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Tired of the Sunshine
Metadata
- title
- Tired of the Sunshine
- meaning
- California contradiction: blame Mercury retrograde, want alone-but-not-alone: tired of the sunshine on a beach record, feat. Bubby Lewis.
- year
- 2023
- release
- Moonlight Beach
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- DistroKid credit pane: Music and lyrics, Luke Francis Walton (BMI 00579587572). Producer, mixing engineer, recording engineer, drums, guitar, synthesizer, and singing and vocals billed as Scoobert Doobert. Bass, Bubby Lewis. Mastering engineer, Riley Knapp.
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/tired-of-the-sunshine-feat-bubby-lewis/1675559395?i=1675559403
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/2l5r7AyE9hDNI7VUH6FLlA
- themes
- sunshine
- Isolation
- Mental health
- California
- Moonlight Beach
- Collaboration
- Bubby Lewis
- isrc
- QZES62358096
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
I blame it all upon the weather It's some damn external thing Never an internal thing I blame it all upon another How could they treat me that way? Mercury in retrograde Ah, hanh, ah, hanh, ah, hanh I don't wanna be alone But I wanna be alone Don't wanna be wanting anyone In my home I don't wanna be home When I'm out, I get tired of the sunshine Ooo, tired of the sunshine Ooo, I'm tired of the heat Ooo, take me to a mountaintop Where I can rest Self-help books Make me feel productive Not like I change anything But I keep on reading Little educational videos Waste my days on trivia What's the capital of Bolivia? Ah, hanh, ah, hanh, ah, hanh I don't wanna be alone But I wanna be alone Don't wanna be wanting anyone In my home I don't wanna be home When I'm out, I get tired of the sunshine Ooo, tired of the sunshine Ooo, I'm tired of the heat Ooo, take me to a mountaintop Cause I'm tired of the sunshine But I can't be tired of the sunshine Why would I be tired of the sunshine Think I'm crazy tired of the light I'm tired I'm tired of the sunshine But I can't be tired of the sunshine Why would I be tired of the sunshine Think I'm crazy tired of the light I'm tired I'm tired of the sunshine But I can't be tired of the sunshine Why would I be tired of the sunshine Think I'm crazy tired of the light I'm tired Ah, hanh, ah, hanh, ah, hanh
Content
Track five on Moonlight Beach. The DistroKid credit pane lists music and lyrics as Luke Francis Walton, BMI 00579587572. Producer, mixing, recording, drums, guitar, synthesizer, and singing are billed as Scoobert Doobert. Bass is Bubby Lewis. Riley Knapp mastered it. Spotify for Artists emails added it to sunshine indie on May 21, 2023 (9:17 a.m., 84,846 followers) and Summer Indie on May 27, 2023 (12:27 p.m., 349,808 followers). Luke wrote it; Bubby Lewis played on the track (feat. on the LP), a collaborator on a record that's otherwise sunshine-and-bonfire California pop.
The chorus names the album's shadow side as a clean paradox: I don't wanna be alone / but I wanna be alone. It's the honest counter-melody to Feels So Good and its commercial-perfect joy. The blame stays external (Mercury in retrograde) and the coping is theater: self-help books, trivia videos, what's the capital of Bolivia?
California as obligation as much as gift. Pairs with golden state of mind on I as the later, easier answer.