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title: "Scared to Reunite"

meaning: "Big Hug post-pandemic re-entry: people see what they want, keep faith for a better place: champagne sunset, fight over little things, all the world scared to reunite."

year: 2021
release: "Big Hug"
releaseType: "album"

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

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/3dW4LbP8381fYkKBdBxiFn"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/scared-to-reunite/1585121212?i=1585121223"
bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/big-hug-lp"

themes: ["Big Hug", "post-pandemic", "reunion", "faith", "2021"]

isrc: QZMEP2188959
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  I kinda get the feeling that
  People just see what they want
  Can never find the meaning of
  What's right and what's wrong

  Let me tell you baby
  If we're keeping our faith
  We gon find a better place
  Just you and me
  Hope to promise that

  But I
  I wonder how much time
  My days are crying why
  I don't know what I'm doing
  Just keep moving through the night

  I tend to question life
  What can it decide?
  How much to feel
  When all the world is
  Scared to reunite

  I tend to watch the sunset
  With champange
  In a tall glass
  Hoping and wishing
  For love to last
  Cause still some people
  Fight over the little things
  Yes the little things

  I
  I wonder how much time
  My days are crying why
  I don't know what I'm doing
  Just keep moving through the night

  I tend to question life
  What can it decide?
  How much to feel
  When all the world is
  Scared to reunite

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Track ten on [*Big Hug*](/albums/big-hug/) (**October 2021**), Luke solo. It's the LP's re-entry song, post-lockdown reunion anxiety played straight, without the satire register of [*Don't Worry*](/songs/dont-worry/) or [*I'm an Idiot*](/songs/im-an-idiot/). It sits after [*If I Could Only*](/songs/if-i-could-only/) and before the Supremes cover *Where Did Our Love Go* and [*Debby (Extended)*](/songs/debby/).

The verse opens in moral fog, *people just see what they want*, no shared map back to normal, and answers it with a couple-faith promise: keep faith and *we gon find a better place, just you and me*. Intimacy as the plan when the world won't cooperate. The chorus is the thesis, feeling capped *when all the world is scared to reunite*, and the song never lets it resolve. Even the luxury image, watching the sunset with champagne in a tall glass, sours into *some people fight over the little things*.

Same therapeutic Big Hug thread as [*When It's Over*](/songs/when-its-over/) (MMM, defer love until after the plague) and [*A Little Hug*](/songs/a-little-hug/) (EP, small comfort after isolation). Here the problem is everyone's fear of being together again.

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