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ENGINES

by ALBURN

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    We've combined our Engines EP with our Acoustic Engines EP on one CD and encased it in a lovely card sleeve.

    Cover photo by the talented Andrew Kraemer.

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1.
Engines 04:15
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Ditched in a cage, we're hooked up by the fingers Throw you away, corrupted by the pastors You sit and say "I never want to see you" Gas for the fire, is all I'll ever give you She'll cut the wire and no-one ever lives through I'll be the liar 'cause no-one ever wants to The consequences spill out over me I'll cut your throat so you can't speak 'Cause i'm all you need and I'm all you know to be Get some cable, she's going under And I'm not able to hold her any longer Like a tide turns, pretend my heart works And I just can't stay, to love is more than I can take I'll break down, no engine for the machine Assemble a crowd and choke the ones I don't need I'm breaking down, you're hacking deep in my knees I'll operate, till I get what I came for I'll take and take until my stomach's restored I'll take and take until there's nothing anymore The consequences spill out over me I'll cut your throat so you can't speak 'Cause I'm all you need and I'm all you breathe Get some cable, she's going under And I'm not able to hold her any longer Like a tide turns, pretend my heart works And I just can't stay, to love is more than I can take, to love is more than I can take Drain our heads out so the engine runs free Educate us to protect this country We're coming up again You see I know you don't pay your debts so we'll take what's left Get some cable, she's going under And I'm not able to hold her any longer Like a tide turns, pretend my heart works And I just can't stay, to love is more than I can take, to love is more than I can take, to love is more than I can take
2.
Thieves 04:51
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Keep yourself from taking my breath We invent the venomous death It's on you to make my head work Just monsters undercover We grew up in sinking houses Taught to stalk and kill with purpose I don't think my heart's in its place It's too far gone to retrace You'll find me on the hillside You'll find me under replaced ground They took me by the train line They shook me 'til i couldn't make a sound We're just thieves that took the young ones We dug their beds and filled out their stones Open up and let the dark in Limbs safely trussed to begin Love is like a hallow heart shaped vision Cooped inside the car with no permission We're two crazy horses, buck when ridden Nobody threw us a rope to give in You'll find me on the hillside You'll find me under replaced ground They took me by the train line They shook me 'til i couldn't make a sound With all my signal's broken Not a sign that the radar can expose Just a son to a parent Put outside for the wicked to dispose No one knows just what what they're in for The people talk like bust up records Two hawks roam the streets for pleasure They swoop their prey up at every corner You'll find me on the hillside You'll find me under replaced ground They took me by the train line They shook me 'til i couldn't make a sound With all my signal's broken Not a sign that the radar can expose Just a son to a parent Put outside for the wicked to dispose We saw the cost to end a life Disguise the promise of a knife Caught in the net tonight, now we're on the run
3.
Without a Dime 04:45
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In my car, its getting closer The keys won't start, my time is over Over, i'm over now We came too far, collapsed and used up Like gods we are, we sing to keep us From growing and tearing apart Diseased and weak from the poison inside Discreetly dying and losing my mind Hey, you're killing my brain We're running until we hit the walls We're cunning as they come There's no words to make this easy The cries we heard from broken families Are fading out, fading out Hold my tongue from making sense of - The things i've done, consumed the taste of A thousand blood cells in a day, like wild mammals we'll decay But not this way, not this way When we depart does it all start again? Hey, you're killing my brain We're running until we hit the walls We're cunning as they come Hey, you're still in my head We're building a place for you to go And no one has to know Tell all my brothers i'm folding from play All out this time, without a dime I live in a squalor, marooned on this bed We past the post, we finished with no gold to show, no gold to show This time it's taking over, no passage to get older My heart gives in to what is waiting for me to go up Most people perish with nothing to tell Hey, you're killing my brain We're running until we hit the walls We're cunning as they come
4.
Witches 04:34
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Follow roads that wont lead us back home Soil grows us none but a black rose Keep my fear inside my head Hunt whatever haunts my bed Like witches with their craft still intact Some apparition watches my back Exhales a curse for my intake Remains to stalk me when i wake Remembering all my favourite words We have to beg just to be heard I traipse the woods to find my spot The trees assist to dampen a gun shot So dig a hole till you get to stone And occupy the space with my bones Fill it with concrete to harbour a ghost This kind of company hurts the most When you find my cabin don't go inside Surround it with fuel and set it alight What's left of my spirit is claimed by air Wherever it ends you cannot prepare Deliver the news in children's tales Tell them the devil does not prevail List the ways to defend a home from dark Gather what's still good before it all departs So God has hastily fled from his problems Is he expected to keep an eye on everyone? His chair left vacant and open for replacement His beastly brother's the only one who'll take it Our proposition's a reckless plan that we'll deploy A sinless home with a plead for grace is our decoy Imagine it like a blackening of what was bright It holds you under with no intent to let you rise
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Engines (Acoustic) 04:20
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Ditched in a cage, we're hooked up by the fingers Throw you away, corrupted by the pastors You sit and say "I never want to see you" Gas for the fire, is all I'll ever give you She'll cut the wire and no-one ever lives through I'll be the liar 'cause no-one ever wants to The consequences spill out over me I'll cut your throat so you can't speak 'Cause i'm all you need and I'm all you know to be Get some cable, she's going under And I'm not able to hold her any longer Like a tide turns, pretend my heart works And I just can't stay, to love is more than I can take I'll break down, no engine for the machine Assemble a crowd and choke the ones I don't need I'm breaking down, you're hacking deep in my knees I'll operate, till I get what I came for I'll take and take until my stomach's restored I'll take and take until there's nothing anymore The consequences spill out over me I'll cut your throat so you can't speak 'Cause I'm all you need and I'm all you breathe Get some cable, she's going under And I'm not able to hold her any longer Like a tide turns, pretend my heart works And I just can't stay, to love is more than I can take, to love is more than I can take Drain our heads out so the engine runs free Educate us to protect this country We're coming up again You see I know you don't pay your debts so we'll take what's left Get some cable, she's going under And I'm not able to hold her any longer Like a tide turns, pretend my heart works And I just can't stay, to love is more than I can take, to love is more than I can take, to love is more than I can take
6.
Thieves (Acoustic) 03:54
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Keep yourself from taking my breath We invent the venomous death It's on you to make my head work Just monsters undercover We grew up in sinking houses Taught to stalk and kill with purpose I don't think my heart's in its place It's too far gone to retrace You'll find me on the hillside You'll find me under replaced ground They took me by the train line They shook me 'til i couldn't make a sound We're just thieves that took the young ones We dug their beds and filled out their stones Open up and let the dark in Limbs safely trussed to begin Love is like a hallow heart shaped vision Cooped inside the car with no permission We're two crazy horses, buck when ridden Nobody threw us a rope to give in You'll find me on the hillside You'll find me under replaced ground They took me by the train line They shook me 'til i couldn't make a sound With all my signal's broken Not a sign that the radar can expose Just a son to a parent Put outside for the wicked to dispose No one knows just what what they're in for The people talk like bust up records Two hawks roam the streets for pleasure They swoop their prey up at every corner You'll find me on the hillside You'll find me under replaced ground They took me by the train line They shook me 'til i couldn't make a sound With all my signal's broken Not a sign that the radar can expose Just a son to a parent Put outside for the wicked to dispose We saw the cost to end a life Disguise the promise of a knife Caught in the net tonight, now we're on the run
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Without a Dime (Acoustic) 03:50
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In my car, its getting closer The keys won't start, my time is over Over, i'm over now We came too far, collapsed and used up Like gods we are, we sing to keep us From growing and tearing apart Diseased and weak from the poison inside Discreetly dying and losing my mind Hey, you're killing my brain We're running until we hit the walls We're cunning as they come There's no words to make this easy The cries we heard from broken families Are fading out, fading out Hold my tongue from making sense of - The things i've done, consumed the taste of A thousand blood cells in a day, like wild mammals we'll decay But not this way, not this way When we depart does it all start again? Hey, you're killing my brain We're running until we hit the walls We're cunning as they come Hey, you're still in my head We're building a place for you to go And no one has to know Tell all my brothers i'm folding from play All out this time, without a dime I live in a squalor, marooned on this bed We past the post, we finished with no gold to show, no gold to show This time it's taking over, no passage to get older My heart gives in to what is waiting for me to go up Most people perish with nothing to tell Hey, you're killing my brain We're running until we hit the walls We're cunning as they come

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Our debut EP combined with an Acoustic EP we recorded a few months later, live in our home studio.

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released April 3, 2013

All songs written and performed by Pete Duthie and Gee MacPhee.

Drums performed by Sean Campbell.

Engines EP recorded mixed and mastered by Tom Mitchell at Clearwater Studios, Perth.

Acoustic EP recorded live in Pete's flat.

Cover photo by Andrew Kraemer.

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