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[Mark Kirby] Both the artist and this writer agree that the soulful "Farewell Angel," a song that is popular on Africa Radio 1 and whose video is in heavy rotation on Europe 2 TV, is our favorite on the album. The piece is totally stripped down to the singer/songwriter's essence of guitar and voice. "It was written the morning of my father's funeral," he states. With lyrics such as "I've got no angel to watch over me / I got no prayers to be heard / who listens anymore" and "In my bed I curl up / like the boy I used to be" he captures the grief of loss without weeping and wailing, the quiet sadness of how these moments play out beyond the weeping and wailing.

Sun has set
No candles will burn tonight
Sky is dark
No stars bring hope tonight
Shut my eyes
To escape my loneliness
Scream my pain out
No one hears
In a room full of tears
I got no angel
To watch over me
I got no prayers
To be heard
Who listens anymore?

In my bed
I curled up like the boy I used to be
Try to hear
Your steps there's only silence
Break from time to time
By my mother's cries
I shiver
Spread too thin to cover

I got no angel
To watch over me
I got no prayers
To be heard
Who listens anymore?

You must be walking
This tunnel of everlasting life
Rays of light
Welcome you and warm you up
Will I ever
See you (and) touch you again
I got to believe it
I need to believe this
To go on

I got no angel
To watch over me
I got no prayers
To be heard
Who listens anymore?

Who listens?
Who listens?
Now...
When your angel is gone
Who listens?
Who listens?
Now...
That my Father's gone
Now that my dad is gone...

In loving memory of my Father "Papa Biou