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chasing the sunset

Metadata

title
chasing the sunset
meaning
Post-I distance song: map the country to where your person is going, floor it west chasing the light, and name it forever love at the tarmac.
year
2024
release
chasing the sunset
releaseType
single
artist
Scoobert Doobert
artistId
#scoobert
credits
Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton.
apple
https://music.apple.com/us/album/chasing-the-sunset/1756822706?i=1756822707
youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMSS8iSfNo
officialVideo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMSS8iSfNo
themes
  • love
  • distance
  • travel
  • California
  • I
press
isrc
QZRP52470916
isrcSource
soundexchange
draft
false

Lyrics

Home is where your heart is
So which way you going?
Hawaii or Boston College
i need a new sweater

Is Atlanta close to Savannah?
I'm down with chicago
I guess Indiana… (ehh)
How about Denver?
I mean, wherever you go I go
With love

Chasing a sunset
I'm flooring it
Wanna take in every second
I'm driving out to ya
Pushing through the summer wind

Yeah, I follow the colors
I'm heading out west
Believe that I could do it
I'll dive in the water
So our light will never dim

We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun (Sun)
We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun sun sun

We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun

I'm saying goodbye at the tarmac
Waving and holding my tears back
Hollowest pit in my stomach
You've done it now

This ain't just summer love, no
This is forever love

I'm chasing a sunset
I'm flooring it
Wanna take in every second
I'm driving out to ya
Pushing through the summer wind

Yeah, I follow the colors
I'm heading out west
Believe that we could do it
I dive in the water
So our light will never ever have a chance to go away
Don't go away, yeah

We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun (Sun)
We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun sun sun

We'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun (Sun)
And we'll follow the sun (Sun)
We can follow the sun (Sun)
We'll follow the sun
We can follow the sun

Content

Standalone single (August 9, 2024 · Beformer), released after I (Jun 14, 2024) but not on the LP tracklist. Same relational lane as the album (wherever you go I go), except here the geography is literal and the stakes are airports.

Verse one is the American map as love language, Hawaii or Boston College, Atlanta or Savannah, Chicago, Denver. Half geography quiz, half willingness test, and the answer isn't a city: it's with love. The chorus turns that into motion, flooring it west, following the colors, we'll follow the sun stacked until it's a mantra.

The turn is the tarmac, tears held back and a hollow stomach, then the line that reframes it all: this ain't just summer love, no / this is forever love. The second chorus quietly shifts I could to we could. A distance song that refuses to treat distance as temporary.

@91xsandiego spun it on Hilary's Planet Nü Nü (Sep 1, 2024 broadcast) — Instagram audio track attached; 91x.com playlist log corroborates.

Brand/social sync: Chasing the Sunset was included in a rhode campaign featuring Claudia Schiffer. Beformer public material and Instagram posts also document two rhode social-ad placements using Scoobert Doobert instrumentals, with Mean Machine credited and language describing rhode and Hailey Bieber tapping Scoobert Doobert again for ad music — brand/social sync, not a TV buy unless usage terms separately confirm that. See Catalog: brand and social sync · Press: Sync & placements.

See also: I · Catalog.