Your beauty is a message, love.
My dreams are full of your face and touch.
But I cannot be near you anymore,
I cannot cry no more.

Y'know, I did not mean him no harm,
And I did not mean to break up your happy home.
You've just got this fucking power over me, that I cannot ignore.
I cannot fight it no more.

Well, I fell off the wagon, started drinking again.
Started spending that money that I just didn't have.
But the sun will still rise, and the sun will still set.
Life would just be easier if you were here with me instead.

Let Me Begin With An Apology - Live at Manchester University

I can see an old church from my window, 
And sometimes I wish I could go,
Walk around in someone elses clothes, 
Hope and sing like the good Christians do.
But the path I chose, it is different. 
No I won't bend my knee for you.
Rather wander around a cold universe, 
I will not be accountable to.

But am I worse in my own congregation, with money my only true god?
40 hours a week to what justified end? To be the more cohesive cog.
It's so easy to right the worlds problems, in barroom or other-such talk,
Then continue to prey at my desk through the day, too loyal to the system to stop.

The Amalgamation of Capital (and other bedtime tales)

Patron Saint (Live at Cafe #9)

Blood Moon (Live at Cafe #9)

Old Crow in the Sycamore  (Live at Cafe #9)

Old Crow

Samantha (Kid Conventional Cover)

Magpie

Across The Great Divide

Cheap Sunglasses

Redundant Blues

Thomas & The Empty Orchestra is the music of Thomas Matthew Bower. Sheffield born he moved to the twin city of Bochum, Germany in late 2020.

Taking influence from the likes of Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, The Good Life, Fleet Foxes and the broader American emo scene he crafts folk songs rich with poetic imagery; tales of frailty, love, the grim English North and the transience of being. 

He is working on new music currently, with a view to releasing and touring in 2021 (global pandemic permitting).

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