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lyrics

At an early age I went through a Poe phase
Friends & family still call me Ulalume, but you can call me June
These days I'm a bit of a nervous wreck
I got a tongue for biting & hands for writing some bad, bad checks

​Pop some pills; chase the sun; run, run, run 
Until the whole web has been spun, spun, spun 
Steady weaved my way through and endless run of days
Spent most of my childhood chasing the best ways to receive praise

​I could use a place to crash, but I'd settle for some cash
Burned so many bridges I erased the past

​Spent a decade or two floating through 
Albuquerque, Sacramento, Lake Havasu
Men coming & going, gravitating & flowing
Like cattle to the Karasu

Still baby-faced but these grays betray a somber senescence 
Aging isn't the waiving of a white flag, it's an acquiescence

My late Pa, rest his soul, 
Where he lies I'll never know 
He had a simple mantra
An American take on that 'ol Buddhist tantra:
‘Here for a good time, not a long time
The sun is yours. But the moon is mine’

‘Here for a good time, not a long time
The sun is yours. But the moon is mine’

Hear the angels sing

*The skies they were ashen and sober
The leaves they were crisped and seared
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year*

*Adapted from the poem, Ulalume, by Edgar Allen Poe

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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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