This Is Sandtimer

'Rusting Towers', from our debut EP 'Different Seas', available at: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/album/different-seas

Listen on Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/track/08Wd1CgQ9GZwO1C76PAz6f
And on all other sites via: https://song.link/gb/i/1060567067

Written by Robert Sword
Produced & arranged by Robert Sword & Simon Thomas
Robert Sword: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Ukulele
Simon Thomas: Vocals, Guitar, Bass

Mixed by Giles Thomas
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Cover artwork: Simon Thomas
Album design and additional artwork: William Thomas & Evie Thomas

2015 Folkstock Records
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How can you possibly think that I'm getting out of this?
What can you possibly think am I getting out of this?
Rusting towers stand out on the waves.
I don't know if it's just this air, but I swear: it harms more than it saves.
And I feel I'm letting go of the things I used to know.

How can you possibly know if you're getting anywhere?
What can you plausibly know: is there anything out there?
I wish there was some way that I could know before
but it's just so easy to stay with the cowards that are hanging on the shore.
And I feel I'm letting go of the things I used to know.
I feel I'm letting go of the things I used to know.

I've been throwing stones down the well all my life.
I was waiting for the sound as they hit the sides.
I've been throwing stones down the well all my life.
I was waiting for the sound as they hit the sides.

Rusting towers stand out on the waves.

I would face it every day if I thought that that would lead to much.
I would watch the last light fade if I thought it would stay long enough.
The sea is laughing up at me as I try and keep my eyelids shut,
the ships on the horizon line have all just started squaring up.

Different Seas

Rusting Towers

it's a fixed race, hey, I'll save my breath for the next

Listen on Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/track/6023CVd4DiJf3x29rjmNcW
And all other stores via: https://song.link/gb/i/1176941952

Free download at: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/track/get-on-your-skates

This is 'Get On Your Skates', from our second EP, Mackerel, released December 1st, 2016

Robert Sword - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar, Bass 

Written by Robert Sword 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Mackerel

Get On Your Skates

you may feel caught in the headlights but they're asleep at the wheel

'Time? Why? Explain' by Sandtimer

Find on most streaming platforms and stores at: https://song.link/gb/i/1417337738
and on Bandcamp at: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/album/time-why-explain

Title quoted from This American Life 617: Fermi's Paradox (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/617/transcript) with permission from Matt Salyer.

Robert Sword - Vocals, Ukulele, Bass, Percussion 
Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar 
Rachel Thomas - Vocals

Written by Robert Sword 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering
Cover artwork by Simon Thomas
Cover design by William Thomas

Lyrics:

It's that sudden moment when you're swimming out from the beach.
You feel the current turning- it's pulling you out of reach.
You've been splashing around, looking at all the life,
but now you're flailing, borne out on the tide.

And it's a cold, cold day when it happens
but there is one long life leading on from this moment.

There in the photograph the people are all smiling-
were they really such good times or was it just good timing?
Sometimes I wonder where the photos are of me,
a summer's day in the cool shade of a forest full of conifer trees

And it's a cold, cold day when it happens
but there is one long life leading on from this moment.

Stand tall in the moonlight, stagger through the day.
There's no glamour in summertime- the fields are just too far away.
You may feel like you're on borrowed time but all they do is steal.
You may feel caught in the headlights but they're asleep at the wheel.

And it's a cold, cold day when it happens
but there is one long life leading on from this moment.

Time? Why? Explain

'Clouds' by Sandtimer, out October 26th on Lost Forest Records.

Robert Sword - Vocals, Banjo, Bass, Percussion 
Simon Thomas - Guitar 
Rachel Thomas - Vocals

Written by Robert Sword 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering
Cover artwork by Simon Thomas
Cover design by William Thomas

Lyrics:

The clouds are clearing far away, a blank new page, 
but you cannot seem to find a way to start again. 
The sun was breaking through the clouds yesterday 
but it never seems to dry out all your old mistakes. 

The sleepless nights that people passed for you, 
the pain of being saddled with the weight of truth. 
It’s something I’d take in my stride, walking blue 
with the fear and guilt of starting to resent what I can’t do- 

to lift your head up from that big wooden desk, 
to catch what’s left of summer now, 
to feel that warmth that you’ve not often felt- 
wish there was some way we could help. 

One sky with clouds full of snow and one of rain 
and I think how love and friendship sometimes toll on you the same. 
That burning wish to know and fight their pain and 
shape the clouds into faces that could make them smile again. 

To salvage something good from such a mess, 
to join the dots between the good days, 
to feel that warmth and settle for nothing less- 
wish there was some way we could help 
but the power to change is locked inside yourself.

Clouds - single

Clouds

a day of the most peculiar kind

'209' by Sandtimer

Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar, Bass 
Robert Sword - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Piano 
Rachel Thomas - Vocals 
Sophie Sword - Additional vocals 

Written by Simon Thomas 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering 
Cover artwork by Alex Jackson 
Cover design by William Thomas

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Lyrics

A day of the most peculiar kind, 
I never did mind- I'm too far down the line. 
All my sorrow on the gate 
powering out this bad state. 

Gone back to the county line 
caught in a Peugeot 209 
His motivation is not yet called upon, 
he's a victim of his own crime. 

I came to the turning down the drive 
but never arrived, turned straight around. 
Cold feet, cold on the ground, 
footprints could never be found. 

Gone back to the county line 
caught in a Peugeot 209 
His motivation is not yet called upon, 
he's a victim of his own crime.

Peugeot 209

to lie on the waves and float on the ocean: the simplest of motions

'Dormant' by Sandtimer

Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar, Euphonium 
Robert Sword - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Percussion 
Rachel Thomas - Vocals 

Written by Simon Thomas 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering 
Cover artwork by Simon Thomas 
Cover design by William Thomas

Dormant

even through the dark, dark, dark days

'What's On Your Mind' by Sandtimer

Robert Sword: Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Bass, Percussion 
Simon Thomas: Vocals, Guitar
Rachel Thomas: Vocals

Written by Robert Sword 
Produced & arranged by Robert Sword & Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas & Robert Sword
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering
Cover artwork by Simon Thomas
Cover design by William Thomas
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Lyrics

Even through the dark, dark, dark days
there was never a doubt how this would end,
there was never an 'if', just a 'when'.
But now I've moved on some way
look back over all that time again-
is it a waste that time I've spent?
But it's already over, it's already gone.

Are we just slaves to a system we create?
Are we just slaves to a system?
'I guess I thought that my whole, whole, whole life
Look back and I wonder if it's just me-
am I the one who isn't free?'
But it's already over, it's already gone.

Are we just slaves to a system we create?
Are we just slaves to a system?
I guess we just move back, back, back and forth
between the extremities of thought:
are we the captors or the caught?
But it's already over, it's already gone.
It's already over, it's already gone.

What's On Your Mind

did he sell his soul so he could buy it back, somewhere down the track

'Three Cars' by Sandtimer
Stream/purchase: https://song.link/gb/i/1522202368
Bandcamp: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/album/three-cars-single

Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Cover artwork by Simon Thomas, Photini Knoyle and William Thomas

Three Cars

'Yongo / 四五' by Sandtimer

Stream/purchase: https://song.link/gb/i/1538748025
Bandcamp: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/album/yongo-canadian-boating-song
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandtimermusic

Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Cover artwork by Simon Thomas, Photini Knoyle and William Thomas

Yongo / Canadian Boating Song

Yongo / 四五

have more faith in humanity

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