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It Is What It Is

from Black by The Enigmatic Foe

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A phrase my mother says to me. She says it in response to something that is out of our control resulting in reluctant acceptance. The song was originally meant to be included on my first professionally recorded EP, Favourite Hallucination. Frank Lenz liked the song, but felt we didn't have enough time to record it. When it WAS finally recorded, Josh Dooley took this song and had it completely done before I arrived to work on it. I only added vocals and a guitar solo but the song is entirely his instrumentation and I couldn't be happier with the turnout.

lyrics

It's what it is and life goes on and on
every single day you're clinging to
make a simple choice to let it go, let go

I built a bridge since you don't give a damn at all
the ebb and flow is inevitable
you didn't think that it would be like this
you left your friends without a goodbye kiss
now you're lonely, riddled with regret
it is what it is
it is what it is

credits

from Black, released September 4, 2009
Jared Colinger: vox, guitar
Josh Dooley: guitar, keys, bass
Mike Perez: programming

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The Enigmatic Foe Knoxville, Tennessee

With sharp lyrics, the playful pop bite of the best of the 70s and 80s, and the kind of self-deprecation usually reserved for a Woody Allen movie, Jared Colinger's lyrics run the gamut from the joy of new love to disillusionment with the old, from wanting to like yourself to being afraid of what we have in our minds.

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