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title: "Getting Easier"

meaning: "Imagining fatherhood before it exists: plant-parent trial run, drowned cactus, California fire and drought: wanting someone happy and a little lazy on the clouds until ready gets easier."

year: 2023
release: "MÖB"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/getting-easier/1708670332?i=1708670343"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB"

themes: ["fatherhood", "California", "love", "MÖB", "readiness"]

isrc: QZMEN2323458
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I wanna wake up in your orbit
  Gravity keeping us warm forever
  Maybe you and I become plant parents
  To prove that we could do it together
  Oh no, I killed our tiny cactus
  Overwatered, drowning in doubt
  California soil, out of practice
  Where a cigarette meets record drought

  Oh, throw me into the fire
  Oh oh, meet me under the waterfall

  Yosemite is turning green again
  Older trees are turning to ash
  A phoenix from a wildfire
  Rising out from under the snowpack

  Summer, what a throwback
  Wildflower
  Hashtag California superbloom
  I hate it when you say that
  I thought nothing was perfect
  I thought nothing was worth it
  I'm thinking that I didn't think it out enough no

  Oh, throw me into the fire
  (Will I ever be
  Will I ever be
  Will I ever be ready)
  Oh oh, meet me under the waterfall

  Oh, throw me into the wildfire
  Oh oh, meet me under the waterfall

  Nothing is ever easy
  But it's easy
  I want you to be happy
  And a little lazy drifting on the clouds
  Nothing is ever easy
  But it's easy to me
  I want you to be happy
  And a little lazy drifting on the clouds

  Nothing is ever easy
  But it's getting easier to me
  Nothing is ever easy
  But it's getting easier to me

draft: false

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Track ten on [*MÖB*](/albums/mob/), penultimate before [*All I Need*](/songs/all-i-need/). Luke's note: **trying to conceive of being a father**. He does not have kids yet, so the song is rehearsal, not report.

**[Vinyl Moon Vol. 100: *Century*](https://vinylmoon.co/products/vol-100)** (VM Club **Dec 2023**, 2× LP milestone release) — **B1**, opening side B ([Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/3361636-Various-Vinyl-Moon-Volume-100-Century) · [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7eRBlvq93T9EXDqaUPkFxu) · [AR experience](https://ar.vinylmoon.co/vm100/)). The Century placement is the bigger vinyl win in the public trail; Vol. 066 carried [*Take a Breath*](/songs/take-a-breath/) earlier ([/catalog/#vinyl-moon](/catalog/#vinyl-moon)).

The fantasy starts small and honest. *Maybe you and I become plant parents*, then *I killed our tiny cactus*, overwatered, *drowning in doubt*: parenting anxiety scaled to something you can kill on a windowsill. Verse two widens to the state, Yosemite green again while older trees turn to ash, and to a crack in the relationship (*I hate it when you say that*), before the bridge asks the real question under the fire and waterfall: *will I ever be ready*.

The chorus is the answer he can give now: *I want you to be happy and a little lazy drifting on the clouds*. Not a kid yet, a wish. *Nothing is ever easy*, but the title lands twice: *it's getting easier to me*. This is *MÖB* trying on adulthood without pretending it's arrived.

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