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The Angels' Kiss

from Ersatzreal by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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THE ANGELS’ KISS
Children down on the subway
Riding the fast cars
Taking their lives in their hands
Out there under the streetlamps
Down on the corner
Holding their heads in their hands
And I know you won’t look at me
And I know you will never see
The heartbreak that I’m feeling now
I need to make my way somehow
But these eyes never make contact
Never see daylight
Never just glisten and smile
You don’t want to believe that
All this could be
That’s something that might drive you wild
But the angels turn their backs on me
Why can’t they see what I can see?
They could take me up and out of this
And save me with their angels’ kiss

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from Ersatzreal, released October 8, 2007

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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