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What Makes You You
Metadata
- title
- What Makes You You
- meaning
- Quit music for Midwest duplex fantasy: boot camp, Roth IRA, delete Pro Tools; do you stay yourself when you lose what you do?
- year
- 2022
- release
- KŌAN
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/track/7FBNWiTOtsNfaG4LlIzwuA
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/song/what-makes-you-you/1618192114
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H33I3pAdmNs
- themes
- KŌAN
- identity
- music
- adulthood
- midwest
- isrc
- QZES92291016
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Thought about quitting music Moving to the midwest Buy a duplex Rent the other side Live a sensible life In a quiet suburb Maybe I could get a dog I'd probably have a backyard Plastic picket fence And a patchy lawn Maybe I could find an online Tech job Add to cart A six-month boot camp Do you stay yourself When you lose what you Do That which makes you you Thought about quitting music Selling all my guitars Buy a tv That could fill a wall Dedicate my time To fantasy football Maybe I could fund a A Roth IRA With all the cash I save Deleting Pro Tools Do you stay yourself When you lose what you Do That which makes you you You
Content
Track eighteen on KŌAN, KŌAN C (June 2022), after 無門関. Luke solo; YouTube video.
A sensible-life daydream, twice. Quit music, move to the Midwest (Ohio roots, I Live in California in reverse), buy a duplex, get a dog, add to cart a six-month boot camp for an online tech job. Verse two swaps the catalog: sell the guitars, buy a wall-sized TV, fund a Roth IRA with all the cash I save deleting Pro Tools. None of it is mocked. The fantasy is detailed because that's how the thought actually runs.
The hook breaks across lines so do lands alone: when you lose what you / do / that which makes you you. That pun is the song. Maybe what makes you you is the doing, not a fixed self underneath.
Written while recovering from Guillain-Barré, when guitar wasn't an option and the question had time to sit. Same recovery season as 無門関, with the personal arc in The Bent Stick (essai #1). Pairs with Who Am I Really Fooling Anyway and a song to quit your job to, actually quitting.
I also like Yu Yu Hakusho a lot.