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title: "AFTER-PARTY"

meaning: "The 2 a.m. refusal to go home: venue at capacity so you take the night elsewhere, make strangers into friends, and keep the party going even when nothing good is supposed to happen after midnight."

year: 2025
release: "US"
releaseType: "album"

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

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Alto saxophone: Nicole McCabe."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/after-party/1807987972?i=1807987973"

themes: ["night", "party", "US", "after-hours"]

isrc: QZMEN2505192
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I'm not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  I'm not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  Sorry
  We're at capacity
  No worries we got a place that we go
  Take a shortcut down ocean avenue
  Maybe we could take a swim
  Maybe I could talk with you

  Running
  Hmm not the best idea
  We're falling
  How'd I get this bruise, nobody knows
  Take a shortcut down electric avenue
  You know I wanna rock with you
  Are you down too?

  Nothing good ever happens
  After 2 am
  I wanna keep the party going
  Grab a stranger make a friend
  I don't know where to go but I know that I'm

  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  I'm not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  Want a cigarette?
  Mmm what am I doin
  Over-consuming
  Don't think about it

  Oh for the hell of it
  I'll take a hit of it
  That wasn't a cigarette
  Ay yah yah

  Nothing good ever happens
  After 2 am
  I wanna keep the party going
  Grab a stranger make a friend
  I don't know where to go but I know that I'm

  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  I'm not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  Nothing good ever happens
  After 2 am
  I wanna keep the party going
  Grab a stranger make a friend
  I don't know where to go but I know that I'm

  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  I'm not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready to go home
  Not ready yet

  Oo I'll have another
  Can I get another
  Oo I'll have another
  Can I get another?

draft: false

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Third chapter of [*US*](/albums/us/), the after-hours turn. The club says capacity, the night says *we got a place that we go*. Ocean Avenue, Electric Avenue: coastal geography as party logic, shortcuts for when the official room is full.

The verses admit the cost (running, falling, bruises nobody can account for), but the chorus isn't moralizing. It sings the rule everyone already knows, *nothing good ever happens after 2 am*, while breaking it on purpose. The after-party isn't a location, it's a refusal to let the night end on someone else's schedule. **Nicole McCabe** is on alto saxophone, the right instrument for a song about staying out past when the room has closed.

Also on the chapter EP: [*AFTER-AFTER-PARTY*](/songs/after-after-party/), the hook-and-chorus sequel with no new verses.

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