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

Here’s Daniel Sveinson of Brass Camel (electric guitar and vocals) on the tenth track of the album, “This is Goodbye”:

Our first album “Brass” starts off with a song called “First Contact.” 

It’s been the plan for some time to title the third album “Brass Camel” which would conclude the “Brass”—”Camel”—”Brass Camel” trilogy,

and I got thinking that I’d love to conclude the album and three-album-arc with something along the lines of “Farewell” or “Goodbye.”

We listen to a lot of Gordon Lightfoot when we’re driving across Ontario

and I remember being surprised to find out that the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in 1975, only a year before the famous Lightfoot song came out.

Not every disaster song is about something that happened a century earlier!

I’m no fan of the billionaire class, as the lyrics demonstrate, but like seemingly everyone else in the western hemisphere my news cycle had been taken over by the Titan submersible catastrophe in late 2023.

There was a lot to unpack —

the un-relatability of being able to take a pleasure-trip to such an inhospitable place,

the foolish cockiness and disregard for others’ wellbeing displayed by the Oceangate CEO,

the suspense of waiting to know if peoples’ loved ones were going to be recovered

or whether they had been liquified by deep sea pressure…

it was all interesting stuff

and that’s what inspired this song about deep sea disaster. 

Relevant lyrics:

“No creature comforts

more like pigs in a sty

call it a chance for rich folks to spend a few hours walking in the shoes of you and I

like poor Aegeus, a proper burial at sea

in the form of a fine, powdered mist

too small for the eyes to see

pulverised matter takes the places of triumphs and hopes and dreams

so long

this is goodbye”