makes you forget. The title is pun and cuddle command at once, the partner you hide under the blanket with.
Same register as Creature Comfort and Shaggy’s Anthem, but here the mask is domestic warmth, not bravado. Pairs with Pandemic Blues as the other “I’ve got it good” lockdown song on the LP.
Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
Lyrics
Imma kick on a desert island For another month or two Imma kick with my only lady I could waste my life with you Imma draw a cave painting I can sing a song for you Imma turn myself all culinary Nothing else to do Waking up Waking up Waking up Next to you Make me forget We are stuck We are stuck We are stuck No matter what we do Baby know that I am happy, yeah No matter how it seems Yeah, a nightmare or a dream Yeah, you make it all seem like Waking up Waking up Waking up Next to you Is all that I need Imma go and pick a wildflower Growing in the garden box Imma save you from our next-door neighbor Covering you when he coughs Imma go to supermarket Wearing all my PPE Studio, our little island Snuggle with Shaggy Waking up Waking up Waking up Next to you Make me forget We are stuck We are stuck We are stuck No matter what we do Baby know that I am happy, yeah No matter how it seems Yeah, a nightmare or a dream Yeah, you make it all seem like Waking up Waking up Waking up Next to you Is all that I need