§ [plucking cello strings,
tapping on cello instrument] §

- Monique: The name of the song
is "Goodbye."
- Chauntee: We wrote it,
really, at a time
where we were saying goodbye
to a lot of things and people
in our lives.
It was just a transitional time.
- Chauntee: It is,
it's pretty rhythmic, so...
§ [Chauntee sings melody
and snaps her fingers] §
I don't know.
It reminds me
of, just like, gospel music,
and just like
that repetitiveness of it,
which is a huge aspect
of gospel music.
Repeat, repeat, repeat,
you know?
- Chauntee: There's not
too many lyrics of this song.
"We're a piece of the puzzle,
"They try to put us under
"But when that didn't work
You better believe
it was the muzzle."
Like, we--
[laughs]
I think that was
pulling from a time
where it was kind of like, um,
where we necessarily
weren't being--
We felt like we weren't being seen, really, or heard.
And, and it was
just kind of, um,
just being women
in the music industry
sometimes, especially if you
aren't completely confident
in where you're at,
you can be really smooshed down.
- Chauntee:
There's this one riff
that goes throughout
the whole thing,
so it repeats itself, as well.
But then there is, um,
an improv section.
So, it's structured improv.
So like here, you can play
whatever you want, Chauntee.
[laughs]
And, like, have something fun.
And that's part of what
we like to do as SistaStrings.
- Monique: You can take
the same piece
and play it many times
and evoke something differently.
And I think
that's beautiful.

§ [Monique playing cello] §

§ [Monique playing cello
and Chauntee playing violin] §

- Chauntee and Monique:
§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

§ Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye §

- Monique: § We're a piece
of the puzzle §
§ They tried put us under §
- Chauntee and Monique:
§ But when that ain't work §
§ Better believe
it was the muzzle §
- Chauntee:
§ But see, I can't be solved §
§ I'm just tryna evolve §
- Chauntee and Monique:
§ They ain't gonna stop
my flow §
§ Just gonna let em blow §
§ Goodbye, §
§ goodbye, §
§ goodbye §

§ Goodbye, §
§ goodbye, §
§ goodbye §

§ Goodbye, §
§ goodbye, §
§ goodbye §

§ Goodbye,
§ goodbye, §
§ goodbye §

§ [Chauntee playing violin
and Monique playing cello] §
§ [instrumental improvisation] §

§ §

§ Goodbye §