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No Measure

by Ben & Alfie

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Bee Warren
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Bee Warren Favourite tracks are so hard to choose because each appeals for a different reason. 'Snowfall' maybe reaches deepest but lyricwise 'For Good' hits the sad spot most. Then I think it's the fiddle piece in 'Velvet Tongued Man' that's has a particularly elating quality. All fab really. :) Favorite track: Snowfall.
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Fredrick Scott This album is filled with such beautiful songs. Favorite track: After The Noise.
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1.
People say I’m doing fine Indoor job and drinking wine But is this all there is to life Paying bills and killing time? I’m written down on paper Black and white figures on a sheet Trapped in columns on the pages These broken wings can’t stretch to beat I’m walking the thin grey line But this narrow road won’t talk to me I’m walking the thin grey line But this beaten path won’t speak to me In the mirror looking good Doing what they said I should In the mirror looking fine I walk along this thin grey line Do I exist to spend my time Walking along this thin grey line? The world has gone completely mad “Pop a pill don’t feel so bad” I’m passing people standing in their lines Broken wings and feet of lead Would they even notice If I chose to walk away instead? Fallen angel
2.
For Good 03:46
I can’t see what you see You’re changing Is it for good? Is it too late to find you? You’re lost and I feel I should You’re standing right by me But you are somewhere else Your eyes see right through me I wonder where you are When did you go? When did you leave this race behind? When did you stop running? You were so far ahead of the line You were flying so much higher Than we ever could We never saw you fall But you still hit the ground You’ve left the tap running The fire has gone out How will you find your way home Now that you’ve covered your tracks? Each day you found yourself Having to race another day Maybe you just got tired Maybe you had to slow down
3.
Your eyes no longer see The things you used to believe in Your songs no longer seem To have meaning You sit facing the wall I watched it all happen You sing facing the wall The velvet tongued man Wove you into his design He pulled on your threads And he seemed so benign A permanent smile Not one word is unkind But he’s carefully severed Your heart from your mind The velvet tongued man Knows exactly how to use In polite English turns How could you refuse? The dance had begun I could not accuse So I watched as you willingly Broke in two
4.
Behind Glass 06:08
I watch from behind glass as you are I watch from behind glass as you were I watch from behind glass as you keep turning And in the evening when we’re still dancing I step the same steps but you step away I watch and I wait Just to see you move just like me I watch from behind glass as you smile I watch from behind glass as you sigh I watch from behind glass as you keep searching And in the evening when we’re still talking All through the night till the morning comes I watch and I wait Just to see you think just like me Are you really there at all? Are you really ever there? Are we really there at all? Are we really ever there? I watch from behind glass as you rise I watch from behind glass as you fall I watch from behind glass as you come running And in the morning when we’re still sleeping The sun stretches fingers under our door I watch and I wait Just to see you breathe just like me I watch from behind glass as it breaks
5.
27 Years 06:32
The colour today is grey I see only black and white Every day’s the same Great tall trees that have no leaves Silhouettes against a pale sky That sheds no light The colour today is grey I can see a bleak horizon Will it ever change? Such an unforgiving landscape Where silence paints an image Of on ever-ringing bell Again and again I don’t even know what happened Can I still be blamed? Please God let a storm come down At least something would tell me Time was passing The colour today is grey Darkness keeps my innocence And I can only age If the locks were drawn Release would only leave me as a child Uncared for Is my life a game? Can I not compose my part? No choice is mine to make Colour me in shadows For I no longer see the rainbow And angels cannot reach me
6.
The Man 04:05
My name is fox I’m a magpie I’ll never do anything I say Without a half-truth Or a twist along the way I’m a peacock And I’ll do what I want to today Show off my plumage To all the birds along the way My name is crow I’m a jackal Contracts are not for me “Put it in writing” Just doesn’t make any sense to me I’m a magician Always got something up my sleeve And just that last trick Should give me all the help I need My name is cat I’m a deceiver But I don’t resort to lies Straightforward questions Do not require a straight reply I’m a hyena And I ensure I get my way So you better give me Just what I ask for straight away
7.
Snowfall 05:25
I saw snow fall the first time Seemed like it would fall forever I could not take my eyes away The softest view I’ve ever seen She looked at me Like a hare looks at the moon Our gaze held slightly too long I heard every flake that fell They whispered As they touched the ground I wish I’d never turned away The softest view I’ve ever seen But you’ll forget me when you’re gone And I’ll forgive you when I see you Am I stuck inside this song? Am I still in love? I wish I could have made you stay But what would I have made?
8.
Show this world a picture of a dream And maybe it will find you an echo Where has all my time gone? The hours of my life gone? My time before has flown away Stripped away from day to day What is this fixation with the time? Used to pass so comfortably Never used to bother me Where it had gone What is this obsession With the space I’m in? I used to sit so comfortably Now walls are closing in on me Has it begun? I’m out of words I have no more to say My lips keep moving anyway After the noise Silence fell Like the last brown leaf
9.
No Measure 05:31
This is my book It is written In the hands of my guilts and my fears It records every failure And describes my jealousy Its only commandment That I live each one once again And the pages will tear And the spine will be broken And the words will spill out And the sentences spoken And the meaning all lost And my daemons awoken Do you want to know? Do you want to walk the free way? Do you want to breathe the cold air? Do you want to touch the burning? Do you want to feel the slide? It’s no measure of our sanity Held against the metre of a mad mad world It’s a measure of our vanity We’re looking in the mirror at a sad sad world Do we feel that there’s a cavity? Something that we’re missing in our own small worlds Was there something in our history That we’ve abandoned for our own small world? I have every member of the human race To judge myself for and against My book keeps the records straight And I must tend it as a garden of black and white
10.
Endless flow of water Slipping through the spray Glistens in the moon bright Steals from wave to wave Silent from the surface Catching in the space A breath before returning To the graceful silky sway Gliding ‘cross a mirror Of our ever-twisting fate Over and over Above and below Will you pity us When we’re here alone? Over and over Around and around Will you pity us When we’ve run aground? Careless and indifferent We fail to watch the tide Creeping up our bow of luxury Inside we sit without a word For fear Of what we might hear ourselves say And then we’d have to change Cover the picture Turn away your gaze

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Krishnamurti

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released February 15, 2013

We would like to thank: Lisa Tregale, Thomas Brooman, Vaughan Pierce and James Aldridge for their patient feedback on this project; Rob Harbron for his advice on the mix; Dave Howard for his enthusiasm and artistic support; Bob Foster for the beautiful new five-string, which appears on the cover and briefly in “The Thin Grey Line”

All music and lyrics: Ben and Alfie Weedon
Production: Ben Weedon
Mastering: Jason Mitchell, LOUD Mastering
Photography: Fiona Holmes and Ben Weedon
Artwork: Dave Howard and Ben Weedon
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