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title: "Ocean View"

meaning: "Deserted-island daydream with your person: tuna again, favorite book, movie uninterrupted: quiet simple life looking at the sea."

year: 2023
release: "Moonlight Beach"
releaseType: "album"

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

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

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/ocean-view/1675559395?i=1675559402"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2l5r7AyE9hDNI7VUH6FLlA"

themes: ["ocean", "love", "simplicity", "Moonlight Beach", "island"]

isrc: QZTB62253072
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Every day the same adventure
  Look at the sea
  Chilling just me and you
  Every day I cook you dinner
  Catch of the day
  It's tuna again, your favorite
  Make it the way you like it
  Deserted on an island
  Reading your favorite book
  I'm watching a movie
  No one interrupting
  Me and you

  Looking at an ocean view
  That's all we'll do
  A quiet simple life
  In a seaside town
  No one around to bother us
  From important things like
  Sitting quietly

  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Ooo ooo

  Take a walk around the island
  Not very big
  Be back in an hour or two
  Every day we go in circles
  Cause we got all we need around
  Me and you

  Looking at an ocean view
  That's all we'll do
  A quiet simple life
  In a seaside town
  No one around to bother us
  From important things like
  Sitting quietly

  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Ooo ooo
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Ooo ooo
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Looking at an ocean view, ooo
  Ooo ooo ooo

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Track four on [*Moonlight Beach*](/albums/moonlight-beach/), released as a standalone single ahead of the LP. [EARMILK](https://earmilk.com/2023/02/09/scoobert-doobert-basks-in-the-serenity-of-life-on-ocean-view/) heard laidback summer guitar, bass grooves, and calm ocean-facing pop, a preview of the whole record's posture.

A deserted-island domestic fantasy that keeps shrinking the world to fit two people. The island is *not very big*, so *every day we go in circles*, which is the whole ambition rather than a complaint.

Less joke than [*Shrimp Burrito*](/songs/shrimp-burrito/), less ecstatic than [*Feels So Good*](/songs/feels-so-good/): ocean view as enough. Pairs with [*Tired of the Sunshine*](/songs/tired-of-the-sunshine/) as the album's push-pull on California light.

Also on [Catalog](/catalog/) as 2023 single.

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