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Linger Longer

from 12 Months a Year by Leslie Hudson

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"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is a very dear film to me. It puts me in a unique emotional space of vulnerability alongside characters who engage with change in different ways. Challenging tradition, expectation, assumption, while taking chances, living to love & feel connection, and risking the seeming-impossible.

Musically, I wanted to capture some of that feeling of stepping out in front of something, of diving under the wave instead of being knocked over by it, of the hope and adventure that can come at any age if you're open to starting again with the courage to see what happens when you do.

I want to believe, as they say in the film, "Everything will be alright in the end, and if it's not alright then this is not yet the end."

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I've been thinking about joy
and the kind they go to find
at the Marigold Hotel
in the heat and colour of the new

I've been thinking about time
and the way it tends to bend
around any truth we tell
with the ache and stutter of a few

Memory and sensation
linger longer than the choices do

I've been thinking about life
through the guise of ghostly eyes
at the boxes getting checked
on a list of happy coming true

I've been thinking about why
and the need to make it bleed
into probably just because
in a case of frankly wanting to

Ink and syncopation
matter more than all the voices
coming through
oh, they do
cuz they linger longer than the choices do

Would I lie to you?

Everything is gonna be alright in the end
and if it's not alright then this is not the end

Would I lie, would I lie
Would I lie to you?

Everything is gonna be alright
and if it's not alright then this is not the end

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from 12 Months a Year, track released March 21, 2022

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Leslie Hudson Stratford, Ontario

Leslie Hudson is a Canadian singer songwriter and pianist. Their albums range from storytelling styles to bluesy bar rock to dialed-up, full-band homages to pop culture. With lyrical piano skills and a voice that cuts through the crowd, their songs dive deep into archetype and folklore, modernizing ancient voices & shining a spotlight on the shadowy paths we walk through life, myth and media. ... more

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