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Lodgepole Pines

from Cathedrals by Instant Empire

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lyrics

And I’m not sure you were ever any good for me
But I guess you’re what I needed at the time
Like a stone throne across a surface
I’d gone too far out on my own

From the juniper desert to the lodgepole pines
Been wandering around, trying to find
Some kind of connection
Some kind of truth, buried in sediment

My trajectory receding
And gravity pulls
And always impedes me
I’d gone too far out on my own

My heart is closed for restoration

From the juniper desert to the lodgepole pines
Been wandering around, trying to find
Some kind of meaning, some kind of connection
Some kind of truth, buried in sediment

Fossilized, captured in time
And some say we find everything that we seek
And if that’s true then I am the winter wind
I’m the Amarillo sky

My heart is closed for restoration
Just give me some time
Let the cosmonauts float from station to station
And I’ll remain here gravity bound
Watching their contrails slowly … disappear

Disciplined, the traffic engineers study our daily patterns
There was a fire in the canyon, now all the cavemen have lanterns
Euclid provided mankind the golden ratio, now everything’s predictable
Blood on our hands, we’ve murdered the mystical
And if you can’t prove it, it doesn’t exist
Yet in fits and starts, light fights its way to the jungle floor
Vines growing in spite of the darkness
CHLOROPHIL! AND THE GREEN EYES OF THE JAGUAR

credits

from Cathedrals, released June 14, 2019
Music by Instant Empire
Lyrics by Scotty Saunders

Published by Point/Counterpoint Music (SESAC) and
Olde Oaks Music (SESAC)
Administered by Instant Empire Music (SESAC)

Produced and recorded by Sean Connaughty
Additional recording by Rich G at Ghosthouse, Denver, CO
Mixed by JD Feighner at Vineland Sound, N Hollywood, CA
Mastered by Jon Tornblom at Transparent Mastering, Hamilton, ON
Harmony vocals provided by Emma Cole

Artwork and layout by Luke Giltner

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