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title: "golden state of mind"

meaning: "I closes on California as state of mind: Coronado Bay, Catalina, Sierra drift: worries washed away, picnic-by-fire, golden ease not golden hustle."

year: 2024
release: "I"
releaseType: "album"

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

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/golden-state-of-mind/1734387671?i=1734387746"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49"

themes: ["California", "peace", "nature", "I", "travel"]

isrc: QZES92483682
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  The birds up in the tree all say good morning
  The rain wishing the shore a good day
  The water in the river always flowing
  Washing all my worries far away
  The sky is peeking through its cloudy fingers
  Don't be shy the sun wants out to play
  A rainbow as a cloud tries to linger
  Every brilliant color on display

  I'm Coronado dreaming on San Diego Bay
  I'm drifting on a current ease of mind
  On Catalina Island
  Sierra mountain side
  I'm drifting on a golden state of mind
  I'm drifting on my golden state of mind

  A vineyard on the hillside in the evening
  A misty little picnic by the lake
  Pretending like we never used a light bulb
  Talking by the fire about fate

  Everyday I'm Coronado dreaming on San Diego Bay
  I'm drifting on a current ease of mind
  On Catalina Island
  Sierra mountain side
  I'm drifting on a golden state of mind
  I'm drifting on my golden state of mind

  The birds up in the tree all say good morning
  The rain wishing the shore a good day
  The water in the river always flowing
  Washing all my worries far away
  Washing all my worries far away
  Washing all my worries far away

draft: false

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Track thirteen, the [*I*](/albums/i/) closer. Coronado, Catalina, Sierra: a coast-to-mountain slice of the state, mapped in drift mode rather than hustle. The line that gives it more than postcard is *talking by the fire about fate*, the LP's only verse where the *u* and the *I* sit still long enough to argue cosmology. Everything else is the album exhaling.

The second turn of the Möbius cycle finishes not on a cliffhanger but on ease, before [*US*](/albums/us/) begins its chapter EPs in progress.

[**Lou Roy**](/with/lou-roy/), background vocals.

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