Name: While It Lasted (feat. Lizzy Hilliard)
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: Right before quarantine my good friend Lizzy Hilliard and I scrambled to the studio to record the bare bones of this song before being kicked off campus and sent home. I had written this song in a single session one particularly sad night, and its been haunting me ever since. I'm very excited and relieved to finally get this one out of the recesses of my mind and desktop hard drive.

While It Lasted (feat. Lizzy Hilliard)

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Right before quarantine my good friend Lizzy Hilliard and I scrambled to the studio to record the bare bones of this song before being kicked off campus and sent home. I had written this song in a single session one particularly sad night, and its been haunting me ever since. I'm very excited and relieved to finally get this one out of the recesses of my mind and desktop hard drive.

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Here's the deal
I'll pay in full
I'll take all the things I was supposed to buy for you someday
And donate them to the Salvation Army
If that's enough
I don't know
I'd rather not think about it
About all the things that we were going to be

There's a lot to be said of an empty head
But it goes in one ear and out the other

So I can't afford to say "I love you"
Not this time, I am broke, and a little bit the bastard but it's true
And I can't afford to say "I need you"
When I'm blue I think about all things we would do
And it just makes me sadder

Here's the deal
Let's pretend
Let's pretend that we were never friends
Never anything more than neighbors
Cut the cord
Hang up the phone
Block my number, I'll block yours
And we'll never have to speak of this again

There's a lot to be told about growing old
But it flies by one year then it's over

So I can't afford to say "I love you"
I'm still broke, getting old, and I've missed too many parties 'cuz of you
But I do believe I owe you something more than an apology
And I can't afford to say "I need you"
So I don't, I go home
I don't even think about the way that you
Used to tell me all about your dreams
And staying up late to watch evening TV
When your folks weren't home

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released February 14, 2021
A single by Valentine's Day and Lizzy Hilliard

Lizzy Hiliard - lead vocals
Dane Leoniak - guitar, backing vocals, production
Evan Sayer - trombone, trumpet
Max Monheit - mellotron
Sam Stern & Nate Rowe - moral support

Special thanks to Miriam Arrey and Olivia Leoniak for art production assistance

Music and lyrics by Dane Leoniak
Recorded in part at WBRS, Waltham (and in part at Dane and Evan's apartments)

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