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title: "Take a Breath"

meaning: "Little Hug sleep-paralysis song: voodoo on the bed, demons on the chest: take another breath, it's all in your head, then Goku's nimbus over Cardiff-by-the-Sea."

year: 2021
release: "Little Hug"
releaseType: "EP"

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

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

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/08qm91rIDQEj86DoQWiNyB"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKODjwOHgO4"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKODjwOHgO4"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/take-a-breath/1558296985?i=1558296992"

themes: ["Little Hug", "anxiety", "sleep paralysis", "recovery", "Dragon Ball", "Encinitas", "Cardiff-by-the-Sea"]

isrc: QZMEM2082677
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Pinned down to my bed
  Like some kinda voodoo
  Ooo
  Dark visions of demons
  Weighing on my chest
  I can't bear it

  Take another breath
  It's all in your head
  Don't worry 'bout a day dream
  I'm petrified
  And falling into my bed
  I'm terrified and waiting

  Take another breath
  Yeah take another breath
  Take another

  All that I can do is panic or give in
  My body is no longer mine to live in
  Fall free

  Take another breath
  It's all in your head
  Don't worry 'bout a day dream

  I'm petrified
  And falling into my bed
  I'm terrified and waiting

  Take another breath
  Yeah take another breath
  Take another

  Take another breath
  Take it
  Take another breath
  Take it
  Yeah take another breath
  Take it

  I fly on the back of Goku's nimbus
  Ooo
  I'm soaring above the shores of Cardiff
  Fly fly

  Take another breath
  It's all in your head
  Don't worry 'bout a day dream

  I'm petrified
  And falling into my bed
  Terrified and waiting

  Take another breath
  It's all in your head
  Don't worry 'bout a day dream

  I'm petrified
  And falling into my bed
  I'm terrified and waiting

  Take another breath
  Yeah take another breath
  Take another

  Take another breath
  Take another breath

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Track six on [*Little Hug*](/albums/little-hug/) (**April 2021**), also a **2020** standalone single ahead of the EP ([Where the Music Meets](https://www.wherethemusicmeets.com/2020/11/06/scoobert-doobert-take-a-breath/)). **[Vinyl Moon Vol. 066: *The Comfort of a Dream*](https://vinylmoon.co/products/vol-066-the-comfort-of-a-dream)** (VM Club, Feb 2021) — **A2** on the gatefold LP ([Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/2054416-Various-Vinyl-Moon-Volume-066-The-Comfort-Of-A-Dream)). Luke solo.

It opens inside sleep paralysis: *pinned down to my bed / like some kinda voodoo*, demons on the chest, *ooo* the only sound a frozen body can make. Against that, the title runs as a wellness script that can't quite land: *take another breath / it's all in your head / don't worry 'bout a day dream*. Same failed-instruction logic as [*Don't Worry*](/songs/dont-worry/) on [*Big Hug*](/albums/big-hug/) a few months later, except here the command is survival, not satire. The body just loops between freeze and collapse (*I'm petrified and falling into my bed / I'm terrified and waiting*), and the middle break names the worst of it: *my body is no longer mine to live in*.

Then the escape hatch: *I fly on the back of Goku's nimbus / I'm soaring above the shores of Cardiff*. That is **Cardiff-by-the-Sea**, the same North County shoreline as Swami's and the Cardiff Kook in the [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/) origin lore, not Wales. [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/) cartoon flight over home coast: one image rather than a lore dump. (Goku's cloud is itself a borrowing, the somersault cloud [Sun Wukong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong) rides in *Journey to the West*.) A few blocks inland, his first guitar lessons were at [American Music Store](https://www.americanmusic.store/) in Encinitas with [Jeff Moore](https://youtu.be/bKoeCzARCTU?si=2kP--wq9lUQlC3PD) — Bud Whitcomb is the founder and former master guitar technician of American Music Exchange (AMX Music), with over 40 years in instrument repair and setup in the area — still playing the same coast (The Kraken, Cardiff, 2022). That neighborhood shop is also where he first fell in love with the local music store, a thread that later led to his NAMM career. No cure follows, only the hook repeated as practice. Little Hug's body-panic track, before the record learns to joke again ([*Can't Imagine Feeling Better*](/songs/cant-imagine-feeling-better/)).

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