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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
- long distance
- California
- 2024
- press
- outlet
- 91X: Planet Nü Nü (Instagram)
- url
- https://www.instagram.com/p/C_b9pfFvyra/
- desc
- September 1, 2024 broadcast: Hilary host; chasing the sunset in Labor Day weekend stack; audio track on post.
- 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 subject 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 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; the 91x.com playlist log confirms it.
Brand sync: An instrumental of this song ran in rhode social and ads, one of two Scoobert Doobert instrumentals in that placement with Getting Easier. Beformer public material documents this song in a campaign featuring Claudia Schiffer, with Mean Machine credited; a second post matches the Hailey Bieber / rhode ads. See Catalog: brand and social sync · Press: Sync & placements.