Sunlight
After Stories' head-noise: choose sunlight: popsicle picnic, Tajín mango, beer back, summer camp where nobody needs you.
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ISRC QZNWQ2342323 (soundexchange)
Track three on MÖB, the deliberate turn toward warmth after Stories’ head-loop. Ear to the Ground Music singled it out for bouncy funk energy, which fits its job: the album trying an answer to its own anxiety. The verses are a summer inventory (popsicle picnic, mango with Tajín, margarita number two) and the chorus is a prescription repeated until it sticks: imma be in the sunlight, throw a beer back, savor it.
The quietly load-bearing line is nobody needs me. That’s the freedom move, not martyrdom but permission to exist without being on call. On an LP shadowed by illness and dread, Sunlight is the choice to step into the light anyway. It pairs with Tired of the Sunshine on Moonlight Beach as the push-pull on California brightness. Here the vote is for the sun.
Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
Lyrics
Strawberry shortcake A popsicle picnic A waterpark ticket for you I'm barefoot on concrete I'm burning up my feet It's snow-cone weather Margarita round number two I'll be in the sunlight, the sunlight Yeah, imma be in the sunlight, the sunlight Imma throw a beer back And savor it Got me feeling alright In the sunlight, the sunlight Oo yeah hmm Oo yeah hmm Yeah, Imma throw another beer back And savor it And now I'm feeling alright In the sunlight The sunlight Oo yeah No tourist trap My mango got that Tajín in the bag Breezy, put up a hammock throw a frisbee Under a clear sky Summer camp away Where the living's easy 'Cause nobody needs me Imma be in the sunlight, the sunlight Yeah imma be in the sunlight, the sunlight Imma throw a beer back And savor it Got me feeling alright In the sunlight The sunlight Oo yeah hmm Oo yeah hmm Yeah, Imma throw another beer back And savor it And now I'm feeling alright In the sunlight The sunlight Oo yeah sunlight Oo yeah sunlight Oo yeah