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Adrift

by Ben & Alfie

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Bee Warren While keeping that Ben & Alfie sound that I totally adore, this album introduces an exciting additional dynamic with ukelele and other instruments. After one quiet late night listen and then a loud one next day, as with No Measure, I am hooked and want to hear it constantly. Too soon to have picked a favourite track yet. Love it all. Well done lads!
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1.
Adrift 04:17
1. Adrift There’s a row boat tied to a riverside tree It’s got no oars just the current beneath It will carry us out and leave no wake And we’ll wander like ghosts on the river The wind will blow and the sun will burn No time nor place but the world will turn It’s one small step and a leap of faith To cut this mooring and drift away And we won’t miss home Because we’ll never look back again
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2. Train of Thought Cling to our tickets find our places Shut our eyes and close our faces The doors slide lock seal no escaping Sit back plug in take to waiting Quiet carriage dry and silent Alone in line together pliant Set us free with no excuses Hold our breath and light the fuses And in traces Unknown places Just one of me In a sea of faces So clearly I can see the oceans Running down the glass Do you know me? Eyes half-closed we drift to dreaming First while waking then in sleeping The metal sings to broken beating Heavy like the concrete breathing Cutting fine the second rule Don't look too long or feel the fool Looking up and meeting gazes Turn away before it blazes
3.
600 Pillows 03:42
3. 600 Pillows Itchy pillows and sweaty sheets The windows locked in a deep dark heat I lie in a waking dream Counting every sheep that I can see The city sirens cry and cry They sing on even in the dead of night I lie with my eyes on fire Tumbleweed across my mind And in my head the strangest things Things I’ve tried to never see Up to the surface Thoughts I hide in the deepest me So don't think for a moment That this is just a passing phase This is my gentle prison Every night is just the same I slept before I knew my name Never played this waiting game Back then and I can't see why The less I rest the more I try To see inside this bed of dreams So cruel but it won’t make me bleed I need to be accepted in Before I live these words I leave The dark outside shines bright in my eyes And my eyes run wild as they move with my mind And my mind can’t stop ‘cause it’s stuck on this ride Circling around behind my eyes Lying in my hotel bed 600 pillows for my head
4.
Words 02:36
4. Words Take them away Take away all the words They mean so many different things To so many different people And nobody understands I get that you think for yourself But it still seems strange to me That you don’t feel quite the same About some things as I do Bearing in mind How much we say With our different faces and voices Can you imagine what it’s like For me reading your letter? How can I understand Why what I said made you cry? And every time I tried to explain It just made it worse What can I do? I try; I try to be a good man And I don’t always fit in But I think that’s OK I’m sure that’s OK I hope; I hope in a few days time And I know it’s so easy to say But I hope the tension between us Will simply fade
5.
Little Flame 04:07
5. Little Flame Oh little flame How do you weave the patterns on my wall? And with your fine bright brush You paint the shadows falling Oh little flame You dance beside me in my dreams And reaching in the dark You kiss my arm and mark me  Laying with the flame that burns me  She sees all I cannot see I need  Brightly in her eyes shine fires  Chasing fleeing shadows Shifting always turning Colours changing red and gold  To find me in the barest state With nothing but the dreams I have of this Oh little flame Are you as certain as you thought you were? And will your sleeping embers Kindle if I hold you? And as you flicker Can I whisper all my doubts to you? And in the quiet night You whisper back and burn them through Oh little flame What are you burning for? Should I feed your fire As I will need you all the more?
6.
6. The Eleventh Hour One little book told us all that we were written And every word we needed was inside it Two great hands told the world that it was made  And put people on the world to tell it A three-faced lord paranoid and bored Flooded all the world just to show them Four wrote the world of all the wonders they had seen Then handed over truth to their editors Five was blood just an old wound now But every war then and since has been forgotten Six days succeeded where eternity had failed The apple on the tree began to ripen The seventh day he turned his back the apple fell And gravity was cursed for its allegiance to the devil On the eighth day he came and some of us were saved Depending on our appetite for shellfish The ninth day clouds told the world that they were angels As they rained upon the people far below them Ten laws told us all that this is how it is And the ten plagues gave us reasons for them The eleventh hour is here when will he appear? What are we missing while we're waiting for his judgement? We live in a globe How can we figure out  The difference between up and down? We live in a globe Only we can sort it out Is he so simple? We live in a globe Why should we reach out? We are indifferent and it’s never our fault We live in a globe There’s only so much room for doubt Are we so simple?
7.
River 03:00
7. River I’m out of my depth here The water is over my head Thundering over the rocks On the riverbed Soon the water will wash me away I will tumble and turn I won’t try to swim As the water spills over the edge I won’t cling on to the rocks As I feel myself fall Then the water will follow me down I will tumble and turn The water will pull me And push me and won’t let me go Captured in water I am unable to breathe Soon the water will wash me away Show me the secrets it keeps And I’m not me I watch as I am swept away As I break I feel nothing at all Numb and cold I no longer need to breathe I slip away Now I’m the river the river is me But now it seems Like it’s all gone too far All the important things now mean nothing to me But still the water will wash me away I will tumble and turn
8.
8. Old Brown Box What will you do when the wind stops howling And the rain stops pouring and the trees stop falling? Will you still need to run when the lightning is done? Will you get no peace at all? Where will you go when the waves stop hitting And the sand stops slipping from under your feet? Where will you hide when the waters subside? Will you get no peace at all? You left the week you turned sixteen A life without limits The whole world beneath your feet A life without limits You say you have to keep the peace And that’s the only way to do it The irony escapes you A life without limits How will you sleep when your spirit runs dry And you can’t tell what’s real from what’s in your mind? You say you’re a fighter till the day you die But you'll get no peace at all What will be left when the road leads home? A purple heart in a uniform What will be lost in the eye of the storm? Will there be no peace at all? You left the week you turned sixteen A life without limits So much you’d never seen A life without limits You say you have to keep the peace And that’s the only way to do it The irony escapes you A life without limits I’ll sit alone in my old brown house And I’ll feel like I’m fighting on the old brown couch And I’ll watch you fall on the old brown box And I’ll get no peace at all
9.
No Return 03:43
9. No Return Composed for the 40th anniversary of the Basel air disaster in which 55 children lost their mothers. It is dedicated to those left behind.
10.
This Plane 04:50
10. This Plane Teach me the patterns that will immortalise my memory in this plane I want to watch the world from up above after I’ve left this plane And I want to watch as the patterns I have left behind unfold But if all that’s left of me is my memory I might not mind if it fades Maybe it’s just a way of giving me more purpose in this plane If I can leave behind a part of me that others can put to my name Is the greatness of a man measured by what he leaves behind in this plane? After we’re gone are we judged retrospectively on our first plane fame? I want to listen to the thoughts of those who remember me Long after I’ve left this plane This plane
11.
5-Sided Dice 04:07
11. 5-Sided Dice Tumbling over the moments that keep us asleep Spreading our dreams to the corners we wish we could keep The window is shallow but it’s never been clean The dirt on the glass helps me see the sun shining again The dust in the air helps me feel that it's warming me These are the best days The best of our lives Clear to me now are the leaves lying frozen in ice Captured and tended cold as a five-sided dice Tested for cracks but the wager is fine And under the ice is a secret that everyone knows A secret that no-one will ever tell anyone These are the best days The best of our lives It's bright and it's cold and it's soft in my castle of string Tangled around me and keeping me safely within These are the best days The best of our lives Perfection in correction never gave truth to our lies

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released June 8, 2014

All tracks created and performed by Ben and Alfie Weedon
Ben: 5-string violin, vocals, shaky egg
Alfie: double bass, vocals, ukulele, balafon, mouth trumpet

Mixed and produced by The Sound Tailor
Mastered at Loud Mastering by Jason Mitchell
Artwork by Ben and pennee

www.benandalfie.com
www.paddywackrecords.com
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