the cycle
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Lyrics
Everybody's got their Own shit they're dealing with My own burden carrying The weight of everybody Pressing on my shoulder Get older then I'll be Hurting people Below me And feeling so much better The cycle goes on and on Is that a little repetitious? Well welcome to my life Yes, i'm being dramatic But a retrograde's to blame No I don't really believe it But I like a good excuse A timeline to get better A reason for abuse Smile shake it off Smile have a drink Smile try not think too much Everybody's got their Own shit they're dealing with My own burden carrying The weight of everybody Pressing on my shoulder Get older then I'll be Hurting people Below me And feeling so much better The cycle goes on and on And on and on and on and on and on And on and on and on and on The cycle goes on and on And on Smile shake it off Smile have a drink Smile try not think too much Try not think too much Try not think too much
The loop nobody escapes cleanly: carry everyone's weight, pass hurt downward, feel better: smile, shake it off, try not think too much.
ISRC QZFYZ2461802 (soundexchange)
Track three on I. 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. Riley Knapp mastered it. The I album pane lists Grizzard Graphics on graphic design. The standalone single pane does not. The title echoes the Möbius cycle (MÖB, I, US, MÖBIUS), but here the cycle is personal and ugly. The confession is that pain rolls downhill: get older then I’ll be hurting people below me / and feeling so much better. It isn’t an endorsement, just a naming, and the song knows it’s posturing too. Mercury retrograde becomes an excuse you don’t fully believe, a reason for abuse, and the coping stack (smile shake it off / smile have a drink) repeats until repetitious becomes the point.
On an LP mostly about u, travel, and tenderness, this is the crack where the singer admits how harm propagates and how easy it is to numb past it. It sits after daydreaming and before ez pz; neither solves the loop, they alternate with it.
Lou Roy, background vocals. Nagamag (February 13, 2024) is a short Greek blurb; the English on the page is marked as an automatic translation, and it calls the melody relaxed and the vocals a tonic.
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. Mastering engineer, Riley Knapp. Graphic design, Grizzard Graphics, on the I album pane. The standalone single pane does not list graphic design.