1) Last Days (a.k.a. Grah… Read Full Bio ↴There are several artists named Last Days.
1) Last Days (a.k.a. Graham Richardson's) music explores personal themes of stasis and flux, escape and acceptance, security and upheaval. Drawing his moniker and ethos from the bittersweet emotions that often accompany periods of transition and loss, Last Days contrasts the intimacy of lonely field recordings and elementary instruments (a child's accordion, a single repeated piano note) with cinematic shoegaze swells and complex, interlocking melodies created by the latest in digital technology. The resulting mixes are often melancholy, but ultimately hopeful, acting as musical elegies to the places we can no longer go.
Growing up in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Richardson pursued music sporadically, playing drums for local bands before shifting his focus and detouring south to study graphic design. Completing his degree in 1997, he applied his trade in the mental health field but, after four rewarding, yet creatively stifling, years, decided to pack up his recently acquired PC, mic and guitar, and head north to Scotland. While the mood certainly preceded the move, Edinburgh’s darker, colder climate and close proximity to nature proved influential in developing Last Days signature blend of brooding synths and pastoral neo-folk. Inspired by the likes of Eluvium, Sigur Rós and Jasper TX, Richardson continued writing and revising in relative obscurity until February 2006 when he was discovered in Port-Royal's Myspace friends list by Mike Cadoo (a.k.a. Bitcrush) of the Oakland-based n5MD Records. With nine tracks already in the can, the timing could not have been better, resulting in the release of Last Days full-length debut "Sea" just seven months later.
Noting his penchant for writing soundtracks to lonely, isolated places, Richardson devised a unifying narrative for "Sea", which chronicles the hapless travels of a disillusioned man who, leaving his family behind, sets sail to find a new home. Through a combination of eerie, abstract set pieces, signpost song titles, and bleak cover art by Liam Frankland (another Myspace find), "Sea" captures the anxiety, confusion and yearning of a man lost at sea with only his ill-defined desires to guide him. Released to near-unanimous praise, Sea cemented Last Days reputation as a member to watch within the UK's burgeoning electro-acoustic ambient scene.
Just months after the release of "Sea", Richardson began writing material for its follow-up, a meditation on the inconstancy of "home." Released on n5MD in early 2007, "These Places Are Now Ruins" finds Richardson in far more personal territory, tracing a semi-autobiographical trip through the resonant locales and experiences of his adolescence. Book-ended (save the closing epilogue "Traveling Hearts") by "Stations" part 1 and 2, TPANR’s main body mourns the diminishing comforts afforded by fading memories and the lonely detachment that comes with discovering your "home" is no longer tethered to a tangible place. Opting for a warmer, more “realistic” approach, Richardson cuts back on the aimless synth washes of "Sea", anchoring the majority of these musical snapshots (like the memories they’re exorcising) in the familiar realm of live instrumentation, intimate field recordings, and emotional post-rock builds.
For his third full length, "The Safety of the North" (2009, n5MD), Richardson has fully embraced his cinematic tendencies, expanding his creative palette to include spoken excerpts, a vocal collaboration with Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees, and a "script-based" compositional approach. Drawing on a theme first explored in "Sea"'s "Arrival at Jan Mayen" (in which its sailor is first excited by the prospect of a distant island home, then disappointed by its barren terrain), TSOTN tells the story of Alice, a young girl who leaves the city with her family to settle in the rural north. With a strict script in mind, Richardson divided the album into 15 "scenes", scoring each with a new focus on the emotional states of his characters and the settings they inhabit. Using the same tools he employs on "Sea" (i.e. field recordings, song titles, and album art), along with snippets of dialogue, monologue and new instrumentation, Richardson guides the listener through Alice’s initial departure, hopeful beginnings and eventual tragedy.
With an approach both abstract and melodic, lo-fi and hi-tech, yearning and content, Last Days has consistently yielded music that, despite its largely digital origins, is all-together human.
2) A punk rock band from Voronezh/Russia, formed in 2005. All started when drumer Oleg Mulat meet with Anton Berdnikov (vocal/guitar). Then they meet masterbasser Pat and began to play. But one guitar is not to much and Cid invite his old friend Dmitry Platon who plays the guitar.
Their name propose band guitar/vocal Cid. They combine elements of pop, punk, punk rock, ska, and alternative. Now Last days starts to record a demo. They are young an full of energy and ready to the big show.
3) A hardcore band from Dresden/Germany.
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Last Days Lyrics
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If you made it worthwhile
You know I'd be the first to say
How much I want you
Want you to stay
If you care to sit down
If you just took some time
How much I want you
Want you to stay
It could be oh so simple to say
How much I want you
Want you to stay.
The lyrics of "If You" by Last Days of April are an appeal to someone to stay. The singer is saying that if this person brings happiness and makes their time together worthwhile, they would be the first to acknowledge it and express how much they want them to stay. They go on to say that if this person simply takes the time to sit down and talk to them, they would once again express how much they want them to stay.
The lyrics don't indicate who this person is or why they may be leaving, but the singer's appeal for them to stay suggests that they have a strong connection and perhaps even love for them. The lyrics overall are quite simple, but the repetition of the phrase "how much I want you, want you to stay" emphasizes the singer's desperation to keep this person in their life. The song is poignant and relatable, as many people have experienced a similar longing for someone they don't want to lose.
Line by Line Meaning
If you came with a smile
If you showed up looking happy
If you made it worthwhile
If you made the effort of coming here worth it
You know I'd be the first to say
I want to let you know that I would be quick to express
How much I want you
That I desire your company deeply
Want you to stay
That I hope you choose to stick around for a while
If you care to sit down
If you're willing to take a seat and talk
If you just took some time
If you could spare some moments for me
It could be oh so simple to say
It's really quite easy to express
How much I want you
My strong desire for your presence
Want you to stay
My hope that you remain here with me
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LYRICS
My best friend gave me the best advice
He said each day's a gift and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less traveled by
That first step you take is the longest stride
If today was your last day
And tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past
Donate every dime you have?
If today was your last day
Against the grain should be a way of life
What's worth the prize is always worth the fight
Every second counts 'cause there's no second try
So live like you'll never live it twice
Don't take the free ride in your own life
If today was your last day
And tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past
Donate every dime you have?
Would you call old friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories
Would you forgive your enemies?
Would you find that one you're dreamin' of?
Swear up and down to God above
That you finally fall in love
If today was your last day
If today was your last day
Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who you are
So do whatever it takes
'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life
Let nothin' stand in your way
Cause the hands of time are never on your side
If today was your last day
And tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past
Donate every dime you have?
Would you call old friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories
Would you forgive your enemies?
Would you find that one you're dreamin' of?
Swear up and down to God above
That you finally fall in love
If today was your last day
@jimstepro1666
I've found, this Song touches many different aspects of Life. Perhaps, more to the Choices we make?
Live your own Life! Don't take the Path that Everyone else does. That reminds me that Everyone is just Faking their way through Life! Following the Leader? Whoever that might be?
I know, I see many people stepping up, to have people follow them.
Another point I noticed, Declaring you found Love. Scream & Shout it, not necessarily out loud? Lol
But then again, why not? Basically saying to me, don't hide your Feelings! Life is too short, not to share how you feel. And we Never know? Tomorrow, might be Our last day?
Last Important point, I'll go with. Processions. Giving away your last Dime. Of course there's also the picture. Don't bother looking at the Past. Look forward, Move forward!
Just some of the things, I've picked up on. I felt this was a good place to Share!
Peace
@greg3275rt
After I lost my wife this song helped me become the dad our 12yo daughter needed and deserved. I will be forever grateful to whoever wrote this song.
@awesomeninjadude1658
God bless you mate!
@fayterzeru209
Wish you the best man
Keep moving forward
@scrapbookgirl61
Chad wrote this song.
@troy6254
Sorry for your guys' loss. Make your mark by mending a broken heart.
@zeptic3195
God bless you and keep you strong.
@PamelaMandy
2023 and still listening to Nickelback. The song reminds me about giving our best in everything, each day we have as if it's our last day.
@nicoleyulan3790
These days, people don't live like this.. "If today was your last day.." People are too busy taking their life for granted.
@connerSphotography
Sorry some of us are struggling to make it to that point. I wish I could live my best life everyday but it doesn’t happen like that. I literally just got torn down again for the 100th time can’t live your best life when your always picking yourself up.
@mikelapier716
@connerSphotography stfu and buy a motorcycle