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The Last Gravedigger

from Letters to Everybody by Bad Knights

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This was the first song I ever wrote; the one that started it all.

It was lockdown and all that. The setting for this song was consequently an end-of-days, pre-apocalyptic scene, for viral or pandemic reasons. It tells two superimposed stories, from opposing perspectives. The first is the human perspective, where we see how different people, from different walks of life, learn to accept and deal with the world ending, and how they eventually face their imminent death. The second perspective is that of the animals’ - where none of them really give a damn about the humans or the Earth perishing (except for the dogs, maybe), because they are simply enjoying the little bit of freedom and peace that the looming apocalypse has granted them.

The Last Gravedigger, being poetically narrated by the last man on Earth, carries an alternate message at its core – one stressing the importance of climate change awareness and the need to reflect critically on how we’re living and how we’re treating the living beings with whom we share this planet.

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The day we learned, it was time to go
still packed our bags for no reason
Some carried bread, some had chocolates
though, they won’t need those in heaven

The boys going down, grabbed some cigarettes
They said hell ain’t a pretty town, but atleast its got some fire
The dancing girl screamed to the skies - that's unfair
but the skies just screamed blue

The world got high
The day the we died
The world got high
The day the we died

The cows did flips, the birds they sang
There was no one left who missed a man

But the dogs still gave a damn
the dogs still gave a damn

The nurse sat in the hall, she had no more to give
Hey, there’s a lot of lives worth saving
just one to live

Old soldiers got no more wars to fight
he found his peace of mind, he said
Dying ain’t what it used to be, boys
And he's died
many times

And the last gravedigger
sipped his last beer
He’s got one more hole to dig
no more to fill

When sun went down that night
he'd go down too
The worlds one big prison
when its only you

It was bright on that darkest night
the whales and birds
they sang along
as gravedigger, he downed his last beer
and as he wrote his last song.

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from Letters to Everybody, released November 11, 2022

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