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Rising Of The Lights

by Antlerland

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Way-oh way-oh Way-oh way-oh baby Way-oh way-oh Way-oh way-oh baby Whoa-oh-oh Whoa-oh-oh Whoa-oh-oh Whoa-oh-oh Way-oh way-oh Way-oh way-oh baby Way-oh way-oh Way-oh way-oh-oh-oh-oh
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Frantic 03:52
Feelin' kinda frantic First class trans-Atlantic If we're being pedantic Feels so damned romantic Atmosphere's electric Feelin' energetic My heartbeat's erratic So I'm caught up in a panic 'Cos the anxiety Of you and me What's it gonna be Don't hold out on me Just let me know If I should go I've come all this way So please let me stay (hey) This isn't how I planned it I took things for granted I misread the situation Don't need the complication 'Cos this uncertainty Between you and me What does it mean Let's come clean Let me know What I need to know If you just want to play I'll be on my way Feelin' pretty frantic I'm feelin' oh so frantic Feelin' goddamn frantic THERE'S NO NEED TO PANIC I've made up my decision I don't do ultimatums You've had a hundred second chances I've run out of patience So I'm through with the ambiguity About you and me I'll set you free From my destiny I'm letting you know What you need to know From here on in You're on your own History of you and me Let's let it fade Into memory I'll wish you good luck You were a good friend I won't look back This is the end
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Clashing pedals (it)'s no way to travel One slip and you're grinding on the gravel The peloton's no place for me I'll open up a gap so I can be free Galibier! Cool mountain air! All on my own without a care Shut up legs! It's time to go I'm dancing on the pedals and I'm putting on a show Here I go now I'm on the breakaway Over the hills and far away-ay Try to catch me Out on the breakaway Over the hills and far away from you The devil's here! Welcome to hell Twenty one corners to the top of the hill Hey idiot! Get out of the way! I'm the one they're watching 'cos I'm winning today To the victor go the spoils spray the champagne, kiss the girls A little warning, it's not the end We'll get up in the morning just to do it all again Oh, did you miss me I'm on the breakaway Over the hills and far away-ay Just try to catch me I'm on the breakaway Over the hills and far away from you The final stage, It's been a grind The maillot jeune - well, it's not mine Chapeau to them, enjoy your wine But there's one last charge down to the line Here I go now Out on the breakaway Over the hills and far away-ay Just try to catch me Out on the breakaway Over the hills and far away-oh One more go now Out on the breakaway Go 'round the Arc to Champs Elysees Don't try to catch me Out on the breakaway Over the hills and far away from you (Baby you can eat my dust)
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I want to fly far away over the ocean I want to see the shores of Elysium From grand Xanadu to the groves of Avalon I want to find the place where I belong Fantastic Escape Why do I spend the time with all of these distractions? Something's gotta keep me sane in the face of all this destruction Call it what you will, sure It's a mindful self-indulgence But it's better than the real world With corruption in abundance I'm not looking for a saviour I'll find my own way free If I can't find it in this world I'll make up my own fantasy You can call it immature But that would miss the point How much of this can you endure yourself? Fantastic Escape From endless misty moors Up to craggy mountain ranges I've seen all this before Mysteries and hidden dangers And when this journey ends I'll get ready for the next one Maybe I'll bring a friend To come along and have some fun On our ... Fantastic Escape
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Circadia 09:35
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Did you know that you talk in your sleep? And the things that you say make me wonder what I'm doing wrong So when I lay in the dark every night I drift away on the journey into day When I wake up with a song I'll have you dreaming about me The way I've been dreaming about you Yeah I'll have you dreaming about me The way I've been dreaming about you They say we live as we dream, all alone So why are you waiting for me When I slip beneath the veil Is it the same scene for you behind your eyes? Can anyone ever really know What's on the other's mind? I'll have you dreaming about me The way I've been dreaming about you So I'll have you dreaming about me The way I've been dreaming about you I'll have you dreaming about me The way that I've been dreaming about you dreaming about you dreaming 'bout you dreaming about you I ...
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New Day 02:45
There's a new day rising Rising with the morning dew A new day rising Just for me and you There's a new day coming Coming like an avalanche Yeah there's a new day coming Coming for your life There's a new day coming It's bringing a ray of hope There's a new day coming It's coming for your life There's a new day rising Chasing away the night A new day rising Rising of the lights New! New day coming There's a new day coming A new day coming Coming for your life New day rising There's a new day rising New day rising Rising of the lights-ah!
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Meeting friends in the city Meeting friends at the airport Meeting friends at the beach Meeting friends at the cafe Meeting friends in the city Meeting friends at the tennis Meeting friends at the wake Meeting friends at the protest Meeting friends in the city Meeting at the cathedral Meeting friends at the nightclub Meeting friends at the football Meeting friends in the city Meeting friends to do brunch Meeting friends to go shopping Meeting friends to get drunk Meeting friends in the city Meeting friends in the city ...
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Ortis Grind 04:09
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Hard Landing 08:10
From an all time high To a crashing low Now isn't this what you asked for? When you look at the sky Does it haunt you now Don't think too hard about the answer All your best laid plans have come to nought Your contingencies have fallen short So, where to go from here There's only fear You chose to be cruel When you could've been kind But now, you've got the hide to ask for mercy When you lost all your cool Does it eat at your mind To go cap in hand to the "unworthy" All atrocities laid by your hand Failed strategies by your command So, where to go from here Well, one thing's clear Hard landing Watch your empire fall Hard landing Hear them shout down those walls Hard landing You're about to lose it all Hard landing Here comes the final call Hey! You're only human after all Hubris, come and meet humility Was it all one grand gesture of futility So what will you do now Take your final bow Hard landing All blown to kingdom come Hard landing There goes your moment in the sun Hard landing When all is said and done Hard landing How did it all go so wrong? But hey, you're only human after all
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I've lost count of how many times you've driven me around the bend But for most of those occasions I was glad to have you as a friend All those scrapes and great escapes When we had to run and hide In all of those disasters You were there right by my side When the world keeps changing, How do you stay the same? Sometimes you're a comfort Sometimes you're a pain You've been a constant in my life And I mean a constant source of strife it certainly keeps things from getting boring I wouldn't have it any other way You've shown me how to live for today I wouldn't want to spend my whole life snoring When the world keeps changing How do you stay the same? Sometimes you're a comfort Sometimes you're a pain (When the world gets you down - I won't let you down) All this time we've spent together Heads full of steam going hell for leather Don'cha think it's time we settled down I wouldn't ever try to cramp your style You don't have to be quite so wild We can still become the scandal of this town When the world keeps changing How do you stay the same? Sometimes you're a comfort Sometimes you're a pain (When the world gets you down - I won't let you down) [Nothing's gonna come between you and I, I'm gonna lift you up to the sky,] And if you don't mind me singing The chorus once again Well, sometimes you're a comfort Mostly you're a pain
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about

City pop, country pop, dream pop, doom pop, rock pop, techno pop. Songs about escaping and friends and escaping with friends and escaping from friends.

I've found the added dimension of actual lyrics has given new impetus to my work, including finally finishing "Dreaming About You", a sketch of which I had included on Recombinant Diamond Dust back in 2010, and have now fleshed out to its full potential as a "creepy guy" ballad.

I've realised a few other ideas which have percolated for years, like Hard Landing, which was a tough one to finish, considering the high concept. Although there were a few certain... dubious personages... who provided some inspiration as I was working it out.

On The Breakaway, obviously, is about road cycling. I used Jens Voigt's "shut up legs" tagline and had a bit of fun throwing other cycling references in, since to my disgrace I know more about the sport than the Trojan War, which the song was originally going to be about.

Others just popped out of thin air and were put together very quickly, like Frantic, which just demanded to be brought into being. Kind of think it'd make a decent Eurovision entry for Australia if I whittled it down to 3 minutes, except of course it'd be ineligible anyway.

Fantastic Escape just came pretty quickly as well, although I had been poking at the concept for a while. I will admit I poured things on a bit thick with it. The guitar part comes from NI's Picked Acoustic set using the Countryside pattern. It was meant to be a placeholder but I just couldn't get rid of it.

Meeting Friends In The City came out of a "listening to too much city pop" phase, people like Minako Yoshida and Haruomi Hosono, and why not pair it up with some country pop in Comfort And Pain, written very quickly. I didn't want to end the album's lyrics with a bummer like Hard Landing and that fit the bill.

New Day? Yeah, that's just a dumb tune I actually sang to myself doing the dishes. I was going for an early Stereolab sound, Peng era. Except obviously it's not as good. But, hey, It's got the album title in it. Which apparently was an old time description of croup or pneumonia or something.

I can't say I've ever been great at writing words which is why they've rarely turned up on my albums until now, but I've had fun with them even if I resort to cliche far too often. it makes for something a little different.

I think the vocals sometimes veer into the uncanny valley (especially on Hard Landing) and I've tended to veer on the side of leaving the odd glitch in, as I do with the instrumentation. But mostly... it fits in with the rest of the Antlerland corpus, which as usual is all over the shop.

It's kicked off by Prelude (The Way-Oh Song) which is an attempt to write the most obnoxious sports anthem possible, something they'd blare at the MCG at half-time in between Messages From Our Partners, and concludes with Nocturne (The Way Out), which is very pulp noir, I guess. The sort of basic tune that's undoubtedly been written a thousand times over.

The set is rounded out by Circadia, which had about three different ideas layered on top of a drum machine jam, and the Ortis Cinematic Universe returns with a third installment in Ortis Grind. This missed the cut for Bear but it gave me a head start for this collection..Part of the song recurs elsewhere in the album, can you find out where?

Anyway, that's another album done. Thank you for listening.

Grudnuk Creations cat no GRUD014

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released December 5, 2022

Words and music - Graham Freeman

AI vocal engine: Dreamtonics Synthesizer V
Voice banks: Kevin, Solaria, Eleanor Forte

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I just do... whatever. Started with mod trackers (as a tool, not an aesthetic) but moved a long way beyond.

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