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title: "4:20 pm"

meaning: "KŌAN LP-only love song that refuses the genre: at 4:20 stop worrying, laugh off the lonely rock, guilt and all: you got my back, and singing feels like grasping for air you're already in."

year: 2022
release: "KŌAN"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2wGa9TxP1UvCn1hnfyyV6v"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsUW7xnHsEA"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsUW7xnHsEA"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/4-20-pm/1618191665?i=1618192214"

themes: ["love", "KŌAN", "happiness", "guilt", "friendship", "cosmology"]

isrc: QZES82290013
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  When it hits 4:20 pm
  I'm gonna stop my worrying
  I'm feeling good
  Then I feel guilty being happy

  You tell me I can laugh it off
  We're on a lonely little rock
  And there's no reason why we can't be
  Pretty happy

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  I don't write love songs cuz they're cheesy
  And I'm cutting back on my derriere
  But you should know that on the daily
  When I go to sing
  It feels like you're the air
  I'm grasping for
  Some more

  When it hits 4:20 pm
  I'm gonna stop my worrying
  I'm feeling good
  Then I feel guilty being happy

  You tell me I can laugh it off
  We're on a lonely little rock
  And there's no reason why we can't be
  Pretty happy

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  I used to dream in black and white
  Reliving moments of a boring life
  You brought me to a lucid dream
  Teaching me colors while I'm fast asleep

  What took you so long
  To come find me
  We're getting so high
  We can barely imagine
  A life spent
  Without you

  When it hits 4:20 pm
  I'm gonna stop my worrying
  I'm feeling good
  Then I feel guilty being happy

  You tell me I can laugh it off
  We're on a lonely little rock
  And there's no reason why we can't be
  Pretty happy

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  You got my back
  I got your back
  When we get down bad
  We build each other right back up

  You got my back
  I got your back

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Track twenty-four on [*KŌAN*](/albums/koan/), **LP-only** (fourth movement with *September*, *1101*, *Get the Funk Out of My Head*, [*Miss Disinformation*](/songs/miss-disinformation/), [*to everyone who had a good pandemic*](/songs/to-everyone-who-had-a-good-pandemic/)). Also released as a standalone single. Not on the KŌAN A/B/C chapters.

The title is a daily alarm to stop worrying, with survivor's guilt baked in: *I'm feeling good / then I feel guilty being happy*. The answer is cosmic smallness, the same move as [*What Makes You You*](/songs/what-makes-you-you/) and [*Derrida Makes a Différance*](/songs/derrida-makes-a-differance/), except here the rock is shared: *we're on a lonely little rock / and there's no reason why we can't be pretty happy*. The chorus stacks mutual repair (*you got my back / I got your back*) until it outlasts the guilt.

Then a love song that won't admit it is one. *I don't write love songs cuz they're cheesy*, says the love song, before the real confession lands: *when I go to sing it feels like you're the air I'm grasping for*. Breath as beloved. The bridge turns *black and white* dreams into colors taught in a lucid dream, capped by the height joke, *we're getting so high we can barely imagine a life spent without you* (4:20 pm doing double duty). Pairs with [*Who Am I Really Fooling Anyway*](/songs/who-am-i-really-fooling-anyway/) (*laugh it up*) and the KŌAN C cluster, the relational answer track on the full LP.

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