One Last Time is a love story. Lyrically poetic, yet musically firm and melodic, this is another quintessential Lazy Fifty song.
The song starts with a beautiful and haunting slide guitar introduction which sets the tone for the rest of the song.
About a young soldier, who could be of any generation, going to war, the lyrics begin with “Wipe your tears away, don’t you be afraid” and continue with the feel of a narrative diary, concluding with ‘And as I lay I close my eyes. I see your face smiling one last time”.
Composer Adrian Athy says “One Last Time" is a love story, but also acknowledges the “generations that went away to war thinking it was going to be fun, but as it turned out it wasn’t”.
This is the second song inspired by our war heroes that Adrian has written.
Adrian says he initially wrote ‘Cassino’, a folk song about the kiwis that fought at Cassino in WW2, as he “wanted to start creating our own folk history, to take pride in our NZ history”.
“‘One Last Time’ is a return to that. Whereas ‘Cassino’ was a documentary if you will, ‘One Last Time’ is a novel.”
Watch the official music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZvTBBYR8A.
One Last Time is the third single off Lazy Fifty’s upcoming EP Neighbour of the Beast. The new EP is the second collaboration between Adrian and renowned producer Greg Haver.
Greg says “it was great to re-visit the world of Lazy Fifty again after previously working on their ‘2021: A LAZY ODYSSEY’ album. It’s always encouraging to see a band refresh and continue on their musical journey, a path that Adrian constantly treads in his desire to expand his virtuosity and push the boundaries of the genre.”
Original Kiwi rock band Lazy Fifty has been Adrian’s brain child for 12 years. He is a prolific song writer and composes all of Lazy Fifty’s music.
Neighbour of the Beast is the Adrian Athy show, with a bit of Greg Haver thrown in. Adrian wrote all of the songs, sang lead and backing vocals, played lead, rhythm and bass guitar. In addition to producing the album Greg also performed drums and percussion, bringing a huge sound with the help of his vintage Lydwig kit and Zildjian ‘crash of doom’ cymbal.
Neighbour of the Beast was recorded at Roundhead Studios (owned by Neil Finn).
The name Lazy Fifty comes from the saying of an old friend. When he asked you for a ‘lazy twenty’ (dollars), you knew you’d never see the money again. That was a long time ago and their friend is no longer with us. In memory of him, and allowing for inflation, they are now ‘Lazy Fifty’.