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lyrics

Whatever you’re chasing
Just let it go
There’s rarely resolution
So let it go

​You left me with no coda
Silent as the Sioux
Suffering through the Dakotas
Thought I knew ya
But no one could ever know ya
And you always said that you can’t con a conman
Your delivery it was always so Goddamn deadpan
Well Goddamn

Whatever you’re chasing
Just let it go
There’s rarely resolution
So let it go

​I’ll never understand the ending
There’s too many fences in need of mending
And you had a tattoo that said “Welcome”

Over your left breast
You were an open door, a disheveled guest
So this is it: no closing remark or passage
No uttered adage … just empty space

​Is it black or white?
Is it fight or flight?
The cougar, the coyote at night
Is it black or white?
Is it fight or flight?
The cougar, the coyote at night

All those army men, in the trenches thin
Talking slowly and smoking back when
All those army men, in the trenches thin
Talking slowly and smoking back when

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from Standing Eight Count, released March 31, 2023
Music by Instant Empire
Lyrics by Scotty Saunders

Published by Olde Oaks Music (SESAC)
Administered by Instant Empire Music (SESAC)

Produced and recorded by Sean Connaughty
Mixed and mastered by D. James Goodwin at The Isokon, Kingston, NY Additional recording by Rich G at Ghosthouse, Denver, CO

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Chroniclers of the human condition.

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