Emily

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Tommy Wallach Hey Emily!

Thanks for the kind words on the music. "Countdown" is indeed the song that Anita and Andy write together and sing at Chad's place. I allowed them the same liberty that I take in my music: namely that every song is a combination of my real emotion intermixed with some fictional storytelling. So yes, I imagine that Andy was thinking of Eliza when he wrote it, and how her rejection of him (romantically) spoke to a kind of belief that there would always be more opportunities for love in the future. But Anita is the one who sings it, and I can see her twisting of the lyrics a bit to make it more general in terms of stuff like "You offered the moon/So where's my fucking moon?" Hope that makes SOME amount of sense!

-t

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