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P Kellach Waddle

SONG CYCLE: Neither Have Been Found; Elegies of Lost Youth and Lost Love-- First 3 songs of 9  Play

Emily Breedlove Soprano
Nikki Birdsong Piano

Recorded on 10/06/2013, uploaded on 03/26/2015

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

CYCLE written 1985-94 -- Live video of premiere   ---

Texts of FIRST THREE SONGS in  Cycle : All Texts By The Composer : 

 

1. Where Have All My Angels Gone?

Once I was God in my Heaven,
Flocks in white surrounding me.
But now I hark in the dark of night,
At The Twilight haunting me.
Live alone I must now, how to
return I know not how
to my life where tomorrow never came.
The hope and light have let me be,
and now the shackles of hate and fate are
forever binding me !!
My Youth is melting like the April snow
Now only green shows on life's bleak lawn
So now I plead with the unanswering rain,
Where have all my angels gone?
 
2. The Airport
They've Both Left
From Gate 4
Never to return
Never no More
Two Black Planes
have departed
with my Faith and Hope
as their passengers
The pilot he laughed,
with eerie glee..
I told you that youth
was not in infinite supply
so I stare at the gloomy runway
Hang my head
And cry.
I want to hide my pain unseen
But then someone asks,
“Wasn't that your pride on the three-thirteen?”
“Yes,” I reply, with panged regret.
But no I beg, it can't happen yet!!
While the engine starts, inside the cockpit
skeletons creak and clack
As sobbingly I beg him to turn back!
But it’s gone, and I’ve lost my chance
As I lonely watch,
The searchlights dance.
3. What Things Shattered 
The showcase door is open
And the debris, is all over
My shattered life
My destroyed youth
My wasted passion
And my lie-based truth
Broken Remnants
Shattered delusions
From a mirage-filled curio
That lay on a shell-shocked floor
Though your presence still lingers
All I am left with are shards of memories...
And What Things Shattered.