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2020 Is Over
Metadata
- title
- 2020 Is Over
- meaning
- December 2020 exhale: bad days still ahead, but the horizon brightens because the year is finally done: ape on a rock, no soma holiday, eating crow with egg and ham, turn up.
- year
- 2020
- release
- 2020 Is Over
- releaseType
- single
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton.
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/2020-is-over/1537859040?i=1537859041
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dv_V8H46hI
- officialVideo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dv_V8H46hI
- themes
- pandemic
- 2020
- survival
- optimism
- animal
- isrc
- QZMER2073030
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Bad days are ahead It's looking brighter on the horizon Cuz 2020's over Yeah 2020's over Turn up A man can only take so much abuse I'll never soma holiday I am an ape clutching at a rock I am an ape An animal I am An animal I'll be A man can only take so much Get to it Get to it Bad days are ahead It's looking brighter on the horizon Cuz 2020's over Yeah 2020's over Turn up Optimistic frozen carrion I eat my crow with egg and ham Assault on all you deem is alien A 21st centurion Get to it Get to it Bad days are ahead It's looking brighter on the horizon Cuz 2020's over Yeah 2020's over Turn up
Content
Standalone single (December 1, 2020), not on Masks and Monsters (August 2020) but the same pandemic season. A live version appears on Live from the Void (2021). Distinct from MMM's track four, When It's Over: different song, same year-end neighborhood.
The chorus is blunt catharsis. It admits bad days are ahead without pretending the future is easy, and still calls 2020 done. Turn up is a command to yourself.
Underneath runs a survival inventory: an ape clutching at a rock, I'll never soma holiday (no chemical escape, stay awake to it), and the joke at its darkest, I eat my crow with egg and ham. Breakfast plated on top of humble pie. Less resolution, more momentum.
See also: Catalog.