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title: "watercolor sky"

meaning: "Look up from the river: pink-purple watercolor sky, garden breeze, mosquitos and all: spend more time outside, never worry."

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/watercolor-sky/1734387671?i=1734387737"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2O9X06yNiwLSJbL8MLGC49"

themes: ["nature", "sky", "hope", "I", "outside"]

isrc: QZDA62475492
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Ooo oh my
  Ooo oh my

  It's hard to look up when you're crossing a river
  Takes all you got
  To jump from rock to rock
  Water in my sock
  Uncomfortable and silent
  Take time to stop
  And look on up
  Remember where you're going
  And where you came from

  Under a pink and purple sky
  I never worry
  This is why
  I gotta spend more time outside
  Under a watercolor
  Pink and purple sky
  Oh my watercolor sky
  Oh my oh my

  It's love
  A little breeze
  Blowing through the garden
  The only hope I'm finding
  As the sun's beating down
  Mosquitos biting, take my blood
  Fill your belly, is that enough?
  Surely you could swallow me whole in time
  Hmm

  Under a pink and purple sky
  I never worry
  This is why
  I gotta spend more time outside
  Under a watercolor
  Pink and purple sky
  Oh my what a watercolor sky
  Oh my oh my

  Oh my oh my oh my
  Oh my oh my ooo
  Oh my (ahh) oh my
  Oh my ooo
  Oh my oh my
  Oh my oh my
  Oh my oh my oh my
  Ooo

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Track six on [*I*](/albums/i/), released ahead of the LP as a single. It opens as movement mindfulness: it's *hard to look up when you're crossing a river*, all your attention on rock-to-rock and the water in your sock, until the instruction lands (*take time to stop and look on up*). The reward is the chorus, nature as prescription after [*the cycle*](/songs/the-cycle/)'s harm loops: *under a pink and purple sky / I never worry*.

What keeps it from toxic positivity is that the beauty stays honest. The garden breeze is *the only hope I'm finding*, the sun is beating down, and the mosquitos get a verse of dark comedy: *surely you could swallow me whole in time*. Outside anyway. The *I* album's **look up** song.

Also on [Catalog](/catalog/) as a 2024 single.

[**Lou Roy**](/with/lou-roy/), background vocals.

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