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folk rock, Fleetwood Mac, mystical, Stevie Nicks, driving song, seventies soft rock - The Vigil

from The Vigil by Alice Bierhorst

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The passage of time and the power of music to help us slip away into the eternal.

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The Vigil
©2007 Alice Bierhorst/BMI

Do you delight in open water
Do you delight in scattered fortune
Keeping a vigil
So far from home

All of the answers tucked in corners
Between the stones, making mortar
Keeping a vigil
So far from home

Now the room is empty
But the band plays on
Rolling back the years
Til the break of dawn

This stretch of road, a charcoal ribbon
Always at night thoughts come unbidden
Keeping a vigil
So far from home

Now the room is empty
But the band plays on
Rolling back the years
Til the break of dawn
Now the singer
Has become the song
It all falls away
Then the moment's gone
The moment's gone

Now the room is empty
But the band plays on
Rolling back the years
Til the break of dawn
Now the singer
Has become the song
It all falls away
Then the moment's gone
The moment's gone

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from The Vigil, released December 12, 2007

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Alice Bierhorst New York, New York

Alice Bierhorst is a visionary singer and songmaker. Ethereal and earthy, tender and tough, her music draws upon classical music, 60's and 70's pop, roots rock, Tin Pan Alley, and dreamy indie folk. Debussy, Kate Bush, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Nick Drake, Brian Wilson, Judee Sill in the mix. A voice clear and plaintive, airy and grounded, full of wonder, tenderness and love. ... more

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