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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
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

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Track five on [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/), Luke solo; [every song on the LP](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a single day. It sits between [*My Meddling Kids (Hallelujah Sexy)*](/songs/my-meddling-kids-hallelujah-sexy/) and [*Economic Kama Sutra*](/songs/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*](/songs/my-friend-scoobert/) and, later, [*Take a Breath*](/songs/take-a-breath/) (body panic on *Little Hug*), except the OG here is anxiety, not COVID.

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