MATT PLESS - Nero | A Fistful Of Vinyl
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Matt Pless performing "Nero" from his album Nero on A Fistful of Vinyl on KXLU 88.9 FM Los Angeles and www.kxlu.com.
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Nero - a bit about this song.. I had the vision of the Fiddle / Rome burning metaphor in my head for a year or two before I finally felt the spark to sit down and write a full song using that phrase as the chorus. The melody and some of the lyrics came to me in a dream one night about 2 years ago, I woke up and spent the next day writing the song, it took several hours but when it was finished I felt like I had discovered something special. What baffles me is how much more the lyrics resonate today given the current climate in the world. I've included the lyrics and guitar chords below because i receive a good deal of requests from fans askin how to play this song. I hope y'all enjoy it and stay safe ,healthy and happy while doing so.
-Matt
Verse
In the dawn of desperation when the peasants are beheading every emperor with a golden crown
First, theyâll stand with one another then theyâll turn against each other under thunder on the battleground.
Pre chorus
With their torches, tar, and feathers off to round up all the witches on a rail to run âem out of town.
In a kingdom thatâs collapsing Iâm relaxing on the ashes playing fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
Verse
You can dance around the fire with the hand that holds the power
or go cower with the gagged and bound.
While the vultures count the profits and the hawks are launching rockets in a garden growing mushroom clouds.
Pre chorus
You can storm the ivory tower but the knight in shining armorâs days are numbered on the body count.
So, Iâm laughing up in heaven in the arms of Armageddon playing fiddle watching Rome burn down.
Chorus
You can find me playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down, playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
You can find me playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down, playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
Where the tricksters and the grifters and the rich carnival barkers sell their sulphur to a spellbound crowd.
Buying tickets to the promise of a better world a-coming left with nothing when their hope runs out.
Thereâs a lifeboat overflowing on a rising violent ocean in the darkness where the sailors drown.
But Iâm smiling on an island by the tidal wave horizon playing fiddle watching Rome burn down.
If youâre screaming in defiance are you David or Goliath when the riot rages all around.
Call it vengeance, call it justice, call it progress, call it selfish either way Iâm gonna have my doubts.
Maybe Iâm just causing problems thinking I know how to solve them so for once Iâm gonna shut my mouth.
Waiting silent in the shadows like a devil in the crossroads playinâ fiddle watching Rome burn down.
You can find me playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down, playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
You can find me playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down, playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
While the charlatans are shouting propaganda on the mountain truth is spoken to an empty house.
If you ask for my opinion are you trying to make a difference or find something to complain about.
When indulgence and consumption leave a landscape of destruction where itâs far too late to turn back now.
Iâll be moving on my own way down the existential highway playinâ fiddle watching Rome burn down.
You can find me playin fiddle watchin Rome burn down, playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
You can find me playin fiddle watchin Rome burn down, playinâ fiddle watchinâ Rome burn down.
Chords
Chords! Intro Eb Ab Eb Bb Eb Ab Bb
Verse
Eb Ab Bb Eb
Pre chorus
Cm Bb Eb Ab Eb Bb Ab Bb Eb
Chorus
Cm Ab Eb Ab Bb Eb
Cm Ab Eb F7 Bb Eb
sweet, thanks!!!!! your performances are the best btw
Matt Pless I love this! Another songwriting masterpiece. Thanks for the words/chords... Iâll probably give this a go tonight... trying to keep busy during quarantine, but too distracted to write myself.
Fuck yeah man.
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thank you bro
So my mom absolutely loves Matt Pless. His music resonates in her soul. She wants to adopt him (I've always wanted an older brother!) and last time he came through LA, he stayed with my folks for most of a week. So of course I invited my mom and dad to the session! That's my mom's voice at 4:47 expressing disappointment in the course language on Matt's shirt, to which he responds "Oh shit!"
Freaking adorable.
I "discovered" this guy on Spotify while listening to Frank Turner Radio. His "Frayed Wind Blows" song came on and I was instantly hooked. Great Dylan references in that song/video and his lyrics are timeless; a unifying voice in the howl of chaos.
I've spent countless days listening to music like this on repeat. When people in meatspace ask me what I've been doing I say I've been listening to audiobooks
Matt Pless is a true poet of his age always.
Matt is one of the best song writers of our time and its about time everyone figures that out.
Hope to see ya live at the Moonrunners make up show when the world gets a bit less crazy, homie!
His style reminds me of a punk Bob Dylan and I mean that with the utmost respect. When they write a song, it's like they write a whole long emotional essay wrapped up into a couple minutes. Their guitar/harmonica skills are impressive enough but lyrically, it's next level. Matt's voice is more appealing though, IDK how tf he's not on everyone's radar. It genuinely makes me mad that pop stars can be famous and have less verses on their entire album than people like matt has in one song
Matt's live performances on this channel are among the best live performances I've ever seen. That Frayed Wind performance is beyond beautiful. I'd like to say that I could watch that video without getting at least a little teary-eyed, but so far, I haven't been able to control my tear sockets. And I've watched that damn thing at least fifty times. It reminds of a scene in Scorsese's No Direction Home pre-bike wreck Dylan document when Ginsburg is talking about seeing Bob play live for the first time and he says, in effect, that the air that Bob was breathing in and manipulating to sing the words of the song had become a part of Bob Dylan, and Dylan himself had become, in that moment, the physical manifestation of the song. He knew his song well before he started singing because his songs were pure expressions of himself, and he cant not know himself...Something like that anyway. And that's kind of how I feel watching that performance.
Finally a good video in which I can see his fretting hand on this one. I've been trying to figure out those little folky flourishes for the last half year. Grazie, you magnificent bastards.
This term gets thrown around ironically a decent amount but Matt Pless is genuinely one of the best songwriters of our generation. Unequivocally.
I really love this song
Matt is such an incredible artist, just recently found his tunes and Iâm hooked. Keep up the great work brother hope to see you live someday!
This should have 330m+ views, considering we are living through the fall of the US empire...
HE SAID " I GOT IT OFF HIS CORPSE" I fucking love you Matt lmao
I know this dude. Heâs a cool guy and amazing songwriter.
How have I not heard of this guy yet? Thank you for having him on so I could discover him!
HELL YEAH!!! Love this guy
Dicovered him this past Friday watching him live. Bought his cd and now can't stop looking his stuff up. Dude will be a legend. Tell your friends about him.
My favorite post in a while. Soon as I saw this promo on your guys's Instagram a few days ago, i just loved something about it and decided to check this guy out. He's quickly becoming a new favorite of mine. Awesome job everyone!
I'm so glad you did! Matt is one of a kind. Mostly I'm in it so when he's huge in 5 years I can be like "Yeah I'm old-school Matt Pless, you band-wagoning posers!" so there's that benefit hahaha
"I got it off his corpse" - that was hilarious! Genius!
Nice!
Exactly what I needed today! Absolutely love Matt, he has a way with words like no other â€
I love this song so much! Youâre a poet.
Bless matt pless
#BlessThisPless
I clicked the thumbnail bc you looked like Jim morrison...
Glad i did. I loved this. Great channel. On it now, honey!
Yessss you're among friends
A Fistful Of Vinyl right? Clearly. #ImwithYou
I love this song and many Matt Pless songs. Stuff like this lyrically and style-wise remind me of Phil Ochs
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Every time I start to panic about our collective futures, this song brings me a kind of peace that I can't quite explain.
Listening to this during riots across America this week
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Powerful lyrics as always. Go Matt!
P.S. Matt was correct about the t-shirt!
Very nice
Got love the homie Matt Pless heâs fuckin great
My son loves dancing around to this one. He calls it âthat world burn down songâ đ
You're so talented, Matt. Keep it up, you bad ass fucking rock star. đ€
playing fiddle all night
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We all did, bud
Love this song man
Matt Pless gets politics more than most PhD's.
fuuuuuuck yeaaaah
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So freaking good!!
How do you do the percussion? I canât figure it out for the life of me
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AN OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT FROM ADULT FILM STAR @KARMA_RX!
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Here to creep Matt out a bit, so Iâll use two known triggers: âPitchfork reviewâ & âSounds like a Pat The Bunny Lyric, but okayâ đ
Matt kinda looks like Pat Contri aka Pat the NES Punk in this vid. I like both them dudes quite a bit so im cool with that.