Song for the Day 28th april 2024

Fallen Angel by King Crimson from their 1974 album Red
Track listing
Side A
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Red" Robert Fripp 6:20
2. "Fallen Angel" Fripp, John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James 6:00
3. "One More Red Nightmare" Fripp, Wetton 7:07
Side B
No. Title Writer(s) Length
4. "Providence" David Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bill Bruford 8:08
5. "Starless" Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James 12:18

Personnel

King Crimson - production, arrangements

Robert Fripp - guitar, mellotron
John Wetton - bass, vocals
Bill Bruford - drums, percussion

Additional personnel

David Cross - violin on "Providence"
Mel Collins - soprano saxophone on "Starless"
Ian McDonald - alto saxophone on "One More Red Nightmare" and "Starless"
Mark Charig - cornet on "Fallen Angel",
Robin Miller - oboe on "Fallen Angel"
Uncredited musician - cello on "Red"
Uncredited musician - cello on "Starless"
George Chkiantz - recording, engineering
Rod Thear - recording, assistant engineering
Chris, Tex, Harvey and Peter Walmsley - equipment
John Kosh - cover
Gered Mankowitz - photography

Fallen Angel"

[Verse 1]
Tears of joy at the birth of a brother
Never alone from that time
Sixteen years through knife fights and danger
Strangely why his life, not mine?

[Refrain]
West-side skyline crying
Fallen angel dying
Risk a life to make a dime

[Verse 2]
Lifetimes spent on the streets of a city
Make us the people we are
Switchblade stings in one tenth of a moment
Better get back to the car

[Chorus]
Fallen angel
Fallen angel

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
Fallen angel
Fallen angel

[Refrain]
West-side skyline crying
Fallen angel dying
Life expiring in the

[Verse 3]
Snow white side streets of cold New York City
Stained with his blood, it all went wrong
Sick and tired, blue, wicked and wild
God only knows for how long

[Chorus]
Fallen angel
Fallen angel

Starless"

[Verse 1]
Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see

[Chorus]
Starless and
Bible black

[Verse 2]
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me

[Chorus]
Starless and
Bible black

[Verse 3]
Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that all yearns
To be

[Chorus]
Starless and
Bible black