The stories behind One Last Round

• Liner Notes: The Bare-Bones Second Take of One Last Round — Take one builds to a warm, full chorus. Take two strips the song down to a single fingerpicked guitar and never fills back in.
• One Last Round Is a Send-Off Song for a Retiring Biomed Tech — A veteran technician spends a last week walking a newer tech through the small, unwritten things worth passing on.

Lyrics

One more round of these halls before I go

One more badge scan, one more hello

Thirty stickers on my old tool case

half of them are stations i can't quite replace

van alarm still knows my name by sound

I got one more week to walk this

ground one last round

one last round before

this bench belongs to you

One last round,

one last round

Learn where the quiet corners

sound

They say a third of us will be gone inside five years

Packing up our cabinets, hanging up our gear

So I'm walking you the loop I've walked so long

Showing you the shortcuts nobody taught me I just found

It's not the ceremony, it's not the cake

It's showing you which cartwheel always sticks

and shakes

It's the one soft one

Before a heart long rings

That's the only thing worth passing on

That thing's one last round

One last round before

this bench belongs to you

one last round one

last round Learn where the quiet

corners sound One last

round, then it's yours to keep

One last round, then I

finally sleep