Able Archer
by i concur
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Iterate This
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Sobotka
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Grandeur
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Lucky Jack
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Able Archer
05:02
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Build Around Me
04:41
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Oblige
04:32
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Your Words, Your Dialect
03:56
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Decimal Places
03:37
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Exits are Blockades
04:31
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about
This is our debut album which we spent 2 years writing for. Most of the songs are about things I've read, watched or heard in the British or international press.
Most of the material comes from the excellent BBC Radio 4 as they tend to report the more unusual human stories that don't usually get talked about. 'From Our Own Correspondent' is a great example of this.
A lot of the songs have a similar theme in that there is a problem which can't ever be solved so it's pretty dark stuff.
Hopefully some of it is uplifting too, as it's meant to be, but I hope you enjoy it whether it depresses or uplifts. There isn't a right answer.
Most of the material comes from the excellent BBC Radio 4 as they tend to report the more unusual human stories that don't usually get talked about. 'From Our Own Correspondent' is a great example of this.
A lot of the songs have a similar theme in that there is a problem which can't ever be solved so it's pretty dark stuff.
Hopefully some of it is uplifting too, as it's meant to be, but I hope you enjoy it whether it depresses or uplifts. There isn't a right answer.
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released 23 October 2009
Words: Hann
Music: i concur
Words: Hann
Music: i concur
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- Track Name: Iterate This
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I open my eyes and I can still hear them dancing as if devils were driving their shells
As the morning light turns to evening iterate this four more times
Iterate this four more times
Iterate this till you drop like flies - Track Name: Sobotka
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This is my watch on my patch
And I own every inch of what you're standing on
No I won't give you up anything
Because you have nothing here that I want
Well Sobotka we know what's been going on behind those doors
The way that you move those tins and cans
Sobotka we know what's been going on behind those doors
You move when the port is flowing
You move when the port is flowing
Can we go on?
Well it's not your call
You just leave those decisions to us
You move when the port is flowing
Can we go on?
Well it's not your call
You just leave those decisions to us - Track Name: Grandeur
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Son you're bleeding
You're spilling
You're pissing out your own blood from your throat
Designed and crafted
Enabled and actioned by a hired hand in perfect style
Withdrawal of protection
The methods used to resume and assert our control on this neighbourhood
Where big fish they eat little fish
You forced our hand
You made us play and so you'll learn the hardest way imaginable
Delusion of grandeur
You burned too bright too fast from being unknown
Delusion of grandeur
You have
And now you're lying in the road
Avoid complications
Remove all threats however young or small
A message of intent
Big fish they eat little fish
You forced our hand you made us play and so you'll learn the hardest way imaginable
Delusion of grandeur
You burned too bright too fast from being unknown
Delusion of grandeur
You have
And now you're lying in the road - Track Name: Lucky Jack
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A short term repair keeps us from harm
A best guess
Pot shots
Cannons on the sea bed
She's a weight on our mind
She's a weight on our mind
The stalker's scheming
She's a weight on our mind
She's a weight on our mind
Our lead is slipping
Lucky Jack
You're lucky Jack
Lucky jack
Tailgate at sunrise
Ten miles as the crow flies
She creeps
Gaining
Inches become yards
She's a weight on our mind
She's a weight on our mind
The stalker's creeping
She's a weight on our mind
She's a weight on our mind
Her mission's our demise
Lucky Jack - Track Name: Able Archer
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If they receive our control then they control all of us
If they receive our control then they control all of us
Caught between the jaws of sleeping leviathan that's stirring
Caught between the jaws of a monster
Able archer is rising up from it's knees to feet
If they receive our control
If they receive our control then they control all of us
They control all of us - Track Name: Build Around Me
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You have come and started a war inside me head for my home
All is set so let's play mind games between ourselves
There's no one else for miles around
Set in the heart of the rolling moors plans are set to reshape the land
Have you thought or even considered if i refuse and make my own demands?
There's no negotiation or debate
Just build around me
In the seventh year of construction I see bodies work on the horizon
I've had a taste of what's to come here
But not till a thousand faces are screaming daily past my door
There's no negotiation or debate
Just build around me - Track Name: Oblige
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My love we've been here before
We're going around in wide circles
And while we've been talking
It's unsurprising we've got nowhere
Have patience
No pressure
All in good time
We could stand here forever
If that's what you want I'll oblige
Yes i will
All right we're pressing on old ground
I recognise these tracks as our own
We've been getting nowhere fast for too long
I've forgotten what it's like to progress and push things on
Have patience
No pressure
All in good time
We could stand here forever
If that's what you want I'll oblige
Have patience
All in good time - Track Name: Your Words, Your Dialect
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Out in the borderlands
Out in the wilds you called me in
A mediator recording
Files full of documents to be archived daily
Capturing all the words you say
And so the meeting starts and the words that follow are lost from now to time and ether
The minutes they will read as follows; these words are lost to time and ether
Your words
Your dialect
Sat between fashioned walls on neutral ground
Nava stay optimistic that the two will show
Both are estranged
They speak words we learn and then repeat
The meeting starts and the words that follow are lost from now to time and ether
The minutes they will read as follows; these words are lost to time and ether
Your words
Your dialect explodes in dust
And when you read these words you glean something
It's something - Track Name: Decimal Places
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Why is it always a bigger job than you first thought at the outset?
At the point of conception it looked so easy than now
We made a miscalculation to a couple of decimal places
And now it's the power of ten
All questions no answers
I'm not done
I'm not quite through yet
It's a killer but it's not all over
They've gone over the paper released to the press
You know what I'm going to say
What's coming next
We made a miscalculation to a couple of decimal places
Falsified null and void
Our work here is done
All questions no answers
I'm not done
I'm not quite through yet
It's a killer but it's not all over
It's not all over - Track Name: Exits are Blockades
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When you are the last
The bottom of the food chain
Where's your next meal coming in from?
Let's list the possibilities
It didn't take much thought
Don't put it down to luck
It didn't take much thought
Don't put it down to luck
You've left it there once before and now we're both stuck here
We're standing on the edge of nothing with no backup or support
Waiting for a conclusion
An inevitable final twist to come
Here we are
Bury yourself in parched ground to hibernate
All routes are now closed
All exits are blockades
It didn't take much thought
Don't put it down to luck
It didn't take much thought
Don't put it down to
Here we are
