4 years in the making, the second album from the five-piece indie rock group, Civil Hands, is now available to buy on limited LP vinyl run.

Engineered and mixed by Craig Honeysett, Dotted Eight Studios and mastered by Rick O’Neill, Turtlerock Mastering.

A Side:

1. Burn

2. The New Plastic

3. Eye of the Storm

4. A Benediction

5. Rising Sun

B Side:

1. The Living Stream

2. Crash

3. Ghosts of California

4. Dig

5. Run

6. Skylines

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The debut album from the five piece indie rock group, Civil Hands, cites a number of influences from 90's alternative through to southern rock.

1. Last Lovers Alive

2. Duck for Cover

3. Fallen

4. Feeling for Fashion

5. Southern Song

6. Hold On

7. Save Me

8. Beautiful Lies

9. Otherman

10. Stand Up

11. These Bridges

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Hold On

The new single off the debut album, Leave It All Behind (available 02 Dec 16). 

Available now on iTunes and Bandcamp (Digital Download).

Otherman

Released October 2015. Available on Spotify, iTunes and Bandcamp (Digital Download).

Burn

Gouged your name right into the ground
Left a permanent scar to prove you were around
Later they’ll say it was a suicidal game
But you played it anyway, while you burned our houses down
Yeah you burned our houses down

So cover your eyes so you can’t see the light
Let the fools on the hill fill their faces tonight
Look the other way, to the left and to the right
They’re playing away, while they set your house on fire
Yeah they’ve set your house on fire

Take a singular blind obsession
And a particular kind of vision
Build a pile from all your blessings
And burn it down

The future’s a billboard, tonight you are the star
Live for the second cause the hour’s too far
Set the temperature gauge, so you’re withering away
Dancing in the flames, while you burn our houses down
Yeah you burn our houses down

It’s easier in than it is in getting out
Standing on the edge and we’re staring at the ground
It’s harder not play with the way they rig the game
The leaders, the liars, and your whole damn house on fire
Your whole damn house on fire

The New Plastic

(There is even now something of ill omen amongst us
The growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions
In lieu of the sober judgment)

Somethings coming over me, a feeling of epiphany
A little bit of apathy mixed in with some of industry
Let me spell it for you, let’s begin

This is the new directive
So strap your face to the plastic
There’s nothing new in reality
So take a new identity

(There is even now something of ill omen amongst us
The worse than savage mobs)

We’re gnawing on these empty things and filling up our empty skins
Shouting underneath the din, to be seen, well
See what you reap now when you sow the wind

We're nothing but static
The signals lost, ours receivers are all erratic
Just random shapes and some
Messed up stereophonics
We gotta find some comfort in silence
Inside before we’re lost in the noise and the static

Somethings coming over me, a feeling of epiphany
A little bit of apathy mixed in with some of industry
Let me spell it for you now

This is the new directive
So strap your face to the plastic
There’s nothing new in reality
So take a new identity
We gotta find some comfort in silence
Inside before we’re lost in the noise and the static

(Cassius was right, the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves)

We're static
We’re clinging hard to this burning feeling of panic
Screaming out to be heard in the mess of the sonics
We gotta find some comfort in silence
Inside before we’re lost in the noise and the static

Eye of the Storm

We ride, oh how we ride
Along the night
We fly, oh how we fly
Through the summer sky
We pray, oh how we pray
Just one more day

Welcome to the eye of the storm
Time to shake the demons off
Now you’re in the eye of the storm
Time to catch a hold of your fragile self

We’re alive for this moment
With our wild hearts high
Can you feel it in the air tonight
It’s breaking nigh

We’ve been flailing and fading for so long now
We’ve been flailing and failing for so long now
We’ve been wading in waste deep for so long now
For so long now, for so long now

We ride, oh how we ride
To the dawning light
We fly, oh how we fly
With our wild hearts high
We pray, oh how we pray
Cause it’s breaking nigh

A Benediction

Hoping for a benediction
I'd settle for a taste of whiskey
And a better change of circumstance 

Staring at a pale reflection
Wondering what they'll put me in for
We're lonely but we’ll only take one chance

Consume my pride and eat my envy
I'll bear the blame and wear the wounding
We're stumbling blind, I hear your art but nothing's left 

Christ it's like the resurrection
We could rise but Babel's burning
Better not to try than face the consequence 

Why the fear to need you to breathe and perceive you
These confessions again
Oh, the pain it stays
Burn it out, this innocent flesh is stained 

I haven't got what it takes to make this a big success
But give me twenty odd years and I'll find a way out of this mess
Finally all of the fakes will be feeling the new intent
But give them twenty odd years, they'll be feeding the foolish again 

No I ain't got what it takes to make this a big success
But give me twenty odd years, I'll believe in something I guess
Finally all of the fakes will be feeling the new intent
But give them twenty odd years, they'll be feeding the foolish again
credits
 

The Living Stream

Run softly, she says to me
We can’t seem to find a way outta here

We’re bleeding, she says to me
We can’t seem to find a way outta here

We won’t be, no we won’t be
We won’t believe in anything
We can’t see, no we can’t see
We can’t seem to find the living stream

I was dreaming, she says to me
I held all the answers in front of me

Reality, bearing down on me
We’re just two more victims of gravity

Run softly, she says to me
We can’t seem to find the living stream
We’re bleeding, she says to me
We can’t seem to find the living stream

Crash

It came…
…crashing like a cannonball
Hey Mary did it move you at all
Did it break you down to the bone
Like you cut me down to the core

This is…
…not the sound of the end of the world
You start out like there's never a before
You wake up it's strangers at arms
In the end we're just another war

Brace yourself (Better go ahead and brace yourself)
Go ahead and brace yourself (Better go ahead and brace yourself)
This is the worst day
Of the rest of your life

You saved yourself (Just had to go and save yourself)
You went ahead and saved yourself (Just had to go and save yourself)
This is the first day
And the best of your life

It's the...
…same old story with just another name
Walking out of the windows again
Another break, another foothold regained
Mix it up and but it all tastes the same

This is...
…not the sound of the end of the world
You start out with the best of it all
You wake up it's pistols at dawn
In the end it's just another war

Two lives of too stray vectors
Predestined for intersection
You're just the first / You are the last
Brace for the crash

Ghosts of California

Been standing here for so long, I know something's going on
But I don’t know what
There’s reasons we’re falling, tomorrow’s ghost is calling
But we won’t give it up

Last night we dreamt of summers in Hollywood
With a tendency for rain
It won’t be long before these demons that follow us
We won’t see them again

I lied when I told you my feelings were over
That picture of her from the Fall
Come closer, come lately, come hell or high water
We’re bracing ourselves for the war.

Only just yesterday, you said send them all away
I think that our cover here is blown
On Venice and Sunset we’ll find what we lost again
And make our own Babylon

Dig

Slip the needle in and put the contents under pressure
It’s underneath the skin but the damage has a way of leaking out

The fire's in the east and the cross is in my eye
Dealt you one of these so what’s it worth to eat the lie

And you squeeze and you squeeze till the wounds so deep that you can’t heal it any more
And you dig in deeper to feed the fever of all the seething animals

Slip the needle in and put the contents under pressure
You gotta push it down, down if you wanna shake us out

And you squeeze and you squeeze till the wounds so deep that you can’t heal it any more
And you dig in deeper to feed the fever of all the seething animals

Dig deep then kneel, face left, don’t feel, you gotta push it down down
Dig deep then kneel, face left, don’t feel, you gotta push it down down

Slip the needle in and put the contents under pressure,
(Dig deep then kneel, face left, don’t feel)
Put the contents under pressure

Run

We took the night, took it alone
We took the sky above, to be our own
They came at night, they came alone
Came for the two of us, to bear us home

Run, run, run for deliverance
Soaked to the bone and shivering
Run, run, run for deliverance

The world was young, and so were we
An ocean could not stand, between our need
We broke the waves, they washed us clean
All we have is everything, we’re wild and free

Run, run, run for deliverance
Soaked to the bone and shivering
Run, run, run for deliverance

The road on the river, the bridge on the border
The call of the river, the call of the water
The fall of the innocent, rise to the calling
Run to the river, run to the water
Run to the river tonight
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Run, run, run for deliverance
Soaked to the bone and shivering
Run, run, run for deliverance
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Skylines

Wake me up before the sunrise
Take me out beyond the borderlines
With no doubt or sense or reason at all
And we’ll wait there until the skylines fall

When you can’t sleep at night and the weeks are a daze
When you’re losing the fight with the shadows and fades
On the ground with no sense or meaning at all
Share the weight here until these skylines fall

Skylines, guidelines, living on the white lines
Shaping up and making all these little white lies
Skylines, guidelines, living on the white lines
There’s a trail to the distance to bury our minds

So just brace in the night and count up the days
For the vicious flight from the shadows and fades
Off the ground with a sense of the meaning of it all
Wear the weight now and witness the skylines fall

Skylines, guidelines, living on the white lines
Shaping up and making all these little white lies
Skylines, guidelines, living on the white lines
There’s a trail to the distance to bury our minds

Skylines, fault lines, bleeding on the red line
Shaping up and making all the little white lies
Skylines, hands tied, living on the white lines
Trace a trail of the distance and weight of our lives

Wake me up before the sunrise
Take me out beyond the borderlines
With no doubt or sense or reason at all
And we’ll wait there until the skylines fall

Last Lovers Alive

Let’s talk about love, or life, or nothing
They’re all the same
Let’s talk about all the ways we’re running
And the reasons we remain
I’m wondering if we had seen this coming
Would we have saved the world today
We were the last of all the lovers
No one will feel this way again

It started in the fall with the sense that the summer  
Was the antidote to rain
We ended up jumping into each other
To stave the winter strain
And we must be unique, we’re the first to discover
That there is more beyond the pale
We are the last of all the lovers
No one will feel this way again

Before there was you there was nothing but the struggle
And the seasons and the weight
There was just a sore and a lowly lover
Knowing nothing but to take
When are you sending me someone to covet
Against this solitary fate
We’ll be the first of all of the lovers
To ever feel this way
 

Fallen

I’ve been having trouble sleeping
Something to do with this feeling of déjà vu
And my head is spinning
I got something to prove to you

When we make too much noise
And when they all come to our door
We’ll explain that the rain half a world away
Is falling for you / I’m falling

A memory of knives, night
Unconscious moves and days
A paternity of lies and flight
Cigarettes and ashtrays

Where’s a broken man to go?
There’s pieces of us everywhere
Guess that’s why that the sky half the time
Is falling for you / I’m falling

This legacy of life in fright
The vicious blues and greys
The gravity of day and night
Always stealing you away

And if we make it through this time
Let’s agree we won’t ask why
That we find that the sky half the time
Is falling for you / I’m falling

So let’s make too much noise
When they all come to our door
We’ll explain that the rain half a world away
Is falling for you / I’m falling
We’ve all fallen for you