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Sunlight

Scoobert Doobert · MÖB · 2023 · From MÖB

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

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