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🎵 The Day the Thunder Fell
by 4Me2BeFree

🔻 Song Insight
This song is a quiet collapse—one that doesn’t scream, but sinks. The Day the Thunder Fell captures the stillness after a devastating moment, when life shifts and you’re left holding something that was never given the chance to be. It’s about loss at its most personal level, wrapped in echo, memory, and unspoken grief.

🔻 Lyrics
[Intro]
rain
The thunder rolled
It was after the show
No lights came down
Just another soul

[Verse 1]
Hope lingered
And then we were told
The ending held back
A life we couldn't grow

Trouble broke this silent ground
Union cracked with iron sound
Loops no longer held
Just truths were found
With stillness
An echo rang
We bowed out
Of what we couldn’t bring

[Pre-Chorus]
We stared at the screen
It no longer moved
Where our future lived
Now only stillness proved

[Chorus]
Leaving us
Together, alone
Each with a knowing
Of what was gone
Eyes streamed pain
You could see
This ending
Built inside our chests

[Verse 2]
Pacing floors
Worn and torn at the seams
Under falling skies
I fought through guilt—not dreams
Slammed doors
Fired screams
Desperate sounds
From collapsing beams

[Pre-Chorus]
Static love, resting underground
Confusion rising
From the walls all around

[Chorus]
Leaving us
Together, alone
Each with a knowing
Of what was gone
Eyes streamed pain
You could see
This ending
Built inside our chests

[Bridge]
Walking away with one less
A hollowness we can’t suppress
This loss became our home
We each carried the stone

Putting weight on backs that break
A heart that held all we could take
His life
Her earth
Now both are gone
A mother, father
Brother, son
This place inside
Now undone

[Verse 3]
A darkness falls in every drop
Tears from a broken lott
Black and shamed
Alone, we sleep
Mouthing a name
That didn’t get to be

[Pre-Chorus]
Cold walls, falling ceilings
In this bed we try
To forgive what peace once was
And say goodbye

[Chorus – Final Refrain]
Leaving us
Together, alone
With memories carved
Into bone
What never lived
Still made its mark
A silent child
In a world gone dark

[Outro]
rain
As we drift
To a place
That never will exist

🔻 Personal Reflection
There’s not much I want to say beyond what the song already does. This was a day that never left me. A choice. A hope. A silence. And a goodbye that didn’t come with words. I don’t share this to be understood—I share it because it’s mine. And maybe it belongs to someone else out there too. If you’ve ever carried grief that had no beginning or end, you’ll know what I mean.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
This track represents what 4Me2BeFree is about—telling stories that are too heavy for everyday words. The project exists to turn emotional truth into music that feels lived-in, not polished. This isn’t pop for playlists. This is sound for the soul, shaped by real pain, real love, and real memory.

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The Day the Thunder Fell - Fractures: Reimagined by 4ME2BEFREE

Track taken off debut album 'Set Back the Years'.

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When the days are a haze in your memory
While I’ve counted the hours, you’ve been out apparently
And I’ve been feeling uneasy, queasy lately
But I know that the days were just a phase for you baby
But I was thinking...

(I think I've started coming around)
I was sure I could be on to something
(I can see the sky through the cloud)
Cause I'm tired of fighting tooth and nail for nothing
(Baby we can figure this out)
Well I’ve had enough maybe love’s just overrated
But I still crave it

When the years feel like spears through your heartache
Then the loneliness came, took it’s aim like a grenade
And you’ve been looking so lonely, if only we’d repave
You can’t believe after years everything appears too little, too late
But I was thinking...

(I think I've started coming around)
I was sure I could be on to something
(I can see the sky through the cloud)
Cause I'm tired of fighting tooth and nail for nothing
(Baby we can figure this out)
Well I’ve had enough maybe your just overrated
But I keep caving...

Oh, let’s go
I know it burns to your bones
But you had my soul

Overrated

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

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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

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

_____________________________
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

Livin' It Up

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
_____________________________
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

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

Baby Books

In The Flow | OUT NOW

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Written by Ciaran McMeeken
Produced by Nick Poortman & Ciaran McMeeken in Malibu, California.
Additional Production by Aaron Prictor in Auckland, New Zealand.

Engineered & Mixed by Nick Poortman in Malibu, California.
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville, US.

Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano, Bass & Percussion by Ciaran McMeeken.
Drum Programming by Nick Poortman
Electric Guitars &  Drum Programming by Aaron Prictor.

In The Flow

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

LYRICS:
Hello my unbelievable sense to
Call when nobody gets who you are
Say hello to all the people surrounding
Who’d call to see if your landing came in smooth

With little waves of doubt
To pad the evenings out

To throw to
To gently patter your bones you
You came when nobody told you
Though we’ll never give up our names 
We’ll pace this through

With some dancing
A strangely patient answer
For Sunday evenings after

With little waves of doubt
To cast the evenings out

It’s turning it’s turning it’s turning me now
Like a big moon
Its turning it’s turning it’s turning me now

When a big moons coming out someones gonna figure you out
and I hear you brother just don’t let the dream die now
When a big moons coming out someones gonna figure you out
and I hear you brother just don’t let the dream die now

Oh the better words are left unsaid
Well babe I hear them now
and babe they’re getting loud
These little waves of doubt
To pad the evenings out

Big Moon

Listen to 'Days, Nights' from Eliza Edens's upcoming album Time Away From Time, to be released April 17, 2020

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📝 Lyrics:

The mornings are dim
The evenings are long
Since you’ve been around
Every flower I once knew has been
Hollowed through and hung out on the line
And I sit and I think
And I hope and I wait
And I watch you take over while
The air disappears
And the wind’s a persistent beast
That rattles every corner of the mind

And when it’s time I’ll know
To stay or follow
This winter could be
Spring tomorrow

The days have been grey
The nights have been cold
Since you’ve been away
Every memory and photograph
Muddied up the river far behind
And I laugh and I cry
And I cry and I laugh
And I wash away tears
And I look at the clouds
And the trees sweetly whisper
That somewhere in the moment you’re around

And when it’s time I’ll know
To take or borrow
The love you left me
For tomorrow
Or give it away and
Move through the sorrow

And when it’s time I’ll know
To take or borrow
The love you left me
For tomorrow
Or give it away and
Move through the sorrow

Days, Nights

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Eliza Edens - Days, Nights (with lyrics)

Listen to Abel Hawnt's new single 'Lake Louise', released February 29, 2020

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🎧 'Lake Louise', released February 29, 2020
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📝 Lyrics:

So many roads to follow
So many rivers to seek
So many mountains and bays 
All them stars on display
Come runaway with me 

So many trails to step upon 
So many peaks to reach 
So many colours and coves
Tiny islands to roam
Come runaway with me 

Cause i've been thinking 
This town ain't what it used to be 
And i've been dreaming 
Of campfires under alpine tress
And sunsets over lake louise 
Come runaway with me 

Too much time stuck in the city 
Too many days lots to a screen 
Subways and trains
Tall buildings and cranes
Gone drive a man insane

For i need a week out in the woodland 
With a lantern and kerosene
Pines cones and sparks
September dark 
Come runaway with me 

Cause i've been thinking 
This town ain't what it used to be 
And i've been dreaming 
Of campfires under alpine tress
And sunsets over lake louise 

And i've been thinking
This town ain't where we both should be 
And iv'e been wandering
If you'll wander round this world with me

And i've been thinking 
This town ain't what it used to be
And i've been dreaming 
Of campfires under alpine trees
And Sunset over lake louise 
And of you wandering this world with me 
Come runaway with me 

So many roads to follow
So many river to seek
So many mountains and bays
All them stars on display
Come runaway with me

Abel Hawnt - Lake Louise (with lyrics)

Brother, I

Listen to 'Everything's Different (Yellow Springs)' from Edward + Jane's upcoming album "With You, Always" to be released May 28, 2020

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📝 Lyrics:

Yellow springs
The morning sings her song
Holding heaven hand-in-hand
‘til break of dawn

You ruined me too easily
The night we met
Two fools in love, I think
Are a worthwhile bet

Look outside your window
Blurry picture in the pane
Imagine you are younger
Dreaming of the life
You want to make
I know it seems like 
Everything’s different
But nothing’s changed

Time won’t cheat you
While you’re young
But play a little longer son

Wake up one day
Now the rest
Are simply memories
At best
Memories at best

Look outside your window
Blurry picture in the pane
Imagine you are younger
Dreaming of the life
You want to make
I know it seems like 
Everything’s different
But nothing’s changed

Everything’s different
But nothing’s changed

Edward + Jane - Everything's Different (Yellow Springs) (with lyrics)

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

'Three Cars' by Sandtimer
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Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Cover artwork by Simon Thomas, Photini Knoyle and William Thomas

Three Cars

have more faith in humanity

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