Alternarratives

by One Dog Clapping

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Alternarratives 07:25
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What was lost can always be found if it’s real then it’ll always be around if your destination seems confused you can refocus by finding something true because the journey ain’t quite what it seems it’s partly vision and partly dreams let them tell you what you need you ain’t alone So the stories that you tell yourself are you certain they don’t come from somewhere else are you sure they take you where you need to go are they telling you what you need to know so grab your pen and choose your words think of the order in which you want them heard take out anything that you don’t believe that which doesn’t serve you needs to be released Find the freedom to tear it down and build your world back the right way round and then to reach out to where you’ll be and find the freedom to accept your destiny You already have all that you need so don’t give in to temptation and greed there’s untold riches if you just look within they go back all the way to your origin so find your feet and show the way you’ll be teaching yourself every day if you sway with what you know to be true you can withstand whatever will come at you And find the freedom to stare it down live your life like it’s the right way round and then to reach out to where you’ll be and find the freedom to accept your destiny Find the freedom to tear it down and build your world back the right way round and then to reach out to where you’ll be and find the freedom to accept your destiny Only you can know the way
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Unbetween II 05:03
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I came alive from in between towers of statues shadows unseen I see the pattern from the outside all but forgotten once we're inside I'm singing pictures no craven image a different language a wider landscape captured reflections echoes of your heartbeat now represented your will given shape The sun seemed hidden the sun seemed lost the sun seemed mythic maybe it never was you can't ignore it not if you're honest open the doorway within your heart You live the answer just let it happen confusion reigns when you try too hard you'll cross the threshold of understanding by finding silence and listening
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The Best Seat in the House 03:37
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As I was saying to the fireman your battles are only temporary there can never be a winner without destroying everything so find your feet and stand your ground you’ve got the best seat in the house I’m a fever at night some of it is lost during the day when you believe every night You can find a way A stall of bottles attracts wide eyes a hall of vessels with nothing to pour within’s the same as without you’ve got the best seat in the house I’m a fever at night some of it is lost during the day when you believe every night You can find a way As I explained to the fireman your battles are always temporary the real action is on the inside the real fire never dies so find your feet and stand your ground you’ve got the best seat in the house I’m a fever at night some of it is lost during the day when you believe every night You can find a way I’m a fever at night I know what it costs during the day and I believe every night so I can find my way
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No Drop In the Ocean 04:49
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All is flood everywhere the flood that’s like a desert memories and anticipations are horizons around the present searching for a signal in amongst the noise as I go to move a mountain with the sound of my voice The flood keeps getting deeper all I’ve ever done is swim I could keep diving forever and still it doesn’t sink in forever torn between the desire to despair and to rejoice because all I’ve got to move the mountain is the sound of my voice As I explained to the princess, I was a grown up once but you end up staring at the desert when you try to make sense as far as I can see, all is waves in this place all I need to move the mountain is the sound of my voice
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The Hiss and The Hat 04:23
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you dance round the fire to the hiss and to the hat you dance to the power that the fire gives back you dance round the fire and it's all that you can do you dance round the fire and the fire is true It's not the getting of the fortune it's how you give with it It's not the setting that's important it's how you live with it you dance round the fire to the hiss and to the hat you dance for the power that the fire gives back you dance round the fire and it's all that you can do you dance round the fire and the fire burns true wallflower have you forgotten why you came ask the floorpiece to show you again you dance round the fire to the hiss and to the hat you dance with the power that the fire gives back you dance round the fire and it's all that you can do you dance round the fire and the fire burns through it's true that nothing really matters but not in the way that you think the fire is the pattern the dance is yours to bring you dance round the fire to the hiss and to the hat you dance for the power that the fire gives back you dance round the fire it's the fire that's real you dance round the fire and you love what you feel you dance round the fire to the hiss and to the hat you dance with the power that the fire gives back you dance round the fire and it's all that you can do you dance round the fire and the fire is you
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These Curtains Call 05:54
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well it looks like a river when seen from above if you think it's a picture you're not close enough you can look all around it without going in but until you have been there inside then you really don't know anything There's a signal you can't quite hear a signal quiet but clear it feels like a rhythm and it moves like a pulse when you get up right close to it, it can be nothing else as soon as you describe it, it becomes the past tense it becomes externalised and gradually loses its sense There's a signal you can't quite hear a signal still yet to appear One by one these curtains fall on and on these curtains call well you know what you're doing or at least what you think or at least what you're seeing, oh come now there must be something it can't be just an accident that really is just so we have to accept that sometimes we bump up against that which we just cannot know There's a signal you can't quite hear a signal quiet but clear There's a signal you can't quite hear yes, the signal that won’t disappear One by one these curtains fall on and on these curtains call one by one these curtains rise on and on the veil replies
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The Upward Way 05:58
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No Other Way Back Home 05:04
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woke up this morning and it had all changed shape it seemed so much easier to make my escape so I walked off quickly into the sunrise with forgotten footprints and a tingle in my eyes when I saw her smile and she turned my way I knew right then I was in the matinee though I thought I'd been there and left all that behind this time I knew there was really something to find You don't know why you're doing it, you do it anyway and you don't know what you're saying but you say it anyway It doesn’t matter what you do, you have to play again because there ain't no other way back home the dance comes slowly what you have to do is give yourself up to it, let the movement through read the signals and respond in kind don't look too close or you won't recognise your mind You don't know why you're doing it, you do it anyway and you don't know what you're saying but you say it anyway It doesn’t matter what you do, you have to play again because there ain't no other way back home you breathe out you breathe in you push back, still it comes in you give up you give in the story has you now it’s got you by the skin you tell yourself it’s just a story being formed you tell yourself the story is still being born you tell yourself that this is a riddle you must solve but I already knew the answer after I saw you unfold You don't know why you're doing it, you do it anyway and you don't know what you're saying but you say it anyway It doesn’t matter what you do, you have to play again because there ain't no other way back home
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Love's Amazing Space 09:28
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It’s a new dimension every single day It’s a new intention with everything we say If you sense the passion then you know the way It’s what happens when you and I imagine This is love’s amazing space love’s amazing space It’s a way of knowing what you have to do It’s a way of going all the way through It’s a way of showing what we know to be true It’s what happens when you and I imagine This is love’s amazing space love’s amazing space This is where one and one can become truly one (x3) This is where one and one can become love’s amazing space love’s amazing space Come and walk come and walk come and walk within (x3) Come and walk come and walk come and walk in Love’s amazing space love’s amazing space

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This is the third album in the 'Meeting the Changing Landscape' series. It has a meta-theme, like all the albums do, and this theme is telling ourselves better stories in order that we might head towards the Hills to Die On.

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released September 9, 2018

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is Flipdog, who has been home recording since the dark ages (1994), releasing it since 2001

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