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Wrote this on 12/18/2012, days before the End of the World. It was sort of a remembrance of the year I had gone through, with changes and struggles and triumphs. But I waited another year, gained some perspective, and the idea of the song changed completely. It become more of a farewell, more of a final remembrance.

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I don't want to hear another word
I don't want to sleep another night
it's 30 degrees outside
and crystal clear

you're collecting all your bags
for your two week trip down south
the only direction is
south from here

wait 'til friday's passed
then I will say to you at last
nothing has really changed
I'm not surprised

those secrets in your head
are better left unsaid
the only question that's
left is why

a vision i still cannot see
maybe we are still so naive
hard to know if this is real
so how do you feel?
the final insecurity
pierce the coffin with the final nail
she wants a flawless excuse
so i'll give you twelve

i can't afford to run away
i don't want to wait another day
i'm 30 stories too high
and filled with fear

december nears it's end
i lied to myself again
i claimed that this would
be the year

a vision i still cannot see
maybe we are still so naive
no way to know if this is real
so how do you feel?
the final insecurity
pierce the coffin with the final nail
she wants a flawless excuse
so i'll give you twelve

annie you are okay
and you don't know this yet
every 10 days or so my heart
finds something broke within

and i've been here all day
all i do is wait
somethings i accept will tend to fail
but this won't be your fate

a vision i still cannot see
maybe we are still so naive
no way to know if this is real
so how do you feel?
the final insecurity
pierce the coffin with another nail
she wants a flawless excuse
so i'll give you twelve
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years go by
and i did just fine
in all that time
i never questioned why
now i
will forgive you
twelve

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from Absolute Zero EP, released November 29, 2013

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Leland Bailey San Luis Obispo, California

It all started in June 2012. Me, a beer, and a piano. I cranked out music to lyrics I hadn't touched in years. By the end of the week, I had finished my very first song. Of course, the story begins long before that.

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