We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Anything but That

from Last Chance by Last Chance

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

This song is about my dad, and his two year losing battle with Alzheimers — one of the most evil diseases you could ever imagine. I was struggling with losing him (two years before his actual death) and a friend of mine suggested I write out my feelings about this awful situation in a journal. So I did that. Only later, in a conversation with Frankie, did I realize this topic might make for a good song.

Once I had the idea to write a song, the whole song, music and lyrics, came together for me in less than 24 hours. One night I was talking with Frankie about it. The next night, I was saying, “Dude, I think I’ve got it finished.

No other song I've ever written came together this quickly for me. I’m sure it has to do something with the very emotional (to me) subject matter. The lyrics are obviously very literal. They came from my journal writings. I just converted the words to lyrics over the vocal melody I came up with.

In the end, my friend had been right, Writing this song gave me a bit of catharsis, and helped me get past my father's death.

- Dave

lyrics

I was there
When the doctor told my dad
How do you tell a brilliant man
That he’s going mad

I brought him home that day
Home to tell his wife
Through his tears he kissed us
and he said “I had a good life.”

This fear inside me
I’ve had long long time
Everyone passes on
But this feels like a crime


Anything
Anything
Anything but that
I can deal with anything
Anything but that

Anything
Anything
Anything but that
I can deal with anything
Anything but that



Over time
I watched him
Watched him fade away
Slipping further from himself
Each and every day

Nothing kills a man
Quite like cancer does
But cancer still
Would have left
The man who he was

And even if he had to
had to use a chair
The man I used to know as dad
Would still be sittin’ there

Now his mind is gone,
And yet his body’s here
A shell of the man he once was
A family left in tears

Some things we know
Are far worse than death
All I want for him now
Is a peaceful
Dying breath

Anything
Anything
Anything but that
I can deal with anything
Anything but that

Anything
Anything
Anything but that
I can deal with anything
Anything but that

credits

from Last Chance, released May 9, 2022
Written by Dave Baron

Frankie Rage - lead and backing vocals
Dave Baron - all guitars
Rob Phillips - bass
Jordan Cannata - drums
Paul Benjamin Taylor - backing vocals

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Last Chance image

Last Chance New York, New York

Frankie Rage - Lead Vocals
Dave Baron - All Guitars
Rob Phillips - Bass
Jordan Cannata -Drums

contact / help

Contact Last Chance

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Last Chance, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Seafood Sam joins the show to discuss his newest album, " Standing On Giant Shoulders".
listen now