"2-29" genre: Power Pop
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	Anthem for sad leap year babies with appropriate Peter Brady/Pan references.
	CD: First Day of Class
	Story Behind the Song I don't remember how I first got the idea to write a song about being born on a Leap Year. I didn't know of any and thought it might make a good subject. (Recently I found 93 year old Bill Cane's rilliant "Leap Year Lena" at http://mp3.com/billcane) I wasn't born on February 29th and I've never met anyone who has. I'm a pretty happy guy but I started thinking how it might be sad to be born on Leap Year and wondered if it might make someone sad for their whole life. It seemed slightly romantic somehow. I scribbled notes on anything that I could use relating to Leap Year's and, being an idiot, just about finished the song thinking that Leap Year's happened every FIVE years. Yes, I'm a college graduate. Lines like "Four years out of five/imagine being deprived" were quickly rewritten as were the more morbid lines like "When I'm close to death/I won't waste my breath/on 21 candles...". I hadn't written a song in almost three years but I started up again in 1999 and this was the first song I finished. I was hoping to play it somewhere in 2000 but didn't get to. Maybe 2004! I've always been curious what a Leap Year baby might think of the song and a few weeks ago, my mom called me and asked me to make a tape of the song for a co-worker who was born on 2/29. The woman loved it and wrote me a very nice thank you note. It's interesting hearing what people think about our songs but I'm especially curious about what other Leap Year folks think of what I wrote. Please drop us an e-mail or leave us a message in our band's guestbook at http://www.rookiecardthemovie.com/guestbook.html Lyrics I could walk and talk on my first birthday and by the next I was reading at the 4th grade level and by number 3, I felt so pre-teen and that's a tender early age to get so disenchanted but all the other kids seemed to take theirs for granted it's "Time To Change" forever Peter Pan would be better i hang my head and sigh and calendars pass me by ahead of my time on 2/29 2/29 i'm sorry bout your belated valentine 2/29 it's never too late to say that you'll be mine so you think it's rough being born near Christmas? try coming out on a day that doesn't exist in 3 years out of 4 i'll have faith no more in my god given right to closing eyes and making wishes the combo of the hats and those stupid paper dishes call me on march 1st if you've got the nerve i could stand the test of time if they graded on a curve and don't go counting candles that's more than i can handle i might live long but won't get to see 29 2/29 i'm sorry bout your belated valentine 2/29 it's never too late to say that you'll be mine privileges of youth have been revoked sooner than i hoped i'm aging faster at a quarter of the speed my will to live don't have a lifetime guarantee i wanna leap off the deep end i hope i fall on a weekend...

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