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The Ghost of a Song

from OPHELIA album by Angeline Morrison

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If the beloved is the song, then this song is the ghost of the beloved. The mysterious and elusive beloved, who visits in dreams and who leaves behind no trace... Upon waking, like Caliban, you cry to dream again.

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O you come to me at night, like the ghost of a song,
But I can't come out to meet you if the melody is wrong.
Feel you slipping through my fingers with the gathering dawn,
But I can't come out to meet you in a song.

How I long for all the nights when you're there in my dreams,
There's a haven in the darkness, my imagination sings
Of this shining, sweet illusion that the melody's strong.
But I can't come out to meet you in a song.

Here's the lasting part of this:
Something in my heart's amiss.
Dark clouds gathering, I know there's something wrong,
O I hear your secret call to me;
Come rest here in the core of me,
Weaving through the darkness
Before the night is gone.

Still you come to me at night, like a glimmering star
And I always dream about you, and the stars don't seem that far.
Then you smile, and golden light falls on everything.
And you're the sweetest song that I could sing.

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from OPHELIA album, released February 2, 2024
Songwriting, vocals, guitar, melodica - Angeline Morrison.
Recorded, mixed & produced by Angeline Morrison.

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"Bewitching and otherworldly... Morrison's voice is eerily confiding, strangely present, insistent even at its quietest" Folk Radio UK.

Believing in the beauty of sad songs, weaving folk, soul and beat sounds of the '60s into a tapestry of the human heart. Homespun sounds that reside in a nostalgic universe.

"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing. ... more

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