Bobby Angel records his new original song “Wrong Side of a Dream.” It’s a complex tale of dreams imagined and dreams lost, but somehow – despite all – the dream living on.
Ugliest Forest
Words and music by Bobby Angel
Some people said it looked obscene. That it had all the wrong types of trees. Other people drove by it and didn’t notice it at all. The road was the only thing they saw. Rumor was it had hobo camp or three. Not exactly a nice place to be.
But if you listen closely you can hear the bird call.
It was the ugliest forest you ever saw
There was old two track that went to a foundation that somebody said used to be a service station. Long ago the owners up and left, and so grew back a secondary forest. Still see some fruit from the grove that in the light shine like gold.
Over time it grew thick and tall.
It was the ugliest forest you ever saw
Bears seemed to like it, at least one. He’d go in and play under the sun. Birds would fly in and land on a branch. They didn’t care it was the wrong type of plant Lots of mice, rabbits and squirrels and such. They liked the forest very much
Over time it grew thick and tall
It was the ugliest forest you ever saw
Then came the stakes and the neon tape that more or less sealed its fate. A week after that the machines revved the up and didn’t stop until everything was cut. Birds are gone except for some crows. And a dead bear by the side of the road.
It was about the ugliest forest you ever saw
But not anymore because it’s completely gone
You wouldn't believe it.
In the 1850s, a man named Aaron Cloud, one of the town’s first dreamers, raised a 160-foot wooden tower at the summit.
Let Your Light Shine Through
Words and music by Bobby Angel
In the world where we live
You have got to forgive
And let your love shine through
Theories abound how it all went down
And everybody runs to a side (and hides)
But when the truth is let loose it will ring like a proof
Of mathematical metaphysical resound
Refrain
Some things don’t change no matter how much you rearrange
That don’t demean what you’ve done (or do)
‘cause when the day it grows dark them angels they hark
haleluhia to the good news that you brang
Refrain
Whispered words too light to be heard
You know that they’re better left unsaid (and unheard)
Well don’t bother to listen, it ain’t nothing your missing
On that I give my word
Refrain, repeat
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