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Both Hills Now - feat. Roger Whittaker & The Corvid Colliery Band

by bramble rambles

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A walk with Kevin up Ladder Hill, Derbyshire, 27th January 2020.

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Here we rest upon a wall
And looking back on New Mills
All the town has changed
As if it's small
And somehow lower down

You say it's amazing too
How new perspectives change the view
Of every other hillside too
I said like Both Sides Now

But you gazed out and carried on
"That's just like life, how we look on ourselves
It should be in a song"
Again, that's Both Sides Now

I think I've mentioned Both Times Now
That it exists
That it's called Clouds
Or more correctly Both Sides Now
(Clouds was the name of the album)

We've looked at town from Both Hills Now
From Lantern Pike
And the other Lantern Pike
The one that's really Chinley Churn
That you call Lantern Pike
(Because that's where that hill normally is
And I wonder if your type of detournement will be the one to defeat capitalism)

We're on the edge of all three maps
Freehand on the margin's tracks
But I can't seem to fold them back
My Dad would show me how

I've folded maps from Both Sides Now
From left to right
From up to down
The different clouds of knowing how
And doing so up a hill

Is that another metaphor?
Is your lunch packed?
Is that Mam Tor?
The squashed crisps of intelligence
There's lots of different types

Tired now, waiting in the dusk
Our tickets for a different bus
The driver shrugged
He wasn't fussed
He'd looked at routes that way

If there's only masks at all
Lets make stuff up about our walk
We found a park of dinosaurs
That live on Ladder Hill

There was a storm and some escaped
Attacking the tourists (but what if it was sabotage?)
And then we caught the 199
Someone should make it into a movie

It's different now
Looking down Union Road to Ladder Hill
Smaller again and somehow higher up
Walkers are still losing maps and sharing crisps
And the gate's still singing in the wind
Maybe it knows
There's no Yesterday
No Tomorrow, no Now, no Reality, no Sky, no Home
No Movies for Men
Only the public service channels from Freeview
Relayed from Winter Hill in one kilowatt
Of waves carrying bits (poetry?)
And if we could see them
There'd be more shapes and angles and distances
To make us feel stuff we can never really explain to anyone else
Except sometimes in art

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released April 30, 2020

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