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Mountain (For Change)

from Sistine Dreams by Alf Whitby

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I think this song is a bit at odds with the rest, but in a nice way. Its less than 2 and a half minutes, when normally my songs are close to 5.

I'm glad the record finishes with something quite up-lifting. It was recorded in free form, at least to start, until the marching band drums and strings take over.

I wrote this song after watching a couple I knew break up. I was single at the time, pretty keen for some substantial relationship in my life.

For Mountain, I wanted to put myself in their shoes and explore the intense nature of what they were going through. Mountaineering can be one of the most severe things someone can go through. Changeable weather, fatigue, elation, monotony maybe all play a part. It requires persistence, desire, preparation, strong mindedness, and maybe a bit of luck sometimes. There are a lot of parallels that can be made to the severity of falling in love and maintaining a relationship.

The lyrics reflect the irrationality that severe emotions can induce, and the exasperation that can come when you’ve worked at something for a long period of time. Most of all its about losing something, whether that be hope, or something else.

The mountain is a metaphor for something precarious. Some height that can be reached but also fallen from. Some symbol of journey and destination. Something to be both awed and feared. Something you might well find yourself clinging to.

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Love. Heaven on high.
You know I won’t change.
We’ve been here before.

Go, and leave me here
Time, our time is short,
Love, will be left behind,

This stone’s, the fabric of my bones.
The precipice I’ve clung to.
The momentary pause.

I want it all, your grandmothers throw.
The honeycomb pillow,
Your favourite bowl.

I hang on, for things to evolve,
But nothings that simple,
With structural faults.
That’s why loves the sacrificial stone,
The precipice I groaned to,
The hardest to leap off.

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from Sistine Dreams, released March 13, 2020

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Alf Whitby Manchester, UK

Alf Whitby is the alter ego of Manchester based songwriter Andrew Keaveney. New music coming in late 2022.

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