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title: "I Am a Slave to the Yeast"

meaning: "Lockdown sourdough brain: agoraphobia, Stockholm love of home, fishes and beach people free but not me: lately leavened bread is all I eat, slave to the yeast."

year: 2020
release: "Masks and Monsters"
releaseType: "album"

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

credits: "Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/13zzM1QEnrvJ7kRwUGNIFw"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-am-a-slave-to-the-yeast/1526427944?i=1526428037"

themes: ["pandemic", "lockdown", "sourdough", "Masks and Monsters", "agoraphobia", "domestic"]

isrc: QZK6P2060460
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  The agoraphobia
  Is setting in
  Don't wanna go back on the outside

  That Stockholm Syndrome
  And now I only love my
  Home
  I only wanna make more sourdough loaves

  And then all of the fishes in the sea
  They wanna be free
  But not me
  Singing
  All of the people on the beach
  So careless and free
  But not me

  I am a slave to the yeast
  Homebrewing is taking over me
  Lately lately

  Say
  Lately leavened bread is all I eat
  A slave to the yeast

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Track fifteen on [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/). **Luke solo**, North Park lockdown, **August 2020**. The LP's sourdough song: the 2020 quarantine hobby as religious submission, the same domestic-comedy lane as [*Creature Comfort*](/songs/creature-comfort/) (*wash another pan*) and [*Pandemic Blues*](/songs/pandemic-blues/) (*moldy bread sandwich*).

Inside wins. Fear of leaving curdles into preference, then full Stockholm syndrome (*the agoraphobia is setting in*, *now I only love my home*), with the starter culture standing in for a personality. The bridge envies the world through the window (*all of the people on the beach / so careless and free / but not me*), an inverted *Under the Sea* where you don't actually want out. The chorus collapses the whole diet to levain: *I am a slave to the yeast / homebrewing is taking over me*, beer and bread both, fermentation as obsession.

Back-half MMM after [*Corona*](/songs/corona/)'s romantic terror, before [*Why, How, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah*](/songs/why-how-yeah-yeah-yeah/) and [*Mystery Machine*](/songs/mystery-machine/). Same can't-leave-the-house thread as [*Snuggle With Shaggy*](/songs/snuggle-with-shaggy/) (desert island by choice) and [*Flip Flop Phil*](/songs/flip-flop-phil/) (open mic elsewhere you can't reach).

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