52 this year of the last piece of this puzzle, I guess
Was a lot of things. I thought that this particular
Volume would be just the orphans. It would be the leftovers of
me trying to make things fit that just didn't fit and
I
Know when I first started out because I was trying to do these linearly
I was I was in fear of what this last one might look like that it was going to be the worst and
I started to play a game with myself of
What I call best song wins
right, I it doesn't matter where it comes from or why or whatever, but it is best song wins and
literally until about
Two weeks before due date. It was going to be a record of love songs and
I scrapped it and I went back to the drawing board because I
had
sort of in the background constantly been concerned about what is the best song and
I decided that the best song was the song that felt the most true
Which is a song called New Year's resolution number seven
Which is the last song on this whole collection and it is a conversation that I'm having with myself
Literally on New Year's Day
Beside my fireplace in my house trying not to wake anyone else in the house up
As I was writing it, I also had the record button down and
I kept getting it wrong. Like I
kept not being able to get through it because I was crying and
Typically when I start crying while I'm writing it's cuz I'm on the truth and
It took me seven tries to do it. That's why it's number seven
Even after all these things were put together
That song is why I went back and started to say well what songs are true
really true
that are here and
They weren't the leftover Lego pieces. You gotta understand they were
There were hundred it was like college applications. There were hundreds of songs applying for these 14 positions, right and
It became one of the hardest ones to put together
because of that
so it is a very
diverse sort of little journey, but in
Essence, I realized that this is the end of catching you up as a listener
Over the last 15 years of my life to get you to where I am
Because we have a lot of work to do
But I can't start this work until we get you here
I think about the songs that didn't quite make it and I think well, you know, maybe they'll have a life somewhere else
But I'll tell you what. I didn't leave anything unsaid