Astrikos Katoikos - "The Last Record"

The tunnels swallowed every city.
Rusted rails forgot their names.
No voices crossed the broken stations,
Only water, dust and flames.

One survivor climbed the platform,
Searching for a spark below.
Deep inside an abandoned carriage,
Something waited in the glow.

One old battery still breathing.
One dim lamp refused to fade.
Stacks of records stood in silence,
Patient through the years they stayed.

Chuck Berry broke the silence first.
Bo Diddley answered with his beat.
Little Richard set the carriage shaking.
Elvis rose with steady feet.

Outside slept a lifeless planet.
Steel and concrete turned to stone.
Inside spun a black disc slowly.
The train was not alone.

No presidents.
No prophets.
No flags remained to wave.
Only Rock 'n' Roll Still roaring
Through mankind's forgotten grave.

No empires.
No armies.
No monuments to recall.
Only Rock 'n' Roll.
It outlived them all.

Buildings crumbled into gravel.
Forests claimed the streets once more.
Oceans crossed forgotten highways.
Cities vanished from the shore.

Every anthem lost its meaning.
Every scripture lost its throne.
Every language turned to fossils.
Every kingdom turned to bone.

Dust lay thick upon the turntable.
Yet the stylus found its line.
Every scratch became a heartbeat.
Every crack preserved its time.

Buddy Holly joined the chorus.
Jerry Lee set fire again.
The dead returned without their bodies.
Only music filled the train.

No one left to buy a ticket.
Dark platforms held their breath.
Ancient echoes rode the tunnels,
Where even death had lost its claim.

The earth became a silent archive.
Cold beneath an empty sky.
Yet inside that lonely carriage,
Rock refused to die.

The final train
Never carried
Kings or crowns.
No fortunes.
No banners.
No saints renowned.
It carried voices
Pressed in vinyl.
Forty-five and thirty-three.
When every nation disappeared...
Rock 'n' Roll
Remembered humanity.
And when the final battery
Breathed its final spark...
The world went dark.
The music didn't.


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