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title: "Boardwalk"

meaning: "KŌAN A beach song: negative balance but Luffy straw-hat energy: on the boardwalk nothing to do while your friend counts millions and good depression meds; why did no one else come to the beach?"

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=-EYpF1Xsw2A"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EYpF1Xsw2A"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/kōan/1618191665"

press:
  - outlet: "Indie Shuffle — Boardwalk"
    url: "https://www.indieshuffle.com/scoobert-doobert-boardwalk"

themes: ["beach", "KŌAN", "One Piece", "class", "idle"]

isrc: QZFYZ2298245
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I got a text saying
  Got a negative balance
  I mean of course
  That's pretty obvious

  Straw hat
  I'm strutting around like
  Luffy by the ocean
  No need for money
  Cuz all I ever do is wander wander wander

  On the boardwalk
  Tryna have fun
  Ooo
  Feel my hair getting bleached by the sun
  Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
  See the tide rolling into the moon
  Ooo
  On the boardwalk
  Nothing to do
  Do do do
  Do do do do do do do do
  I'm on the boardwalk
  Nothing to do
  Do do do
  Do do do do do do do do

  I got a friend saying
  He made his first million
  I mean of course
  He's pretty selfish

  Empty pockets
  Never stopped us from feeling like this guy
  Checking out his
  Allocations across diversification
  Good depression medications
  Baby, why did no one else come to the beach?

  On the boardwalk
  Tryna have fun
  Ooo
  Feel my hair getting bleached by the sun
  Yeah
  See the tide rolling into the moon
  Ooo
  On the boardwalk
  Nothing to do
  Do do do
  Do do do do do do do do
  I'm on the boardwalk
  Nothing to do
  Do do do
  Do do do do do do do do
  On the boardwalk
  Nothing to do
  Do do do
  Do do do do do do do do
  I'm on the boardwalk

draft: false

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Track three on [*KŌAN*](/albums/koan/), **KŌAN A** (March 2022), also a standalone single. Luke solo. The setup is broke-but-free: a negative balance, *of course, that's pretty obvious*, and *strutting around like Luffy by the ocean.* One Piece as posture, not plot recap. The chorus is idle joy, *feel my hair getting bleached by the sun*, with *do do do* as the actual activity.

The sting is in verse two. A friend *made his first million*, *checking out his allocations across diversification / good depression medications*. Rich, medicated, diversified, and absent. Scoobert is the one on the sand with no money, asking *why did no one else come to the beach?*

Same coastal idle as [*a song to quit your job to*](/songs/a-song-to-quit-your-job-to/) and a preview of [*Moonlight Beach*](/albums/moonlight-beach/), though KŌAN A keeps the boardwalk as nothing-to-do on purpose before the later record commits to Encinitas. Pairs with [*Let's Move to the Top of a Mountain*](/songs/lets-move-to-the-top-of-a-mountain/): movement against wandering.

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