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Snake Charm Girl

by B! Machine

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The Drawing Circle
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The Drawing Circle He's back to tear my soul and heart apart only to build it up again. Few artists has such an impact on me as B! Machine does, been listening since early 2000. Please come to NYC for a show or two. Favorite track: Painted Face.
Jim Payne
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Jim Payne The master is back, and I could not be happier. B! Machine is the apex of synthwave music -- or whatever other label you might wish to use as a genre descriptor. The important thing is that B! Machine has the ability to make music that is emotionally resonant and vocally powerful in a way that is warm and cold simultaneously. It is a dichotomy that could be complete in no other way. Welcome back -- it's a great pleasure to be hearing your music again! Favorite track: Chasing the Cloud.
Jobblogh
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Jobblogh Awesome album.
I'm glad to listen B! Machine again after several years. Favorite track: The Other Girl.
cempearson
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cempearson Long time in the works, definitely worth the wait. Lots to choose from in the super-long new album. "The Last Leaf Falls' is epic. Keep the excellence coming, Nate!
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1.
I thought I'd fall in love tonight but now I don't really want to I carry cash into evening's flight and I pour a drink for two you say it's not fair to the other girl I thought I'd live a noble life but now I don't think I want to and if I end in sword and strife I'll still raise a glass to you you say it's not fair to the other girl but then I don't care for the other girl 
2.
I don’t know where the money comes from I don’t think you want to know but if you stay one night with me if you just stay one night with me I have a room here without an exit I have a dream where we both could live and if you stay one night with me if you just stay one night with me (I promise you) morning will never come between us this is a map of the stars in hiding the Crimson Chamber, and our satellites and if you stay one night with me if you just stay one night with me (I promise you) morning will never come between us I promise you that morning will never come between us 
3.
Let's lie down where the world can't find us and the stars are breaking through the clouds let's down without word or whisper where we're free to kiss and dream aloud let's lie my valentine and we'll drown all of our sorrows in your love's divine let's lie across your table-top and our names will be a prayer till our two hearts stop let's lie down with the past leaf falling we will heed our calling through the crowd on this earth we will love or falter make this day our alter for all it's worth let's lie my valentine and we'll drown all of our sorrows in your love's divine let's lie across your table-top and our names will be a prayer till our two hearts stop 
4.
Stranger 06:39
The dream is coming back like water to the well returning to the place where you found me the fires are burning bright the patterns on your robe the smile of a stranger through the smoke whispering your words I hear of fireworks to come and we are meeting in the lazy rush of something all of these stars are ours to count and pull apart surrendering their loveliness in our world stand we are standing but where is our glory dream and show me the ghost of our story inked in undoing drawn to a bloom where will we wake in the morning you and your youth held in your hands me and my eyes awaiting something spoken in seconds spoken too soon are we at home in this land whispering your words I hear of fireworks to come and we are meeting in the lazy rush of something all of these stars are ours to count and pull apart surrendering their loveliness in our world leave me lost but breathing in a past once worth achieving in the smile of the stranger whispering your words 
5.
We are closer now press your lips to mine help me understand how we are love defined passion lifts us to greater heights you and I are all that's good in the world tonight snow is falling and we are watching from warmer places drinks are pouring and we are laughter and conversation we are closer now press your lips to mine help me understand how we are love defined passion lifts us to greater heights you and I are all that's good in the world tonight 
6.
Pieces of Me 02:30
Hate me if it makes you happy eat me one piece at a time my knife is yours, I taught you how to use it there's a bottle something strong it will help if you abuse it but you’ll never get my heart if I ever had one it was my second favorite part but it didn’t fit the pieces of me hate me if it makes you happy break me into little bits my time is yours, I showed you how to waste it there's a bottle of something strong it may blur the line between right or wrong but you’ll never get my heart if you ever can find it it was my most intriguing part but it fought against the pieces of me hate me if it makes you happy 
7.
Painted Face 03:57
Here at the banquet where all is unknown nothing is purchased and I'm never alone all is decided by faces unseen on waters reflected on a kiss undetected upon sometimes I'm forgetful of the malice she brought when I'm tied in she-loves-me-knots on days when I'm perfectly broken and she's all that I got I am tied in she-loves-me-knots is that a bell ringing or my heart beating or my breath escaping in the night is there a morning after or a resurrection are you ever complete after sometimes I'm forgetful of the malice she brought when I'm tied in she-loves-me-knots on days when I'm perfectly broken and she's all that I got I am tied in she-loves-me-knots 
8.
One Flesh 04:12
Here I am under your blue your sigh and if I do not leave here soon I will never leave here we are holding one truth one lie and if I do not kiss you soon we will never kiss here you lie one for the road has taken its toll and you and I might not rise from this shambles in one flesh 
9.
Is your friend coming over tonight will you watch another episode until the it's clear the morning girl is near on the eve of your birthday's second round straightening out silk hands down you hear the sounds of bells always slightly out of key endearing you to me are your hands in the upward spiral now coming close fingers breaking through I think opening the door bringing me to you are your hands opening the door is your friend coming over tonight will you watch another episode until the morning girl is near 
10.
Pretty girl on a train approaching the gentleman is captive in his seat from temporary glance to new romance nothing is lost no word is indiscreet she is many doors into heaven each a shade more deviant to me she is many doors into heaven each a form of beauty we could be pretty girl on the train approaching the gentleman is poured into his drink from temporary glance to new romance nothing is lost unless in that moment we blink out of orbit out of time if we fall down to darker reaches if the earth comes up up to greet us out of orbit out of time let us wake up on pale beaches where our love is no crime she is many doors into heaven each a shade more deviant to me she is many doors into heaven each a form of beauty we could be 
11.
Everything we did that mattered was written in your blood and covered in mine our promises and all our lies were written in your blood and covered in mine the only prayer we ever spoke was written in your blood and covered in mine our lasting valediction was written in your blood and covered with mine 
12.
This Field 04:15
Your god made me an angel but he forgot my winds I realized I was made of pretty and wicked things where my heart should have been your soul was bleeding through I dreamt of fields of you your god gave me a hand-grenade so I pulled he pin I had nowhere to hide it but that place where my heart had been so I passed the seconds till I came apart from the inside I never knew if my dreams of you lived or died but I am here now I am here now I am here in this field waiting for you now your god made me an angel but the parts were flawed into a form of perfection that a god never knew or never saw I came to understand that I was gone and your gods were gone and we were waiting for you I am here now I am here now I am here in this filed waiting for you now I am here now I am dreaming and you are all I need now here in this field now where all is revealed now 
13.
In All Ways 03:57
Who put the thought inside my head if it wasn't you I knew your beauty and drowned in your spring why do we fail when we should beat everything who put the dream inside my head if it wasn't you then tell me who 'cause I caught your voice when you were falling why are we frail when we should beat all things 
14.
I Could Be 06:02
I could be somewhere beside you I could be somewhere close but I have gone I have left you now I could be somewhere close we could be in conversation we could be under clearing skies but I have gone I am stars and sighs I could be somewhere close my child my now-born dream in the end you are all that I mean my child my now-born friend you are all that I mean in the end you will be somewhere in transit you will be lost in life and thought I've gone I have gone though I've left you now I could be somewhere close my child my now-born dream in the end you are all that I mean my child my now-born friend you are all that I mean in the end 
15.
Ginza Line 05:38
I want you to know I don't think that you'll ever love me if you don't love me now come to me she said I will always need you or was it always bleed you come to me she said I will always need or were you born on a day that I couldn't believe you were you born on a day that I couldn't leave you I want you to know I don't think that you'll ever love me if you don't love me now
16.
I overcame my fear of angels poured ink onto this page I should have left you a memory and me inside my cage all decisions were simple things never once thought through between the better and worse of evils I choose you I looked for something lost in your words something I should miss asking questions after midnight in the dreams where we would kiss there is nothing that I can give you that won't fall back to earth that won't fall back to earth beside you complicate and stand astride you I overcame my fear of angels I gather flowers for us two between the better and the worse of evils I will always choose you 
17.
Life is spent chasing the cloud unbelieving where do I find you now am I missing you in laughter on the streets where we once played did the children we were grow into the fools we are today I know you have forgotten more than I care to remember I want to walk out of this world and find that the heaven I lost is with you waiting life is spent murdering dreams compromising until the ends don't justify the means am I missing you on birthdays in the alleys where we prayed coarse graffiti on out halos marks the passage of the day I know you have forgotten more than I care to remember I want to walk out of this world and find that the heaven I lost is with you waiting
18.
Find comfort in these things the night air as your fingers cling to the memory of liquid times where we rushed into all our crimes we bury the greed wherever we can it’s not like we ever needed it (that much) we bury the greed in the place where it was born between the body of the girl and the book we found her with playtime was educational and now you’ve raised the stakes no touch no dalliance was ever unintentional but life takes what it takes (time takes the rest) we bury the greed in this we are agreed not that we needed agreement we bury the greed in the place where we found it between the body of the girl and the dress she wore no more 
19.
I am a broken thing in love with broken things I dream of meeting you in our shadows I am a broken thing the crown prince the queen the king of what our kisses bring in our shadows and I'm learning a thing or three about the worst of me you taste as sweet as the angels said as sweet as the breath that speed every curse every kiss every joy that you used to break me where will it take me she said I marveled at your sleep unfolding through your creases into beautiful you bright and dark where it pleases I am a broken thing in love with broken things and maybe one day I will know you when our blood runs red you'll taste as sweet as the angels said 
20.
Our love is like a tide rushing toward us our love is like a tide taking us away and bringing light to shadows this dream doesn't end this dream doesn't end its taking us away and bringing light to shadows I promise that today is never-ending I promise that today I'm taking us away and bringing life to shadows you are the perfect girl you make me happy you are my favorite word please ring inside these ears bringing life to shadows you and I you and I every smile every time we kiss another moment in this day we'll build into a life of
21.
You come into the daylight love and other past-times you needn't wash these from your hands you may never know another may never be completed some things you may never understand you were born under a dark sky you died under a dark sky and all the brightness in-between a dream a dream a child and his mother the words upon a cover of a book you'll never read there is no reason to cry 
22.
I fear you less yes a little bit less today I don't pretend I could ever embrace more than a weekday of your grace but on these Saturdays of your empty space your heart's place where everything I want I have and everything I need is waiting and still there is a certain sadness 'cause none of it will ever last for all we know it ends in pain and all we'll ever share is secret is every kiss I give to you the promise of a s certain sadness I miss you less yes a little bit less today I don't pretend you could ever comprehend but the broken pieces aren't meant to mend but on these Saturdays when our shadows bend I fear you less yes a little bit less today I don't pretend I could ever embrace more than a weekday of your grace but on these Saturdays of your empty space your heart's place where everything I want I have and everything I need is waiting and still there is a certain sadness 'cause none of it will ever last for all we know it ends in pain and all we'll ever share is secret is every kiss I give to you the promise of a s certain sadness   
23.
You were a testament to god's own contradictions you killed the child in me and brought a smile to my face I had so much to learn that you couldn’t teach me even the presence and truth of death it just couldn't reach me I will never leave you because there's nothing left of you to leave I don't need to leave you just a heart to grieve you and a song

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released August 5, 2022

Words and Music: N.L. Nicoll
Cover Design: N.L. Nicoll / M. Hayden

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