[Intro]
So my dad, uh, said to me when I got married
He said, um
"You will not know what real love and marriage is
Until there's death and there's, uh, real sickness"
And he said this because, uh, that happens when he first married my mum
There was a real, real grief that happened in the family
And real, real sickness that also then ended up in grief
That they both had to go through
And he said that that really brought them together
And hе just said that once that happens it's an unbreakablе bond
And you can't, you can't ever break it
And um, ya know, I've been married now almost five years
And uh, he, ya know, I've always felt real, real closeness
But last year was when that sort of unbreakable bond was made
And I know, I know you should feel that before with, ya know, marriage and then children and then, and blah, blah, blah
But I really feel like
We got through 2022, we can get through anything, basically
And I wanna say, like, we're, we're nearing, we're nearing the end of "Subtract" now, too
There's two more songs, thank you for sitting through this
Little procession
This is my favorite song on the album
Might be one of my favorite songs I've, I've ever written
Uh, and it's called "No Strings"

[Verse 1]
If we make it through this year
Then nothin' can break us
Trouble leaves, then reappears
But we've shown we can take it

[Pre-Chorus]
We tear our hair out and overthink it
Work and get burnt out

[Chorus]
But this is no strings, you are who I love
And that won't change when we're fallin' apart
Yeah, this is no strings, you are who I love
It's just growin' pains

[Verse 2]
If we make it through this year
We should celebrate it
Rarified atmosphere
Till now, we evaded

[Pre-Chorus]
We tore the walls down to build them up
Never was in doubt

[Chorus]
But this is no strings, you are who I love
And that won't change when we're fallin' apart
Yeah, this is no strings, you are who I love
It's just growin' pains

[Bridge]
We did not fight for love
Just to let it be defeated
What we're goin' through is common
But, it doesn't mean we don't feel it
It would be easy just to give it up
I know we've got enough reason
But every time that we have come undone

[Chorus]
I'll say, "It's no strings, you are who I love
And that won't change when we're fallin' apart
Yeah, this is no strings, you are who I love
It's just growin' pains"