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Learning to Be

by The Other Way

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1.
Guidance 04:39
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Have a sit down Don’t stop to look Keep moving Wear the right clothes Don’t stop to dress Keep going When you’re in town It’s a new age and questions don’t need answers Drizzle back down Bind up the sky and dance across the chimneys Open yourself Don’t show the fear Keep crying Double back down Don’t show your face Keep smiling It’s a new time Wonderful swollen angels bear their cargo Struggle like vines Wending you’re way down scary boats of midnight Instrumental Make a new path Stick to the map Don’t go there Kicking up sparks All bets are off Just go there Make a right turn Into the gaze of weeping eyes all bleary When you get time Fend off the newts and wash away the fairies Have a sit down Don’t stop to look Keep moving Wear the right clothes Don’t stop to dress Keep going Opening out Spandrels time all busy open season Tumbling through the eye of the storm All hairy beasts of burden
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Back to the Centre 05:40
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Get here any way you can It don’t matter ‘cos there’s no charge left to pay Get here any way you can Take the train, they don’t have windows that’s one thing I can say You’ll need protection from the glare As the sun in knife like visions creep across the sky It’s only sometimes that we care ‘Cos time is wearing thin now ever since the storm The fires burned on through the gloom Taking everything, taking everything We threw our bodies to the swarm As the fought to take the last of what we owned We found there’s something left to save Now we understand, now we understand The fires fold into a seed So just get here if you can, across the burning ground
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Chrysalis 07:47
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All that you see You’re intended to see The world that you’re in Is for you and you alone Metamorphose Metamorphose, feel the change As the skies turn to grey Burrowing through Into the leaves As the tracheal tubes start to grow All that you see You’re intended to see The world that you’re in Is for you and you alone Under the skin Safe in the void As the wind makes the rain dance away Nowhere to hide Caught by the blade As the seeds blast apart in the spray
4.
Sit Down 08:59
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While you were gone things changed We couldn’t get through on the phone We couldn’t persuade them to leave that place And you will see What they have done The birds were all flying north We didn’t take in the signs How many times do we have to explain? The time’s run out There’s nothing left The rains never came this year The showers of dust have cleared The horses were seen somewhere in the murky glow But too far They’ve gone too far All your accounts have been blocked They’re tracking you as we speak They know where you are so just let us take the weight Sit down It won’t be long There’s no turning back the clock Sensations of what’s been lost But now in the age of loneliness we find It’s too late It’s just too late
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Jackie’s Song 06:30
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Nidderdale 07:50
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Nidderdale, silently sloping beyond the pale How did we lose our certainty Inexorably to the sea Drizzling through Our dismal prophecy Gentian Common centaury, Celandine Evening primrose, Butterwort Selfheal and travellers joy Trapped in the seedbank Waiting to be free Nidderdale, silently shading to monochrome Devils bit scabious Rupturewort Cleavers and wayfaring tree Trapped in the seedbank Waiting to be free Mend and twine Doesn’t come easy Won’t they say Where did I leave my sense of time Stumbling down unseen Starved of a world of colours Torn from sight
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Walking Guide 06:57
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Walk across the field Sticking to the wall Then you’ll find a gate Left across the bridge Pull into the town and see The graves of ancient clans Spirits of the trees exhale The cold against their skins Bear towards the church By the sighing stream See the ancient copse Feel a sense of loss Harden in the sun somehow Necessity takes hold We can only wonder why We never can let go Follow down the lane By the leaning tree See the spreading mound Don’t be tempted down Hide among the reeds which ooze Their power and decay You were never meant to see This breaking of the world As you move around Try to understand Sacred leaves intact To rub upon the wound Harden in the sun somehow Necessity takes hold We can only wonder why We never can let go
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Archeopteryx 07:21
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Arthur’s Song 07:37
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Learning to appreciate All the troubles all the troubles you bring As I walk through land and dale I’ll be thinking I’ll be thinking of you Through the only channels We go sailing through night and day Even as I understand what they’re selling What they’re selling to me We were once just notions Waving on a tide no-one can see When you came it was as though You’d never been away Hoping that you’ll stay with me Down the rivers and the tides of grey Heading for some unknown shore You suggested we go away
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Quarantine Song 04:33
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When the wanderers come As heroes in a dream Breathe in time Oh life, rise up again And out with the old now Time when meanings flow As feathers on the wind Emptying The lies burn out by now And gather in sparkle You who never learned To look into the dark Come what may You’ll find your self again Enraptured in shadows When the leaches come To feed upon the light Don’t forget It’s you who plays the leading role In this little drama

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Through visionless wilds of space, here it is! Thanks to all who supported us to get this far. You know who you are.

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released May 3, 2024

All music and lyrics by Rowan Porteous
Rowan Porteous - trumpet and electronics
Elly Hopkins - vocal and guitar
Billie Bottle - keyboards and vocal
Guillaume Ottaviani - bass guitar
Emma Holbrook - drum kit

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The Other Way Bristol, UK

Dystopian Soul for dancing into the void

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