Name: Last Days
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Description: Last Days deals with the disintegration of society and empire. It touches on authoritarian control and the loss of liberty.

Last Days

from Last Days by Matt Kjeldsen

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Last Days deals with the disintegration of society and empire. It touches on authoritarian control and the loss of liberty.

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Last Days

I try to enjoy every taste and excess
celebrate every moment of breath
appreciate all of the comforts of what is our home
on these, the last days of Rome

our wealth was created on a house of cards
the system was built to implode and discard
as if the charges were laid in the walls of our homes
set to explode on the last days of Rome

we still jeer and we cheer at our stadium games
but our shekels are no longer valuable exchange
the cost of our bread soars higher and higher and higher
‘til there’s no fuel for the fire

we’ve seen all of our hopes and our dreams vaporize
like black magic performed for our TV strained eyes
we toss all our freedoms to burn on a funeral pyre
on these, the last days of the empire

we look down on the beggars who sorely need love
we look to see we’ve been sprayed from above
the cameras are watching,
they track all our thoughts through our phones
on these, the last days of Rome

and men behind curtains dictate the decline
as the fall will bring chaos and order by design
where once the free and the brave made a home
what remains for us now are these, the last days of Rome
free men cut down by a drone
the last days of Rome
freedom left standing alone
on the last days of Rome

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from Last Days, released September 24, 2018

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Matt Kjeldsen Austin, Texas

With well over 1000 songs to his name and about one hundred independently produced and released albums over the past decades, Matt Kjeldsen is a veteran of the music industry and the eclectic Austin, Texas scene. His sound ranges in tone from irreverent to sublime, from angry to resigned, from simple tracks to grand soundscapes, from singer-songwriter to avant-garde groove designer. ... more

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