Tundra
by Before Machines
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Little Lea
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Ornaments
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Armistice
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We Were Stayed
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Trails
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Stalagmites
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Incidents Have Causes
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Trembleur
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Runaway
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Even Swords
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credits
released 28 January 2013
All songs written and performed by Before Machines.
Guest performances from Ian Jordan, Walter D'Goon, Linda Black and Mark McAllister.
Recorded by Walter D'Goon at Grahamhouse Recording Studio and Chris McCorry at Start Together Studios.
Mixed and mastered by Rocky O'Reilly at Start Together Studios.
All songs written and performed by Before Machines.
Guest performances from Ian Jordan, Walter D'Goon, Linda Black and Mark McAllister.
Recorded by Walter D'Goon at Grahamhouse Recording Studio and Chris McCorry at Start Together Studios.
Mixed and mastered by Rocky O'Reilly at Start Together Studios.
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Belfast-based alternative rock
"Urgent and devastating...bold, thrilling and full of awing
potential." - AU Magazine
"Tightly focussed, with intricate guitar lines intertwining over a bed of bass and drums...Before Machines are a band with a potentially glittering future ahead of them" - BBC ATL
"Gritty yet melodic sonic assaults" - Hot Press Magazine
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discography
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Jan 2013 -
Nov 2012 -
Jul 2012 -
Nov 2011 -
May 2010
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- Track Name: Little Lea
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Can you wait, can you wait a while longer
Can you wait, can you wait, I'm sending it over
I'm making, I'm making, I'm making concessions, when I should
be making, be making, be making confession
Are you in the distant corner, or close within reach
To the core I know but I sill I struggle to conceive
Eyelashes frame a time before I heard the sweetest sound
Crumbling off and tumbling, tumbling down
I closed my eyes, but for a stark lack and misspending of time
To hand it over, but I can only look, only look to the corner
Distant corner
Close within reach
To the core I know
Still I struggle to conceive
A stark lack
Of time and reason
I struggle and falter
You're real you're real - Track Name: Ornaments
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I let you down, let you down again, I need to get as far as I can go
I need a ride, will it be on time? I need to get gone, for sure
I held you close, held you oh so close, as close as possible
Better a man, no
I want to let go
Better a Man, no
Should I hold on?
Better a man, no
When I forget what I'm feeling
Better a man no
How should i prove that I am a fool I should let go
I need to pray more, to read the truth, I need to hold on
I'll set a time, then I'll get in the way
I'll set a friend, then I'll get in the way
I'll set a place, a sacred place
I'll set a time
Should I let go when there's something wrong?
I need to hold on
Should I let go if there's something wrong?
I need to stop doing wrong and hold on
Better a man, no
I want to let go
Better a Man, no
Should I hold on?
Better a man, no
When I forget what I'm feeling
Better a man
When I forget what I'm feeling
Better a man - Track Name: Armistice
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What is won? heal up this cataract, my sights impaired
When it's done, teach me how to act, I will go anywhere
Anchored down, in the face, of prevailing helpful winds
What's this great gale for, if we are anchored down, we go nowhere
To arms To arms
To arms to arms to armistice
Not Defeat but in Surrender, we are welcomed, we are honoured
Anchored down
Connected link in link
Chain is bound
But inherently weak
Links unwinding
We'll find it together, together we'll sever
Chain is bound
Link in link
Comprised of a series of defeats
With aid we'll find it, together we'll sever, we'll rise together - Track Name: We Were Stayed
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At once bemused
Now uncovered
I rectified
The inert
Grip has gone
Overwhelmed with what we understood
You were stayed but not against your will
You were stayed and we were not too far away
And we held the signs above our head
And we stayed
You were stayed and invited me in
And I came and we spent all of the day
We were stayed, but against our will
We were stayed
Ascertain
I made this awry
Apprehensive
But I could not
Make my way if this was the last time
We were stayed but not against our wills
We were stayed and we were not to far away
And we held the signs above our heads
And we stayed
Kernels instilled, intact
Safely they're held near by
We are not scared to clasp
Make a pact for a pair
We're charmed, we can abide
Let us not wait, or with to much haste
We're charmed, we can abide
Let us not wait, or with to much haste
Let us not race, or hinder progress
We were stayed but not against our wills
We were stayed and we were not to far away
And we held the signs above our heads
And we stayed - Track Name: Trails
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You know this is going so well, you know this deep inside
Know that when you bore out a well, we pray all is well deep down
Are you drawing from the well? the well that won't run dry
Stagnant, a hazard, fell and fleeting
or a spring of joy that is pure and pleasing
Aligned you'll find you're on a line you'll find your on a line too
Laid out is a choice of wells, all wells dissimilar
Give me the wisdom how to tell which well has a source worth drawing from
Firmly Founded, Giving, Vast, Forgiving
Aligned you'll find, you're on a line, you'll find, your on a line too
You're on a line, you'll find you are aligned - Track Name: Stalagmites
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The date postponed as if what you own you hold to
But you've got a light at your side
It never fails when you hold to
At least in part you've got a light
The day proposed because what we owe we hold to
But you've got a light at your side
At least in part
We've got a light
At our side
Got a light
An attitude, lets not put it together in our own time
Please pull me through, let's not put it together in our own time
Please pull me through, let's not put it together in our own time
Let's just put it together
Let's not put it together in our own time
Let's put it together when it's right - Track Name: Trembleur
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The present is our domain,
These anticipation's will blur our vision.
There is so much to the approximate,
How will we treat it?
The future events may be,
Accidental but with cause and reason.
The future is our domain,
How will we treat it?
Incidents have causes
A root of destruction,
The neglect of problems.
Evidence of council,
In the consolations.
Incidents have causes
Woo - Track Name: There Was A Grand Alliance
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They were standing in the distance by, the
Fires ignite this town, burn this city down
On the night of blaze, silhouette's were made, by
Young men at arms, their weakened hearts did...
Fade so low my heart sank so hard
Of these men at arms, found by heart shaped casts
New hearts made of iron will way us down and rust
Colourful, do you remember the day?
When we learned to pray in everything
Don't doubt these boarders, there not locked
Great things will come
Don't guess these boundaries, you'll restrict
What can be done
How far do you reach?
The constellations
How far do you reach? - Track Name: Runaway
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I have petitioned for more time and so flippantly make my case that I'm dependable
So terrified that I have to vouch for it
I have endeavoured so tirelessly
It is tomorrow the day that I'm dependable
To increase my grace, but that's not what's promised
I don't want to run away, I don't want to run away
But to fight, fight, fight
I have exemption and yet I'll anxiously still make my claim that I'm dependable
So terrified that I have to vouch for it
I have endeavoured so wearily
It is tomorrow the day that I'm dependable
To increase my grace, but that's not what's promised
I don't want to run away, I don't want to run away
But to fight, fight, fight
I have petitioned for more time and so flippantly make my case that I'm dependable
So terrified that I have to vouch for it
I have attempted to reconcile a part of me
I've only lost when I think that I'm dependable
I can hand it over to a greater strength to my relief
I don't want to run away, I don't want to run away
But to fight, fight, fight - Track Name: Even Swords
- Don't question yourself in all you've done
