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The Last Funeral

by Travis Bracht

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heckgermany Been waiting a looooong time for Travis to put something new out, and this is a welcome addition to his former bands. Cool that it's got former band members as well. One of hard rock's most underrated vocalists. Rock on Travis, we want more, man.... Favorite track: The One.
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mikethetripp brutally honest. an inspiring punch to the heart Favorite track: The Last Funeral.
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Ritual Ker My favorite song of 2020 Favorite track: The One.
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1.
Fragile Fingers glide Across my skin Painting Pictures of The love we begin And I'm Home And I Could never let this Go She is My dying breath Escaping me She is My one last wish That I'll never see But I'm Lost How could I have been Such a fool to believe in You? Love is just religion I've felt your void I've seen your lies Again To think all the songs We've written praising your name What a sin... Laughable To hear them say That you'll find a way And how I thought That Constantine Will find me someday
2.
The Gypsy 05:07
Look at the ground you walk on Do you even recognize my face? I am The Gypsy Save all your condescending looks I'm dirty from all the roads I took To be The Gypsy But I feel nothing My heart blackened A long time ago Yet I see everyone's pain When you get tired of faking life You can sit by me Feeling the rain upon my neck I'll sing you a song of my neglect As you avert your eyes It's getting colder As my sins wash down the cobblestone Painting the streets with my blood alone I can say I'm good down here I've come to accept That life is a struggle Though it's hard sometimes I've always come to find That the real ones Sit beside me and play along with me
3.
The One 05:17
We pierced them good Outside the station We tore them out At Cam Ranh Bay We set them all ablaze As we would erase our time Together We trampled the hearts Of which were bleeding with gold We troubled their minds So we could steal their souls Remember those who cried We are the unified We stood on the shores And waved your sons goodbye with you Look what we've done, Mothers Look what we've done We are The One Took 14 days for them to track us We fell harder than the rain Then Berlin skies opened on us Then we brought Hell. We are The One.
4.
Proudest day of my life February 4th, 1999 Born with the damn cutest grin "You got my eyes and you got your Momma's chin" I will tell you with my last breath Cuz I ain't got very much left But there's one final thing that I want you to hear And I'll sing it at the top of my lungs so it's clear... I love you, son. I will back you forever Through the good and the bad You're the best goddamn friend This 'ol boy ever had I love you, son. I knew ya had "it" When you were barely 4 When I handed you the mic At a Second Comin' show The years have flown by I watch how you change Now you're a man With whiskers on your face So I'll tell you with my last breath Cuz I ain't got very much left If there's one final message to pass on to you, And I savor each word so you know that their true... I love you, son. Can you hear the emotion engrained in my voice? This Father's love will never die for this boy I love you, son. Life ain't always so kind But if you use mine as your guide, You're in for a hell of a ride! One day your Daddy's gotta go But in the meantime I need you to know: "YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY BOY." "YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY BOY." "YOU'LL ALWAYS BE YOUR DADDY'S BABY BOY." I love you, son.
5.
I've been hearing a lot about another world Where everything is perfect and clear I hear people talk about it constantly But it's never shown it's face around here Take me away from here Show me all my sweet dreams in colour I will find you and never let you go I wanna feel what it's like In a perfect world I wanna feel what it's like To be safe at home, in the arms of a girl I wanna see what it's like In a perfect world I've seen the words, "I love you" falling from your lips But he's the one with you at home I know I said that I'd wait for you forever But I'm too scared of dying alone Take us away from here Show us all our sweet dreams in colour Just find me and never let me go My Chineseface My Alabama I wanna feel what it's like In a perfect world
6.
Forever 99 05:01
Say it ain't so I don't wanna go I was comin' up in this world This was my heaven The faces of all The paint on these walls I'll miss this... My heart is slowly breaking I never had a home like this Turn out the lights And say your goodbyes This highway will roll forever Forever 99 Let's have a toast And raise our glass high We are Forever 99 You gave me a stage I gave you my soul You wondrous cave I'll always hold dear All the notes that I wrote in here
7.
Got the mind of a killer I got the Devil inside me Lord knows... I ain't no ordinary man They still try me But they find I ain't no ordinary man Got a hole in my chest Ice in my veins No more feeling equals No more pain And I'll say it again: I ain't no ordinary man I been payin' the price Of all my sins I reckon I could repent Or just sin again I think I'll keep on sinning' I ain't no ordinary man I'll smile as I cut your throat I ain't no ordinary man Just a ghost among you all I ain't no ordinary man
8.
Hallelujah 07:36
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10.
I can only dream of darkness I would love to leave this place As I'm walking in the daylight I can only see your face (But you knew that anyway...) Close the lid on me I leave everything to my son "Don't leave me now" I've seen everything Everything... Seems like nothing here is sacred Can't wrap my head around the fact that you're all gone Lord, I can't believe y'all left me here I miss the beating of your hearts Your bleeding hearts Close the lid on me I leave everything to my son My new friends Lower me down Sprinkle the dirt Wait for your turn

about

Not your run of the mill polished album...on purpose. I wanted to capture the true character of the voice, warts and all, so you can FEEL the honesty while hearing it in the same moment. I can say it was a very liberating experience as I have always been one to ensure vocals are perfect. So instead of take after take until it was perfect, we just ran each song a couple of times and called it good. The feeling was still there...coupled with the live and unstable feel of truth and honesty. The only time we, as humans, can be totally honest is through music's reflection. Glad to get this shit off my back...

credits

released January 1, 2020

-Travis Bracht (vox, guitar, piano)
-James Bergstrom (drums, percussion)
-Tor Dietrichson (percussion)
-Jake Carden (bass)
-Kyyle Cort (keys, piano)
JT Phillips (guitar)

Featured artists:
-Triston Bracht (vox/track 10)
-Dudley Taft (lead guitar/track 7)
-Kelly Gray (lead guitar/track 10)
-Indrajit Banerjee (surbahar sitar/track 1)

Recorded glassless and live at London Bridge Studios, Seattle, April 15th, 2019

Engineered, Mixed, Produced and Mastered by Kelly Gray, earner of infinite banana stickers. Cheers to another notch in our belt, brother.

All music and lyrics by Travis Bracht except:
"Hallelujah" music and lyrics by Leonard Cohen
and
"Wrapped In My Memory" words and music by Shawn Smith

This musical tombstone is dedicated to the most remarkable work of art I have ever completed; my beautiful, baby boy, Tris. "I love you more."

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Travis Bracht Seattle, Washington

"Yeah, I really don't wanna get into it. Just listen to the fuckin' record if you wanna know about me."

~T

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