Nathan Young is tired. He's sore from drumming. After 12 years, he's had his fill of the touring life — traveling from city to city in a bus or van, waking up, playing a concert and moving on to the next venue. It's exhausting.

While some bands don't even last for a year, Young and the other members of Anberlin decided in January that it was time to call it quits. They recorded a final album over the summer and they're wrapping up their final tour in a few weeks.

Young says he's ready to retire from the road. He's only 27.

"A lot of people don't even get started until their mid- or late 20s," Young says. "I've been pretty much on one tour since I was 15. It's been a crazy experience."

In a couple weeks, Anberlin will play a hometown show in Orlando on Nov. 26, and then the members of the alt-rock quintet will go their separate ways. But before frontman Stephen Christian releases his worship album, and before Young opens a coffee shop with his brother-in-law, Anberlin will take one more step toward its final gig by performing at the Fillmore on Nov. 21.

"I think [this tour] is confirmation that we did the right thing," Young says. "With a final tour, it's going to be bigger and more crazy than the shows we've done in the past. It's a celebration of our career and 12 years of being a band. It feels right, across the board. People that we respect and that we've toured with over the years have shared their thoughts about how we're going about it and they respect it and think it's rad."

The band is performing a wide range of songs from all its albums on the current tour to satisfy Anberlin fans old and new. They thought about what they would want to see at a final show of one of their favorite bands. They can't just play the favorites, just as they can't focus on their final album, Lowborn, which was released in July.

Young says he's been hanging out after shows as much as possible to meet fans and thank them for their support. The overwhelming flood of family, friends and emotions at each show has become a blur, but he tries to find time to soak it all in. He makes time to get off the bus and visit cool bars or coffee shops, perhaps to get ideas for one of his own, and see what each city has to offer.

"You can get into a routine of doing the same thing," Young says. "You've gone to a city 15 times and feel like you've done it all and seen it all. I've been determined to make the most of it and that's been even more so on this tour. I don't think I've squandered any opportunities."

Anberlin has always viewed touring without taking it for granted, but they've taken an especially laid-back approach this time around. If something goes wrong, they shrug it off. Who wants to remember the last time in a city as the one where it didn't sound right?

"We're not letting anything get us down," Young says. "If there are technical issues, we just let it fly. I'm definitely more sore than I've been in the past, too. The other night, my brother, his wife and all their friends were there and I played too hard. I could barely move when the show was over."

Too often, a band breaks up while they're off the road and fans never get a chance to say goodbye or celebrate the music. The members of Anberlin feel like this is the best way to do it. That any reunion might sour the taste of this final run. Don't expect them to reappear on a future Warped Tour. They played it this summer, before touring Europe, Asia and America.

The band announced its plans in January, but had talked about it before then. Sure, maybe not everyone was on board from the start, but Young says they're all on the same page now.

"There's personal things that we'll probably never fully go into, but we all knew it was time, even if we didn't fully agree 100 percent," Young says of the band calling it quits. He says he can't imagine touring with another band. He played with Yellowcard earlier this year, but says session work is probably the only performing he'll do in the future.

"I've been doing it half my life. I don't know what it's like to fully live in a city," he says. "I've been married for almost six years and I'm looking forward to being home. The last couple of years, I've been working to start up a coffee company with my brother-in-law. The goal is to open a beer and coffee place in Tampa and make our city cool. I'll never not play music, but I'm definitely done with heavy touring. I don't feel like I'm retiring young, I'm just ready to start the next step and I'm thankful that I'm still young enough to do it."