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Meteor Shower
Metadata
- title
- Meteor Shower
- meaning
- Cowrite with Jamie Drake: meteor or firefly, wishes always spent on you: leopard sharks underneath, worthy of happiness if you believe it.
- year
- 2023
- release
- Moonlight Beach
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written by Luke Francis Walton and Jamie Drake. Performed by Scoobert Doobert featuring Jamie Drake. Mixed by Luke Francis Walton.
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/meteor-shower/1675559395?i=1675559405
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/2l5r7AyE9hDNI7VUH6FLlA
- themes
- love
- Moonlight Beach
- collaboration
- devotion
- Encinitas
- isrc
- QZES52386550
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
We watched the meteor shower Rain down It cutting through the sky Confused whether or not That one was just a firefly I brush a mosquito off of your shoulder As one bites my thigh You tell me make a wish I spend it on you every time We paddled out over the Leopard sharks that swam right underneath Water so clear that you Reached down, pretend to take a drink Dandelion picking on the shore You tell me that this wish is mine I spend it on ya I spend it on you every time You're worthy of finding happiness I know you sometimes doubt that Don't believe it You're worthy of finding love But only if you believe that Then you'll find it It's possible, yeah, it's possible Ladybug landing on your wrist An eyelash on my thumb I wish for many more wishes So that you'll stick around for them You're worthy of finding happiness I know you sometimes doubt that Don't believe it You're worthy of finding love But only if you believe that Then you'll find it It's possible Yeah, it's possible It's possible It's possible Yeah, it's possible
Content
Track seven on Moonlight Beach, cowritten with Jamie Drake (feat. on the LP). Drake's debut Everything's Fine landed NPR, PopMatters, and Flood praise; this is the collaborator-record moment on a beach LP built for hanging out. See also the New Girl remix on the same thread.
A night at the shore counted out in small creatures: meteor or firefly, leopard sharks under the paddleboard, a ladybug on the wrist. Every wish goes the same place: I spend it on you every time. The bridge says it plain, you're worthy of finding happiness, with the catch that you have to believe it first, and the last line turns devotion into a small con: I wish for many more wishes / so that you'll stick around for them.
Less joke-forward than much of the catalog, closer to it gets better but rooted in place. One of the tracks that makes Moonlight Beach a collaborator record, not only a solo mythology dump.