Today we are highlighting even more of the superb lyrics on Brass Camel (2026), continuing with our two-week commentary on each one of the album tracks. We will conclude this week with our album review.

Here’s Daniel Sveinson of Brass Camel (electric guitar and vocals) on the ninth track of the album, “Last Call”:

The darkest song on the album, and the simplest.

We have a tendency to pack in a lot of notes and chords and changes into our tracks, and I wanted to challenge myself to write a dead simple song — great excuse to lean into some big Oberheim chords if nothing else!

Lyrically it came about after reading about civil war in Syria.

I recalled having read Shelby Foote’s account of the U.S. civil war years ago (fascinating but long and dry), having watched Hotel Rwanda not long before.

One thing that stuck with me is the period of seeming inevitability in so many civil wars — where both politicians and the populace know that things are tense but don’t know just how quickly things will unravel when the last straws are plucked.

It’s a terrifying thing to think about and it inspired “Last Call.”

Relevant lyrics:

“Board the doors

there’s no-one left to trust

your neighbours wave to you at dawn

and cut you down by dusk

the lines are drawn

those old ties come apart

you give in to the hatred that festers in the dark

and you won’t see the life until it’s buried in your heart

last call

we’ll fade to black

the dream is dead

there is no turning back”