The second song on the new album is “Don’t Let it End”. This song features the oldest, at at least fifteen years, melodic idea on the album. Matthew re-discovered this idea in an old tape that Theron had sent him years before and decided it would work nicely for the song. Matthew wrote the lyrics for “Don’t Let it End” after a visit to Chicago, little knowing he would be moving there a year later. In fact, Navy Pier is visible from the window of his apartment. The song was originally written about aging, but has multiple meanings now. This was the first song recorded on the album - in the summer of 2009, in Chicago overlooking Navy Pier.

Lyrics: Once I rode the ferris wheel Overlooking Navy Pier Suspended over land and sea Awaiting my decline A voice inside me sighed Don’t let it end Swaying in the summer breeze High atop the wheel There’s a moment I feel so free And I want to stay And as the wheel Took me down A voice inside me cried Don’t let it end Don’t let it end

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