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Metadata
- title
- omw
- meaning
- Lead single for I: fast-lane homecoming: Trader Joe's frozen dinner for two, hand out the window, moon over the mountain, and nothing in the world beats being on my way back to u.
- 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/omw/1734387671?i=1734387739
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49
- officialVideo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utz-0iIg0EE
- themes
- love
- travel
- homecoming
- I
- u
- California
- isrc
- QZHN32444129
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
I'm on my way to you Do you want me to stop by Trader Joe's? A frozen dinner for two I'm driving in the fast lane On my way to you, oo On my way to you, ooo I'm on my way to you On my way to you Omw Sunsetting at the end of the road Got my hand out the window And I'm tapping along to the rhythm Moon rising up, up over our mountain Yeah, on the horizon is my destination Feeling elation Like a vacation To be coming back home to you I could travel all the world Looking for something to do But nothing is as good as Nothing like being on my way To you Do you want me to stop by Trader Joe's? A frozen dinner for two I'm driving in the fast lane On my way to you, oo On my way to you, ooo I'm on my way to you On my way to you Omw I'm on my way to you Do you want me to stop by Trader Joe's? A frozen dinner for two I'm driving in the fast lane On my way to you, ooo (On my way to you) On my way to you, ooo (On my way to you) I'm on my way to you, ooo Omw Ooo omw, omw Ooo omw, omw Ooo omw, omw
Content
Track eight on I, the lead single ahead of the LP. EARMILK heard anticipation after a long time apart: warm nostalgic pads, guitar plucks in the bridge, laid-back vocal runs, paired with an AI visual of a dog on his way to meet his favorite cat.
The hook is domestic and specific: do you want me to stop by Trader Joe's? / a frozen dinner for two. Not a grand romantic gesture, a grocery run on the drive home. The whole song is the text-speak title, the stretch between departure and arrival, and the bridge echoes time with u: you could travel all the world, but nothing like being on my way back.
On a record written across the Grand Tetons, Sierra Nevada, Mount Whitney, Shinkansen, and PCH, this is the home vector. Motion isn't wanderlust, it's the fast lane toward u. Pairs with don't drive sleepy and that's how u know i love u.