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title: "it gets better"

meaning: "Reassurance for someone cloudy: ray-of-sunshine pep talk, Pacific north-star love, garden-and-family warmth: it gets better, maybe tomorrow."

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/it-gets-better/1734387671?i=1734387743"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49"

themes: ["love", "hope", "reassurance", "I", "partner"]

isrc: QZES82478724
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  You're my ray of sunshine
  Don't you be cloudy
  Darling so bright, what's getting you down?
  I'll cheer you up
  And warm ya, make it all better
  Ray of sunshine
  Will you come around?

  It gets better
  It will get better soon
  It gets better
  It will get better soon
  Ooo ooo
  Ooo ooo
  Ooo ooo
  Ooo ooo ooo

  You're the light of my life
  Moon on the water
  My north star on a lonely Pacific
  You're my ray of sunshine
  Nurturing our garden
  Warming up our family
  Through the dog days of winter

  It gets better
  It will get better soon
  It gets better
  It will get better soon

  Maybe tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Maybe tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Maybe tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Maybe tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
  Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow

  Ooo ooo
  Ooo ooo
  Ooo ooo
  Ooo ooo ooo

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Track twelve on [*I*](/albums/i/), penultimate before [*golden state of mind*](/songs/golden-state-of-mind/) and also released as a single.

The move is **partner-as-sun, reversed**: she's *his* ray of sunshine, but today she's cloudy, and the job is to warm her back. The whole album moves west, forward, *u*-ward: *I* is defined by propulsion. This is the track that pauses and just holds someone. The language scales up as the song settles in: *ray of sunshine*, then *light of my life*, then *north star on a lonely Pacific*, then *nurturing our garden / warming up our family through the dog days of winter*. The metaphor gets more grounded and domestic the more it opens out.

Then the bridge refuses to close: *it gets better / it will get better soon* gives way to *maybe tomorrow* looped until the word loses its edge. It's not a promise, it's a rhythm. The *maybe* is doing real work, the song knows it can't guarantee the weather turns, only that you can stack *maybe* until it starts to feel like evidence.

Pairs with [*see you again?*](/songs/see-you-again/) (who isn't here) and [*sunlight*](/songs/sunlight/) (brightness as choice). [Nagamag](https://www.nagamag.com/the-latest/it-gets-better-scoobert-doobert) reviewed the single. See also [Catalog](/catalog/).

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