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title: "Snuggle With Shaggy"

meaning: "Lockdown love song: desert-island studio with your only lady, PPE supermarket runs, neighbor's cough: waking up next to you makes stuck feel like snuggling Shaggy."

year: 2020
release: "Masks and Monsters"
releaseType: "album"

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

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

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/13zzM1QEnrvJ7kRwUGNIFw"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFPfLXFSA3A"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/snuggle-with-shaggy/1526427944?i=1526427963"

themes: ["pandemic", "lockdown", "love", "Masks and Monsters", "cartoon", "domestic"]

isrc: QZK6P2060447
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Imma kick on a desert island
  For another month or two
  Imma kick with my only lady
  I could waste my life with you

  Imma draw a cave painting
  I can sing a song for you
  Imma turn myself all culinary
  Nothing else to do

  Waking up
  Waking up
  Waking up
  Next to you
  Make me forget
  We are stuck
  We are stuck
  We are stuck
  No matter what we do

  Baby know that
  I am happy, yeah
  No matter how it seems
  Yeah, a nightmare or a dream
  Yeah, you make it all seem like

  Waking up
  Waking up
  Waking up
  Next to you
  Is all that I need

  Imma go and pick a wildflower
  Growing in the garden box
  Imma save you from our next-door neighbor
  Covering you when he coughs

  Imma go to supermarket
  Wearing all my PPE
  Studio, our little island
  Snuggle with Shaggy

  Waking up
  Waking up
  Waking up
  Next to you
  Make me forget
  We are stuck
  We are stuck
  We are stuck
  No matter what we do

  Baby know that
  I am happy, yeah
  No matter how it seems
  Yeah, a nightmare or a dream
  Yeah, you make it all seem like

  Waking up
  Waking up
  Waking up
  Next to you
  Is all that I need

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Track two on [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/): Luke solo, North Park lockdown, August 2020. After [*It Can Get Worse*](/songs/it-can-get-worse/) opens on nightmare logic, this is the intimate flip. Same trap reframed as a honeymoon: the apartment as a desert island, the partner as the whole cast. *I could waste my life with you*, and time dilates to make that sound like a plan.

The jokes do the emotional work. Lockdown hobbies become courtship (cave paintings, going *all culinary*), COVID paranoia becomes a romance chore (*covering you when he coughs*), the supermarket run becomes an expedition in full PPE. Under it all sits a fact you can't argue with by repeating, *we are stuck no matter what we do*, with the relief right on top: waking up next to you makes you forget. The title is pun and cuddle command at once, the partner you hide under the blanket with.

Same register as [*Creature Comfort*](/songs/creature-comfort/) and [*Shaggy's Anthem*](/songs/shaggys-anthem/), but here the mask is domestic warmth, not bravado. Pairs with [*Pandemic Blues*](/songs/pandemic-blues/) as the other "I've got it good" lockdown song on the LP.

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