When It's Over
Pandemic love deferred: hold you with my toes, hoards on Fury Road outside the window: when it's over, zoo and park and 40 after dark, if my liver lives to see you; iron lung, Elon Musk, thanks be to the Ford.
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ISRC QZK6P2060449 (soundexchange)
Track four on Masks and Monsters: Luke solo, North Park lockdown, August 2020. Not the December 2020 single 2020 Is Over, and not the later Sugar Ray cover when it’s over (2025). This is the LP’s deferred-date love song, everything good scheduled for after the plague. It opens on a few bars of nonsense-syllable cartoon filler, the same mask as track one in a lighter register.
The romance is housebound (when I hold you with my toes), with Mad Max outside the glass and the neighbors as apocalypse traffic on fury road. The chorus treats the smallest possible normalcy as sacred: the zoo, the park, a 40 after dark (I’ll take you do the zoo, the DistroKid spelling preserved). What makes it more than cute is the mortality running underneath. Karma tells me I’m not going to live to see you, then the itinerary continues anyway, hopefully my liver’s gonna live to see you: organ humor doing the work of sincerity.
Verse two jumps decades into long-hauler sci-fi (we’ll laugh inside our iron lung) and lands the joke that ages worst and best, Elon Musk as our new world leader, our Ford and savior, a real Bond villain who finally won. The closing thanks be to the Ford, Ford have mercy rewrites the Lord’s Prayer for the car brand and the escape pod both.
Same end-is-near mood and pressure-valve jokes as It Can Get Worse, Creature Comfort, and Pandemic Blues. Pairs with Snuggle With Shaggy as the outside-world-deferred counterpart to happy-inside-the-trap.
Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
Lyrics
Doop doop Scooby dooby Doop doop Scooby dooby Doop doop Scooby dooby Doop doop When I hold you With my toes I know you wanna walk outside And when I kiss you Look through the window And watch the hoards on fury road Oh When it's over I'll take you do the zoo Do what you wanna do Karma tells me I'm not going to live to see you So Oh When it's over I'll take you to the park Drink a 40 after dark Hopefully my liver's gonna live to see you And when we're older If I live to see you We'll laugh inside our iron lung And Elon Musk Our new world leader Our Ford and savior A real Bond villain who finally won Thanks be to the Ford Ford have mercy Oh When it's over I'll take you do the zoo Do what you wanna do Oh When it's over I'll take you do the zoo Do what you wanna do Karma tells me I'm not going to live to see you So Oh When it's over I'll take you to the park Drink a 40 after dark Hopefully my liver's going to live to see you