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title: "singing for u"

meaning: "Devotion as vocation: life waiting on u, pride swallowed, every note only ever for you: music and love the same prayer."

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/singing-for-u/1734387671?i=1734387676"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49"

themes: ["love", "music", "devotion", "I", "u"]

isrc: QZES72489606
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  All of my life
  All of my life been waiting on you
  Swallow my pride
  Night after night
  Ignoring every other thing
  That isn't bowing to your holy scepter
  Kiss your finger

  Can you bless me with music music
  I give it all to music music
  I'm dreaming of the muses muses
  But you're the only one
  That I sing for
  Reaching out out the car door
  For you for you

  I'll only ever sing for you
  In every note in every tune
  I'm only ever I'm only ever
  I'm only ever singing for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  For you for you
  Ah

  Music music
  We're making love and music music
  I'm dreaming and I'm lucid lucid
  And you're the one that I fly with
  Soaring in the sky with you with you
  I'll only ever sing for you
  In every note in every tune

  I'm only ever I'm only ever
  I'm only ever singing for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  For you for you for you for you
  I'm only ever singing for you
  All of my life all of my life
  For you for you
  All of my life all of my life
  For you for you

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Track five on [*I*](/albums/i/), out ahead of the LP as a single. On a record where *I* is a moving coordinate around someone else, this is the vow: a working musician's *all of my life been waiting on you*, where even the dream of muses gets replaced. The job description rewrites itself, from singing **about** u to singing **for** u.

Not the grief of [*see you again?*](/songs/see-you-again/), not the distance of [*chasing the sunset*](/songs/chasing-the-sunset/). This is the present-tense yes.

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