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Damned
Metadata
- title
- Damned
- meaning
- Finding $D anxiety loop: hey momma hold me, OG anxiety dominates mind-soul: damned if you do, damned if you don't, afraid of missing out twice.
- year
- 2017
- release
- Finding $D
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/1RD1nblfKnDDT42FXZ0eZL
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/damned/1506552414?i=1506552559
- bandcamp
- https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/finding-d-lp
- themes
- Finding $D
- anxiety
- religion
- 2017
- isrc
- TCADN1849867
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Hey Momma Hold me Hey I need your touch Hey my brother Lift me Hey oh Jesus, stop Anxiety Oh Dominate my mind-soul My oldest love, OG Anxiety Give pity to your old friend I need to make a decision You're damned If you do Damned if you don't Damn damned if you don't You're damned If you did You're damned if you do if you did if you did You're damned If you do Damned if you don't Damned if you do Damn damned if you don't (Damn) People start a riot And they go spill they blood (Da da da) Anxiety Oh Dominate my mind-soul My oldest love, OG Anxiety Give pity to your old friend I need to make a decision Damned If you do Damned damned if you don't You're damned if you did Damned if you do if you did if you did You're damned If you do Damned if you don't Damned if you do Damn damned if you don't (Damn) Damned if you don't Damned if you do Ah Damned if you You're damned damned if you don't You're damned if you did Damned if you do if you did if you did You're damned If you do Damned if you don't Damned if you do Damn damned if you don't (Damn) Damned if you do Damned if you don't Damn damned if you don't Afraid of missing out Afraid of missing out
Content
Track five on Finding $D, Luke solo; every song on the LP was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day. It sits between My Meddling Kids (Hallelujah Sexy) and Economic Kama Sutra, and it treats anxiety as religion.
The intro calls for help in three directions, mother, brother, and a hey oh Jesus, stop where stop is both prayer and plea. Then the pre-chorus names the real deity: anxiety, addressed as my oldest love, OG, the longest relationship in the room.
From there the chorus takes the idiom and runs it until it breaks (damned if you do if you did if you did), with no exit branch left. A brief riot offers collective violence as a release valve before the loop closes back over it. The ending says afraid of missing out twice: FOMO as the decision the song never manages to make. Same dread register as My Friend, Scoobert and, later, Take a Breath (body panic on Little Hug), except the OG here is anxiety, not COVID.