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Before Then Was Now LP

by Rolemodel

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    Limited Edition Compact Disc version of "Before Then Was Now" in numbered in silver. Includes download code for the album, which includes bonus track, "Wildest Dreams".

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1.
Young Rebels 04:07
I don't wanna feed on it Cut me out, you know we'll feel better Suffocated solitude I found you Split in two Gotta get away from this Tend to my wounds, the limb will be severed This love is spent Show me the end Gut me like a friend Oh. oh. oh. And I wanna be with you Prime of our youth, we should be together Don't feel smothered by the sun and moon We are free I wanna let it bleed Oh. oh. oh.
2.
Bilingual 03:20
Acolytes of an American dream I'll follow you if you follow me The famous star of a forgotten scene You make your own kind of empathy I can see I held a secret at seventeen I say yeah, say yeah, say yeah And you know what it did to me I say hey, say hey, say hey And the language is new to me So come on, come on, come on We're looking for a new disease Night come and drag me back to hell It's what I wanted No case to play your favorite game
3.
I'll keep warm On cool days This spring I'll take care I'll sail Off way Time (is not our friend)
4.
Raise your hands for the love and hate we Spill all over every daily, weekly This boredom had you from the start Golden years and a smile worth faking An empty promise is a promise worth making Not just for fun, no you want it all City wakes up in the morning, kills you Stay in bed so long the days pass through you This one track mind will break your heart The only promise is the one you're breaking The only risk is the one we're taking When will this story have a start? You, you never close your eyes Anymore when I kiss you And you, you never close your eyes ©RLMDL
5.
Polaroid 04:57
I remember meeting you in the spring time Fell out of forward thinking for days Now every look and every truth, even white lies Are cut up like paper mache and clay I pictured you on a beach in France I pictured you with your new romance Spending your nights in his starry eyes Talking of lives you both were too drunk to find How could you laugh and walk away? I watched you laugh and walk away There's nothing left for me to say Now as you laugh and walk away I remember seeing you in summer time Caught up on every moment to date Now every breath and every shy look in your eyes Hardened by broken promises made I pictured you on a beach in France I pictured you with your new romance How could he laugh and walk away? Nothing will ever feel the same When I want you, I want you back When I want you, I want you back
6.
I'll be your loan shark Get along somehow We can get out Spin their world around Get in my new car Drive it to your house Fuck the red lights Speed of sound So vacant The city drains our blood Can't we move on? Burn bridges, I would You'll feel a loan shark Swimming to the shore The boring translation Poisoned to the core Where's your boyfriend now? Stuck in the same old town Load up on wine, you'll never see the sun With the moon in your eyes
7.
Cover Girl 04:38
And was it really worth it? To be this? Don't even know what garment to wear I hope it's not a mistake They even wrote your name on the wall Are they laughing when they see the pain in your heart? Are they laughing now when you're afraid and in the dark? Or when you beg and plead? We all get ours, we all take what we need We all get ours, don't be so hard to please And when I walked in the room, I saw them talking to you And when I started to move, I found I was frozen too To their demands, to their remarks To their demands Don't you love it when he says your name all wrong? Don't you love it when the summer wades in your arms? No winter and no rain We all get ours, we all come out to play We all get down, it gets so hard to fake Slaves to our gods To our names To our fates and to our brains
8.
Strange way to start Without a war And working at the same old job You wonder what for See and that's the trouble with you Timing all your troubles by two Where is my holiday weekend When will this end? I'm living under false pre-tense False weakness Maybe that's the trouble with you Believing your trouble's so true
9.
Pretender 04:40
You don't have to say anything I know what you mean I couldn't wait anyway I would bet it all on everything And hope again once more For your love For your love As night falls and we go to sleep I dream of every face That you're wearing these days And when the darkness comes to carry me away And the white light fades For your love For your love

about

"Before Then Was Now" was written and recorded between June 2012 and March 2013, in various bedrooms and studios in Toronto and London, Ontario.

Download of this album includes 10 tracks, plus the b-sides
"Wildest Dreams" and "A Good Start", as well as an unreleased track, "Omissions"(feat. Olivia Borkosky).

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "BILINGUAL":
vimeo.com/78535463

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "YOUNG REBELS":
vimeo.com/86672878

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released June 11, 2013

All songs written and produced by Rolemodel.

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Rolemodel Toronto, Ontario

Dream-pop/electronic project of Jordan Allen, an artist based in Toronto, Canada.

photo by Jamie Kronick.

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