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What will make this easier for you?
Haven’t I done enough?
Where do you see this going for you?
To live outside of love?

Scraping away the sins of the day
Contending with your words
Believing yourself when your name is a lie
Isn’t that absurd?
Fooling yourself that your fears are outside
Do you need me to pretend?

Can I care to comfort you when
It’s easy to pretend
The only thing I’ve gotten from you
Is nothing more than “friends”?

Wasting away in palatial estates
Created by your world
Becoming again. All the time you pretend
That you’re any other girl
Keeping me here against all of your tears
Do you need me to pretend?

Is this what you can expect for now
Or is there any other trend?
I’ll not be a party to the party that
Asks me to befriend
A woman I love, no other above
Who needs me to pretend.

Ignoring the things and the night that it brings
There isn’t any way
Complicit in me and your need to be free
That’ll get me through the day
I’m wasting my time on a girl that I find
Doesn’t find me as enough
So go your own way.
So now go away
Because I can’t pretend.

credits

from Goodbye Singing Songs, released February 13, 2009
Words/Music: Holmquist

Vocals and guitar: Craig Holmquist
Keyboards: Tim Oesau
Guitar: Greg Mazzuco
Bass: Damon Lee
Drums: Christian Nesheim

Produced by Ed Ackerson with Empire Garrison at Flowers Studio, Minneapolis, MN.
Engineered by Ed Ackerson.
Additional recording by Tim Oesau at Infinitim, Minneapolis, MN.

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empire garrison Minneapolis, Minnesota

2001: empire garrison is formed as a power trio.
2003: eg increases in size by 33%.
2005: eg releases Independent on the fourth of July.
2007: eg again inflates by an additional 25%.
2009: eg releases Goodbye Singing Songs on Valentine's Day.
2012: eg continues to release songs on holidays, but stands fast at 5 members at the time of this missive.
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