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Doug Davis - Angelie

from Round 11, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This is the first Stonesy tune I've written in a while that I think might actually have some legs. I kinda like this one! I'd love to take another crack at the lyrics; they're hardly poetry. But I'll be busy most of the weekend, so I wanted to go ahead and get it in.

Anand asked for a song about freedom, and this is the inverse - a narrator that's locked into an obsession and can't find either relief or release. This is, in fact, a thinly-veiled metaphor for our relationship with the muse, with inspiration. Personally, I've had a very hard time finding my voice, lately, literally, and as a songwriter. One style that I love to work in and have received some encouragement for is this particular brand of post-Stones/Faces blooze-rock, which I love to play and sing but have a very hard time writing for. Paradoxically, I'm hoping that this song might just break me out of that difficulty. We'll see.

lyrics

long time missing
I can't tell the score
ever since I saw you
dancing at my door
why'd you have to come here
have to cast your spell?
did you know I'm buying
something I can't sell?

Angelie
why won't you linger?
I close my eyes to find you
leaving again
dance for me, with those
rings on your fingers
you break me down when you don't
let me in

you make it seem so easy
with your favors, free
but when you disappear
you steal the breath from me
cruel is the mistress
doesn't realize
how empty when there's
nothing left to harmonize

Angelie
why won't you linger?
I close my eyes to find you
leaving again
dance for me, with those
rings on your fingers
you break me down when you don't
let me in

did I have a prayer
or was it ever meant to be?
lost my simple freedoms
first I heard your melody
never far from fingertips
reaching for your hand
a million miles in spirit
from the paths that I had planned

Angelie
why won't you linger?
I close my eyes to find you
leaving again
dance for me, with those
rings on your fingers
you break me down when you don't
let me in

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from Round 11, Week 4, released July 11, 2016

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