The Angel of America

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Lyrics: N.B.Aldrich, Duane Ingalls, Greg Welter (1983)
Music: Duane Ingalls (c. 1988)
Current realization: Aldrich//Ingalls (2022)

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The table tips as the weight intends
The night of the beast relaxing
Nobody noticed the music end
Nobody moved to correct him

As a half-moon poised on the stiffening drifts
Caught the trees in their shame
A fire rose up in the cold
A voice cried nobody came

I swear I hear the Angel of America

A man divides in the silver light
And falls with his old delusions
Someone will wait til the man is down
Someone is there to replace him

As he fades to sleep in a winter shroud
Borne to beauty unknown
A star falls out of the sky
And everyone is perfectly alone

I swear I hear the Angel of America

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released August 29, 2022
N.B.Aldrich - MIDI programming
Duane Ingalls - vocals
Leslie Ross - bassoon
Steve Norton - clarinets
Anna Dembska and the Schoodic Summer Chorus Singers - vocals
the Toad Hall Men's Chorus - vocals

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SPU Sedgwick, Maine

SPU is a collection of various music and sound projects.
It was originally founded by Duane Ingalls and N.B.Aldrich in the early 1970s as an exploratory collaboration.

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