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Chase The Feeling

The 1995 song "Chase The Feeling" describes watching someone spiral with unflinching detail.

Emmylou Harris visibility 30 visits Editor's note

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Editor's note

Emmylou Harris sings about addiction's grip

The 1995 song "Chase The Feeling" describes watching someone spiral with unflinching detail.

Chase the feeling 'til you die

"Chase The Feeling" appeared on Emmylou Harris's 1995 album "Wrecking Ball." The lyric describes someone caught in a cycle of self-destruction.

The phrase "Chase the feeling 'til you die" repeats like a grim mantra. It's a plain statement of compulsion, not an argument.

It's a flat, terminal declaration. The song circles back to it, refusing any other resolution.

Harris doesn't moralize or diagnose. She just lists the wreckage: "let it run your children off and let it run your wife."

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Chase The Feeling

It takes one to know one,

baby I know how you feel You got your hunger And some problems that are real And you're dealing with some demons Who are driving you insane And I've seen them drag you screaming Down the hallways of your brain And you got loaded again Ain't you handsome when you're high Nothing matters Chase the feeling 'til you die Let it right on in there,

baby Let it run your life Let it run your children off And let it run your wife Let it take the joy you love And turn it to despair You knew you knew better,

baby You just didn't care And you got loaded again Ain't you handsome when you're high Nothing matters Chase the feeling 'til you die Blame it on the moonlight,

baby Think of number one Tangled up in two When you were shining like the sun With some pretty piece of hunger Who was younger than her eyes On a scale of cosmic thunder It's a wonder you're alive And you got loaded again Ain't you handsome when you're high Nothing matters Chase the feeling 'til you die Nothing matters Chase the feeling 'til you die Nothing matters Chase the feeling 'til you die