This eventually turned into "That's Just The First Bell." On this recording, the arrangement is a little different and the lyrics are completely different from what eventually ended up on EP001. This was the first thing we worked on when we all started playing together, and we had the song structure almost completely written and arranged within 2 weeks of meeting each other (there is actually a recording of it, 1 week after we met, but it is such bad sound quality that it must never be loosed upon the public). This recording is from early December of 2002, about a month after we started playing together. I wrote most of the lyrics, and I think we eventually threw them out and considered this song "unfinished" cause they were too melodramatic and self-pitying, and the vocal lines didn't have enough melody. The song stayed that way, in limbo, until September of 2003, when I heard a new drum beat in my head while I was taking a shower one day and showed it to Matt. That changed the feel of the verse sections and I wrote new lyrics around the new version, we restructured some of the arrangement, and the song was finally done, for real, a couple days later.
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